#3d max animate skin#

Now before we get going to the practice, I will talk a bit about the animation techniques and how things are classified. Dope Sheet: dope sheet, like the curve editor, is also a track viewer we will use this tool to add notes to our animations as well as visibility and other values.We will also use this later for making Global sequences, but maybe not in this tutorial. Curve Editor: The curve editor is a powerful tool which we will use to edit interpolation among keys in an easy manner.Assign Controller: Here we will reassign animation controllers to our objects.PRS Parameters: allow us to create and delete keys quickly, it will also set the type of which key we want to edit, either if itРїС—Р…s rotation, position or scale.WeРїС—Р…ll use it to change the way our keys will interpolate and act. Key Info: this rollout contains important information of our keys.ItРїС—Р…s quite useful to move from one animation to another. Add Time Tags: This little application allows us to mark our timeline.Key Button: Use this when you have Set Key on to place a key for the last action done.If we select an object and we right click the time slider, the 'create key tool' will appear, with it we can copy keys from one frame to another. Time Slider: with this tool, we'll be able to move from one frame to another without any trouble.Well now a bit more of theory before getting into action.

Maximize Viewport Toggle: Selfexplainative.

Reactor (max 5- up): reactor is a physics simulation engine, as good as it is, we won't use it in this tutorial.

Motion Panel: the motion panel has a lot of options to control the interpolation among the keys and how they interact in each bone.

We'll use dope sheet and curve editor later in this tutorial.

Graph Editor Toolbar: this contains all the graph editors.

Animation Toolbar: this toolbar contains many options like setting controllers, bone tools, IK Solvers, etc.

Time Slider: this tool is very important with it we'll be able to move from one frame to another without any trouble.

Set Key: by turning on this button, you will be able to set a key of the last transformation done, by clicking the Key Button (Left to Set Key, has a key icon).

Auto Key: by turning on this button, any transformation we do to our model will be recorded as a key in our frame bar.

You will use this to move from one animation to another, as well as configure the speed in which you will visualize your animation.

Time Configuration: With this tool, you can manipulate your scene's timing and settings.

All these have to do with animation, some will be used in this tutorial and others won't be used. The next thing that we will do is to learn a bit more from 3d studio max. However, don't worry too much about it, you can use any humanoid model for this tutorial). I assume you already know enough to do that, otherwise look for an import tutorial.

The first thing which we will do is to import the village kid into 3d studio max. We are going to reanimate the Village Kid from wc3. Don't use refresh or clean your internet temporary files. This tutorial may a bit heavy to load, I suggest you to enter and reenter the tutorial's thread until every image has loaded. I'll be looking into the tutorial constantly.

Whenever you get stuck, don't hesitate to post.

Section 3.2: Skinning using AT Skinning method.

#3d max animate skin#

Section 3.1: Skinning with Skin Modifier.

Skin your mesh correctly for warcraft 3 and starcraft 2.

Work with curve editors, trajectories and other 3dsmax animation related tools.

Produce basic and natural humanoid animations.

Some basic geometry and mathematical functions knowledge.

Basic knowledge on managing 3dsmax and it's interface.