Animations Editing Tutorial[s]

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HJGF:
Prone has a different animation. Stand and Crouch use the same animation, but Prone is a different ".baf" file.
Did you already make a separate prone animation? You can probably just copy your Stand animation and rename it to the prone animation, then use that.

Senshi:
Oh, so that's why I've never seen a tutorial on how to create weaon animations! Because they take hours to do...
I think you should upload it in segments. You know ... have two or three videos of one.
I'm a person who can sit on the computer for hours-on-end doins something like animating, so I could probably make some awesome animations.
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I've tried that but keeps without working anyways thanks :)
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How does it "not work"? Does your custom animation not show up at all? Or does it show the vanilla animation? Or none at all (body becomes "stuck" in last animation it was in in).

If you do crouch or prone animations, make sure to import the proper default animation first, so the upper body gets a good basic position (most important for 3p). If you use the "Stand" animation for being prone, you will break the spine of your soldier backwards...

Also note that "Prone" and "Lie" are used simultaneously in the naming of animations. Both mean the same.

And: If you import a new animation on top of a scene that already has an animation in it, be absolutely sure to check the sequence length. E.g. reload sequences usually take 150-200 frames. Now, if you import a "fire" animation that only takes 6 frames, the importer automatically sets your Max time frame to 0-5, as required for the new animation. Your old frames are not deleted, however! If you start animating now you will notice some mess after deleting the 6 visible default vanilla animation frames, as the later frames obviously still influence the mesh.
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In a draw animation I made it was the same and in a fire animation I tried the body got stucked.
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Hmm ... I've done that before, though. Just make a copy of the animation file, then rename it to the name of the prone animation. That's what I've done, and it worked just fine.
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Ive been trying that but keeps without working btw swaffy Ill have some time thsi weekend for your animations ;)
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I don't know how I can properly thank you for your effort, HJGF.
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