Does anyone have a copy of SaidenStorm's 3DS Max animation tutorials?

[dreamCloud]

Was called "Oblivion 3DSMax Animation Tutorial"

Used to be located at http://saidenstorm.googlepages.com/oblivion3dsmaxanimationtutorial

But that page has been down forever and isn't on the Wayback Machine (it has 3 snapshots of a dead referral page 302 response at crawl time error). My local copy got corrupted and I really need the part on the particles set up for something I'm doing... although having the whole thing would be preferable as I can't remember all the setup steps for working in Max to get a proper export with the Civ4 tools anyways.

[AndalayBay]

I was looking for those too. I even sent a note to saiden but never got a reply. Not helpful, but would love to see a reply.

[dreamCloud]

Thanks Andalay. I managed to extract (most of) the text from the corrupted files at least, but without the images that went with them I'm kind of treading water as the obscure references to the UI for 3DS Max 8 is... not great to navigate for someone who grew up on Blender.

I did manage to at least get an animation working in 3DS Max itself, but can't figure out how to export it correctly based on that text alone. Keep getting errors. The only reason I was able to get that far was due to some old 3DS Max 8 videos from a class I found up on VEOH before that site dies (it's getting pulled down... we are losing soo much information recently )

Feels like I hit another dead end. I had created several particle systems in NifSkope based on that old 8 hour long Morrowind tutorial video still floating around (which is a suffering I do not wish on anyone) and tried to change the .nifs around to Oblivion's formats based on existing .nifs in the game. I ended up getting ctd after ctd and with no error messaging to tell me what went wrong I figured I'd try the 3DS Max route. Took a very long time to find a copy of 8 to work with the civ IV exporter which apparently is the only way to get working particle animations from it.

[AndalayBay]

For particle stuff, you might try contacting Vacuity.

[dreamCloud]

Ah ok I sent them a DM. Hopefully they can point me in the right direction.

[AndalayBay]

@dreamCloud Here's an animation tutorial for Fallout 4 that I just discovered. Much newer game, but it has links to lots of other tutorials, so perhaps there's something in that collection that could help?

[dreamCloud]

Oh? Nice! I'll download that and have a look through it over the next couple of days.

[AndalayBay]

Hope it helps!