Problems with animation and game engine

Hi

I am having a few problems with a system that I am trying to make, the idea being that a animation will be doing its thing and the viewer can walk around and vary the speed that the animation runs at.

The animation part is going fine - well kind of - but when I try to use the game engine part I am running into a few problems.

Firstly when I hit P to go into the game engine it takes forever - probably more to do with my out of date GC - and when it finally goes into the game engine the screen is simply grey (no object nothing). I tried a earlier version before I added the armatures and it runs fine, any suggestions or insights would be nice.

The other problem I am having is that due to my knowledge being approx zero, does anyone know of any good tutorials that tell you how to make the animation run in game engine mode, and how to create mouse pointers that move - I managed to make it move left (well kind of) but when I tried to add another direction it kind of died on me.

Any help would be great

Post a .blend file.

In one of the newer versions of blender (I think 2.4) the armature engine was disabled in the game engine. I noticed this after trying to make games w/ armatures but nothing would show up. The latest version of blender (2.41) has the armature engine rebuilt into it so if you try that you shouldn’t have any more problems:D

excellent thanks I will try to download 2.4.1.

Dont suppose anyone knows of any good tutorials for running game engine animations, or setting up menus?

Old, but maybe useful

http://otothecleaner.free.fr/tutorials/LittleOTO/littleoto1/otolittle1.html
Bye