Hello, I am creating anims for a weapon in Maya. I followed Rollon's tutorial to set up the gun rigging, and exported an animated model. I got the idle animation working (it was too far forward but worked first time, then I moved it back) and tried to make a simple firing animation. I re-compiled both animations after editing, even deleting the old xanims out of all places including the old .IWD. However, where the model is stayed the same even though I moved the weapon and the arms back in Maya using the shoulder controllers and the gun with Gun_CTR. Alongside this, the fire animation makes the game flip out and it puts polygons all over the screen.

I have re-rigged the model three or four times, alongside exporting the animated model and the actual gun model.
I want to know what I have done wrong.
The maya file is available upon request.

One thing that may be causing it is that j_gun is rotated 90 degrees so it faces forward, but I have tried compiling on an animated model with and without the rotation, no dice. I feel that because of the relative type of the animation this would cause the problem however as said i tried without it being rotated, no change.

No screenshot because when the firing animation is played all that happens is you see the green sleeve texture from the default viewhands on the entire screen.

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here's my notes on Rollon's video:

Animated Model:
DefMesh:Skeleton > Select Set Members. Select J_GUN & child joints, tag_view, select a mesh then export xmodel.[/li][/list]

Exporting Animations:
DefMesh:Skeleton > Select Set Members, Select J_GUN and it's child joints, then export.

ADS Animations:
Export tag_view and tag_torso.

Model I can confirm was exported correctly, working perfectly on another gun's anims.

Assman Settings:
Anims:
Use bones unchecked. Looping unchecked except for proper animations. Type set to relative. Using animated model as the model.

Sound are working.

I'm guessing the option for gun position, rotation etc. while sprinting or walking is set too far forward in weapon file. I forgot the option names but in ugx weapon editor you can them easily.

I'm guessing the option for gun position, rotation etc. while sprinting or walking is set too far forward in weapon file. I forgot the option names but in ugx weapon editor you can them easily.

The problem is no matter where I move it in maya it never changes. I'd assume it would be linked to tag_view instead of j_gun, but I could be mistaken since the anims are relative. I can fix that though, thanks. Now just for the other ones.

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Exporting Animations:
DefMesh:Skeleton > Select Set Members, Select J_GUN and it's child joints, then export.

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Select "tag_torso/tag_cambone" and thier hierarchies for exporting non ads anims 

Select "tag_torso/tag_cambone" and thier hierarchies for exporting non ads anims 

Thanks, got around to doing this and it did the trick.

I wish Rollon would have written something, I hate videos because they are much harder to find specific information in while a guide is as easy as regular reading.

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Thanks, got around to doing this and it did the trick.

I wish Rollon would have written something, I have videos because they are much harder to find specific information in while a guide is as easy as regular reading.

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thats why i have it on bookmark

Theres usually only one or two things i need to refer back to it for, i know roughly where in the video, so i just skip to it

He explains "everything" you need, and in a very clear way ( except that ADS up and down infact do not need their own animated models, and i think non ads animations you can actually just export "all" joints, no need to be specific for those )