If you look at the image, you can see what time it is :rolleyes: I got bored and decided to start playing around with the Blender Game Engine again. I started designing low poly characters to use to make a simple 3rd-person RPG style template. I’ll finish him up sometime and slap some nice textures on him, but what I’m more interested in is getting him to walk around using the directional keys (WSAD would even work). Anyone got any links or tips to achieving this? I know how to rig so that’s not a problem, but I’m not sure how to setup the actions so that when WKEY is pressed the character will run forward, SKEY will make him run backwards, etc. I’ll post more as he progresses.
Hey, BrianH!
Cool name! (I am also a BrianH:) ) Good stuff going there! To make your character move:
First, create an empty as your base object (this one will be the moving/dynamic object). You know this part.
Next, you’ll have to rig the character with an armature set-up, using vertex groups or something similar. Now, animate the armature with different walking/running movements for different directions. In your set-up, have the wsad sensors (on your empty) trigger the ‘action’ actuators (on your armature) that store the different animations.
Parent the armature to the empty, time the animation with the speed of your empty and you’re done!
I’ve got a silly little unfinished game that demonstrates this if you don’t understand what I just outlined. Just ask!
Thanks, I’m working on rigging him at the moment, and then I’ll work on unwrapping him and get some sweet textures on him. Thanks for the tutorial, I’ll have to see what I can come up with. Maybe I’ll end up making a whole RPG from him, I dunno. Time will tell. Again, thanks for the help and the crits, most welcome.
Ok, I got him fully rigged for a simple walkcycle, and following the tutorial I made a simple walkcycle for the action, but I cannot get the action to play when W is pressed. I have an empty controlling the WSAD and DLoc movement of the character, and the mesh is parented to the empty. I had to setup the logic bricks on the Armature to be able to add the W control to play the Action, because there is no option for Action when I tried applying it to the Empty. When I press W, the character moves, but the action doesn’t play. I tried deleting the DLoc bricks from the Empty and then it just simply wouldn’t do anything. Any ideas how to fix this and get the character to move and play the action at the same time?
Maybe you are trying to set up the action brick while having the empty selected? You’ll need to have the action bricks on your armature. That’s the only thing I can think you’re doing wrong.
I’ve even tried removing the W action brick from the Empty and applying it to the armature, so the Empty has no reason to interact with the WKEY and the armature has both Motion and Action bricks applied to it, and it still doesn’t work.
Well, everything looks shipshape to me. This is more of an optimization thing really, but it may be easier for you if you select the “CharArm” and the “CharEmpty” simultaneously, and instead of having a sensor and controller on “CharArm”, just wire your “cont” controller on the “CharEmpty” to the “WalkCycle” actuator on your “CharArm”
Hey, Your Actions look good and all, but what type of character would that “thing” be used for. In my opinion ( which you did not ask for) it looks like a nerdy kid with glasses. I would name him dexter and the only action would be getting punched in the face. That was mean :o But what kind of character is it
Have you tried not making the armature a dynamic actor?
I used the walkcycle tut but found there was an issue with clashing boundaries, I solved this by not making the armature or skin and ‘actor’ or ‘dymanic’
