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Ok, Need some suggestions, Im making some meshes with anim8or for dink

October 16th 2002, 04:08 PM
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Do you have an idea for me?

Ive made a eggplant and a hand (tutorials)

and now I wanna make some nice beasts...
October 16th 2002, 08:48 PM
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Deadman
Peasant They/Them
 
Gee, Dink uses meshes?

I would say get something besides anim8tor if you can. I don't know, it might work fine with other programs, but it was totally unusable to me when I tried it for the sims.
October 17th 2002, 12:22 AM
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Binirit
Peasant She/Her
 
: Gee, Dink uses meshes?

: I would say get something besides anim8tor if you can.  I don't know, it might work fine with other programs, but it was totally unusable to me when I tried it for the sims.

Same goes for me. Any idea on what programme is real good for making neat animations?

October 17th 2002, 01:30 AM
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: : Gee, Dink uses meshes?

: : I would say get something besides anim8tor if you can.  I don't know, it might work fine with other programs, but it was totally unusable to me when I tried it for the sims.

: Same goes for me. Any idea on what programme is real good for making neat animations?

I've been using Anim8or to make a lot of good quality models with animations for my d-mod. Its a really good program with a high quality renderer. It doesn't have all the features Blender has, but the support is much better and many people have written apps (its source is in plain text) to greatly enhance its capablities. Check out the forum at anim8or.com ro see some of the awesome work that people are doing with anim8or.

As for theprofet's question about what to make, I'd suggest just starting out with some simple characters, get used to modeling your meshes so they'll animate in a realistic fashion, read as many tutorials as you can on character modeling and animation and the different approaches to it. Once you get the basics down, just use your imagine to create some interesting creatures. Anthropomorphic animals are always fun.

October 18th 2002, 04:53 PM
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Striker
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Daniel, there are clowns. 
: : Gee, Dink uses meshes?

: : I would say get something besides anim8tor if you can.  I don't know, it might work fine with other programs, but it was totally unusable to me when I tried it for the sims.

: Same goes for me. Any idea on what programme is real good for making neat animations?

Hey, Anim8or was NOT designed to make meshes to import into games, which is why you couldn't use it for the Sims. Ani8or was created to make movies and rendered still graphics, which can be turned into sprites for Dink.

If you want to try a free program that has the ability to import and export to and from a whole multitude of 3d games, try using Milkshape 3d:

http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ms3d/

So far, it's the best free program I've come across for that type of thing, but I would definitely not recommend it for making Dink sprites.
October 18th 2002, 07:11 PM
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Deadman
Peasant They/Them
 
Thanks, but after trying all the free and cheaper ones, I broke down and got 3DS Max