Argument names for Ground units

[jib]

When animating a 3d model does the name for the argument need to be specific? I thought I have animated my new gun turret correctly but but the animation doesnt show on arg 0 or arg 1 in them model viewer.

 

Here is how I have it setup

 

in the toutrarial it says select argBased Rotation, but I didn't have that in my version of 3ds max so I selected arg based float

 

 

 

I have tried it on arg 0 and arg 1

 

I have found a list of all the arg values here:

http://www.virtualblueangels.com/ftpmain_members/beaker/tutorials_and_ref/LOFC_Arguments_Lists.zip

 

but they do not tell you what names to use.

in this tutorail he seems to you very specific names: http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=56033&d=1314802370

[Dimebag]

Hi jib,

 

I have a feeling you are not clicking on the right thing in the assign controller window before you hit the assign controller button. If you want an argbased rotation, you should highlight 'Rotation : Euler XYZ' in the window on the far right, then click the assign controller button above - this should then bring up 'argbased rotation' in the list.

 

From there you create your keys and adjust the x y or z rotation properties.

 

That is how I do it, hope it helps.

[jib]

Thanks Dimebag that fixed it.

 

The animation is now working in the model viewer but but it only spins the turret 360 degrees when I change the argument value between 0 to 1 and doesn't do anything with argument values 0 to -1.

 

how do I set it up in 3ds max so it spins from -1 to 1 argument values?

[jib]

I figured it out.

I setup the time in max to run from -100 to +100 and the argument now works fro -1 to 1