Walkcycle generation tool

SSH · 05-16-2006, 02:27 AM

Thought I should let people using other AG development tools know about my walkcycle generator, which now does forward views and lets you edit the XML files it loads so you can modify the skeleton, etc to make back views, etc or any you like:

http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=26501

I hope someone can make use of it!

Hammerite · 05-18-2006, 09:39 AM

as i said on AGS, itd be cool if it did front and back views, but there easy to do anyway.
VERY USEFUL THANKS!!

Candle · 05-18-2006, 09:53 PM

It does.

MikaelS · 10-18-2007, 06:47 AM

Thought a little bump wouldn't hurt.

I just wanted to expres my gratitude; this program saved me a lot of time. Eventhough I'm not using AGS, images can be saved of each cycle part.

I really spent before this hours and hourse to draw animations and still couldn't get it right and it always looked somehow retarded. With this nifty little program, all I had to do was put my characters in little pieces ( cropped selections of body parts) and load them on this program and it did all the work for me and I'm very satisfied with the animation made with just few clicks. Thank you and highly recommended.

SSH · 10-19-2007, 12:48 AM

Thanks for the nice comments. I've been working on version 2.0 with an improved user interface, using the new AGS 3.0 beta editor so let me know if you'd like to beta test, or if you have any suggestions for improvement.

MikaelS · 10-19-2007, 01:01 AM

One suggestion pops my mind immediately. I faced one problem when I did this: the program desides to resize my pictures to adjust window size, so when I saved animations, they made the picture/s smaller than my original character portrait was. I noticed this when in started animate in game my walk, the character size goes down notable when he strarts to walk and I would have to resize every image separately to match the correct size and it's kinda pain.

Maybe there was something I didn't figure, but it would be easier if I could just keep the original image size instead of adjusting it to 320x240.

So I'm not sure if it is possible with this to animate bit larger characters and keep their size?

edit: and doesn't seem to work correctly on higher resolution, for instance when try to colour something it colours only every other pixel ( with smallest possible brush size), so it was probably meant for 320x240 strictly?

05-16-2006, 02:27 AM	#1
SSH Super Scottish Hero Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Edinburgh, UK Posts: 2,872	Walkcycle generation tool Thought I should let people using other AG development tools know about my walkcycle generator, which now does forward views and lets you edit the XML files it loads so you can modify the skeleton, etc to make back views, etc or any you like: http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=26501 I hope someone can make use of it! Share Share this post on Twitter Last edited by SSH; 05-19-2006 at 12:35 AM.

05-18-2006, 09:39 AM	#2
Hammerite kamikaze hummingbirds Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Over there. Posts: 7,946	as i said on AGS, itd be cool if it did front and back views, but there easy to do anyway. VERY USEFUL THANKS!! Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ The bin is a place for household rubbish, not beloved pets!

05-18-2006, 09:53 PM	#3
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10-18-2007, 06:47 AM	#4
MikaelS King Silly Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland Posts: 215	Thought a little bump wouldn't hurt. I just wanted to expres my gratitude; this program saved me a lot of time. Eventhough I'm not using AGS, images can be saved of each cycle part. I really spent before this hours and hourse to draw animations and still couldn't get it right and it always looked somehow retarded. With this nifty little program, all I had to do was put my characters in little pieces ( cropped selections of body parts) and load them on this program and it did all the work for me and I'm very satisfied with the animation made with just few clicks. Thank you and highly recommended. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Signature space to be filled later

10-19-2007, 12:48 AM	#5
SSH Super Scottish Hero Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Edinburgh, UK Posts: 2,872	Thanks for the nice comments. I've been working on version 2.0 with an improved user interface, using the new AGS 3.0 beta editor so let me know if you'd like to beta test, or if you have any suggestions for improvement. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ SSH's AGS blog "SSH is the best we have" - Pablo Bullian, IP Security expert

10-19-2007, 01:01 AM	#6
MikaelS King Silly Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland Posts: 215	One suggestion pops my mind immediately. I faced one problem when I did this: the program desides to resize my pictures to adjust window size, so when I saved animations, they made the picture/s smaller than my original character portrait was. I noticed this when in started animate in game my walk, the character size goes down notable when he strarts to walk and I would have to resize every image separately to match the correct size and it's kinda pain. Maybe there was something I didn't figure, but it would be easier if I could just keep the original image size instead of adjusting it to 320x240. So I'm not sure if it is possible with this to animate bit larger characters and keep their size? edit: and doesn't seem to work correctly on higher resolution, for instance when try to colour something it colours only every other pixel ( with smallest possible brush size), so it was probably meant for 320x240 strictly? Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Signature space to be filled later Last edited by MikaelS; 10-19-2007 at 01:06 AM.

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