First off thank you Enma you saved us a lot of time in the long run. Secondly I emailed PlauGen Regrettably due to some medical issues everything he had planned has been delayed. But he is eager to get started on this project and he thinks he could start around May if he finds the time.

Apologies for the double post but I feel like this requires some attention. Unless people are willing to wait for PlauGen to animate the monster in may-ish we need someone who can rig in blender, or a animator who can work in 3ds max.

Moonsaber wrote:Apologies for the double post but I feel like this requires some attention. Unless people are willing to wait for PlauGen to animate the monster in may-ish we need someone who can rig in blender, or a animator who can work in 3ds max.

It won't count as double post if it's been a few days.

I could try my luck at animating this thing, but I'm not no where near that level of animation.

Moonsaber wrote:Apologies for the double post but I feel like this requires some attention. Unless people are willing to wait for PlauGen to animate the monster in may-ish we need someone who can rig in blender, or a animator who can work in 3ds max.

Damn it. I was going to score with the animation. It was going to be my only opportunity to actually help with the game's development. I really want to help with this game.

Wait so is the model available for download?

what program was it built inthis is all my fault

There are a few download links in this thread with different file types, and It was built in 3dsmax. Another thing if anyone wants to download the max version use this link for now on.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3n5oh6z7xr32ba9

For those trying to animate in Blender, the skeleton cannot be imported correctly, nor the vertex groups.
I have however simplified the textures including leaf alpha and packed it into a .blend file.
In short, it's everything you need to rig and animate.

I took a look in blender and had to clean up a couple things to get automatic rigging working.
Apparently bone heat sync failure is a cause of the mesh being unsymmetrical on both sides (if only I had known this for SCP-682 back then for Divinity..)

I had to divide the leaves, branches etc into a separate model instance and then fix a few kinks in the monsters body itself to get a rig working, but I'll have to re-add the leaves and branches back to the main bones as vertex groups and try to keep them from bending weird if when the main skeleton moves. Anyhow I like the inverse kinematics for the back legs (I'll probably have to just redo them for the front cause they pull at the main body too much).

Anyhow I'll try to do this later this week when I have time~ if you have a texture for the model I'd appreciate it so I can see if it looks OK.no promises on any of this

Mirocaine wrote:I took a look in blender and had to clean up a couple things to get automatic rigging working.

Spoiler

Apparently bone heat sync failure is a cause of the mesh being unsymmetrical on both sides (if only I had known this for SCP-682 back then for Divinity..)

I had to divide the leaves, branches etc into a separate model instance and then fix a few kinks in the monsters body itself to get a rig working, but I'll have to re-add the leaves and branches back to the main bones as vertex groups and try to keep them from bending weird if when the main skeleton moves. Anyhow I like the inverse kinematics for the back legs (I'll probably have to just redo them for the front cause they pull at the main body too much).

Anyhow I'll try to do this later this week when I have time~ if you have a texture for the model I'd appreciate it so I can see if it looks OK.no promises on any of this

Could you please send me the model? I'd like to try animating it.

Can you please send me this model with animations done to me when it gets finished? I need it for the Mirror's Edge CB and since .b3d files are impossible to convert.