Hi all,

Ive been yanking my hair for weeks trying to fathom how to get animation working ingame alongside sufficient collision models and havent had any joy. What I'm looking for is a good tutorial on very simple animations with models that have been developed using 3DS Max.

Any ideas would be massively appreciated as always

go to saidenstorms googlepages. there is both a collision and animation tutorial for oblivion.

http://sites.google.com/site/saidenstorm/oblivion3dsmaxanimationtutorial Its written for Oblivion but the games are nearly identical in the process to get working activators.

I believe this will also be of http://sites.google.com/site/saidenstorm/oblivionandfallout33dsmaxcollisiontutori

Cheers Saiden man Seems a little complicated, but I'll get my head around it!

Question; the primitives set up in the tutorial, how do I relate the steps to my own personal models? This has befuddled me quite a bit :S

not sure what you are asking.
If your model is close to being a box, just go with a box primitive. If its roughly a sphere, go with a sphere. if it is not close to a standard primitive, use a Mopp or convex shape depending on what you want it to do havok wise in game.

Well it's a pretty complexed static made up of a fairly squashed spherical shape at the bottom, and cylinder towards the top/middle.

just make a really low poly mesh that is a squashed sphere and cylinder at the top then. if its just a static, then use Mopp.

I think I get the gist... I assume Im making the low-poly 'shell' of my model from the primitives Saiden's explained about in his tutorial, then I'm scaling it to fit my model?

a collision mesh is exactly the same as any other poly/mesh object.

all you do is add the bhkrigidbodymodifier and it'll be converted to a collision object at export. you could just use clone of your finished mesh as the collision if you wanted.

or you could build it solely out of a collection of regular primitives like you think i suggest.

Now THAT seems a little simpler than I first though... Ill effectively skip the first few steps regarding the primitives, clone my mesh and go forward from there.