General Question UMMU mesh animation

[dumbo2007]

Can the UMMU mesh for an astronaut be animated to show walking or holding objects etc ? Has any one tried it and how much of programming does it take ....does it require setting up animation sequences for each mesh component....or is it just not possible ?

 

[Woo482]

I'd say its almost impossible to animate the UMMUs realistically.

 

[Kriss]

Would be cool if we could play better with the ummus; holding weapons, fighting aliens, taking up rock samples, holding a hammer, etc..

 

[garyw]

They can hold objects, rock samples, etc. UMMU's have the ability to grapple objects so all they need is something to grapple!

 

[Kaito]

holding weapons, fighting aliens

Yeah, because orbiter totally has this incorporated in it...

 

[dansteph]

This should have to be almost professionnaly done. Mean month to do a skin mesh api which would probably have a big performance impact and may not give the expected result.

Else one can do a basic motion with Orbiter animation but ihmo this would only look funny. Wasting month to get playmobile animation... well.

Sometime imagination is better then badly done effect.

Dan

 

[T.Neo]

Yeah, because orbiter totally has this incorporated in it...

There are people working on addons to do that though.