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Creating power animations in demofiles

Dark_Respite

By Dark_Respite,
Posted on: 2012-10-03 23:24 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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I'm working on a program to generate short demofiles showcasing a character. I've got most of what I want it to do figured out, but I can't find a way other than demorecording each power to generate power animations. For example, is there a way to figure out that activating "Blaster_Ranged.Fire_Blast.Flares" while flying generates the lines "FX Maintained 26804 CUSTOMIZEABLEPOWERS/FIREBLAST/FIREHANDS.FX 0" and "FX OneShot 26805 CUSTOMIZEABLEPOWERS/FIREBLAST/FLARES_ATTACK.FX 0", as well as a "MOV" line to get the character's hands into position?

 

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Originally Posted by Katie V View Post
I'm working on a program to generate short demofiles showcasing a character. I've got most of what I want it to do figured out, but I can't find a way other than demorecording each power to generate power animations. For example, is there a way to figure out that activating "Blaster_Ranged.Fire_Blast.Flares" while flying generates the lines "FX Maintained 26804 CUSTOMIZEABLEPOWERS/FIREBLAST/FIREHANDS.FX 0" and "FX OneShot 26805 CUSTOMIZEABLEPOWERS/FIREBLAST/FLARES_ATTACK.FX 0", as well as a "MOV" line to get the character's hands into position?
Unfortunately none that I know of.
You have to either demo record it or refer to a list of MOVs and such and find the right one.

We really should all work together to create a master list of not only MOVs and FX, but also, as you mention, what MOVs (animations) go with what Powers.

There is the CoH Codex, here: http://home.roadrunner.com/~scuzzbopper/
But, as far as I know, it's not been updated in a long while and wasn't complete at the time.

Not sure if anyone has been at work on larger, more comprehensive lists...

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I wish there were a larger, more comprehensive list, but the only resource I know is Scuzz's page.

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