making miniguns use attackspin2.kf animation (flamethrower) without disabling barrel rotation animation?

[sjohnson89]

so i felt tired of this stupid spinal curve when my character start shooting, and i decided to use flamethrower animation in the geck. everything looks okay, but the rotating barrel animation stops working. is there a way for me to prevent getting this weird looking stance without interfering with the barrel animation?

[Nightstrom]

Have you found a fix yet? I'm interested in this as well.

[sjohnson89]

nope! sorry

 

although i realized i could have given a more detailed description

 

quote from another message i sent today

 

for example this is how a character fires a gatling laser

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/120/images/thumbnails/22414-3-1485743757.jpg

but when we switch to minigun animation this happens

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/130/images/thumbnails/59690-3-1436589408.jpg

(spinal injury!)

so if i change the setting in geck everything works but the barrel of minigun stops rotating

[KiCHo666]

That's because that particular animation doesn't have rotating animation. Barrel rotation is tied to the attack animation.

[sjohnson89]

well thats a start i didnt know that so thank you

 

is there a way to prevent that leaning thing? i'm 100% fine with using attackspin2 or attackloop as the new animation

Edited July 6, 2018 by sjohnson89

[hitman47101]

Hey, not sure if you're still looking for this but here's the Flamer attack (2hhattackspin2) with the Minigun barrel rotating.

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ob_X-RAvR-tjHnmYF-BEhaA167xS0Hlf

 

The Flamer attack anims have no spin-up of course but if you're ok with that it should work fine.

 

Cheers

[sjohnson89]

HOLY s#*! THE KING OF ANIMATIONS IS HERE!!! thank you for honoring me

 

thank you mister, but seriously, THANK YOU. sometimes words cant describe our feelings. i'm grateful for you taking time to fulfill a guy's request. this weird curve always bothered me but thanks to you its gone! many thanks

 

the animation seems to be working fine, i tested it with 2 different miniguns.

 

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/6809552-is-it-possible-to-make-miniguns-barrel-animation-faster-its-rotating-too-slow/

 

in this thread we were discussing the possibility of such thing - since i found you here i hope you dont mind me asking but, is it possible?

 

have a good day

[hitman47101]

Haha no problem man, glad I could help. :)

 

Regarding speeding up the rotation, sure that's possible. At the moment the Minigun barrel takes 4 frames to do a full rotation, just making it complete that rotation in 3 or less frames instead would speed it up. I did the Flamer attack edit in Nifskope but it would be a lot easier in Blender or Max, I just don't have the tools installed at the moment.

[sjohnson89]

sweet! i'll make sure to copy this answer in the other thread, glad to hear that its doable. another follow forum user said that rotation was baked into attackspin.kf, do you think if we speed it up there will be any problems?

[hitman47101]

Nah there shouldn't be any problems, you can edit stuff in .kf files as much as you want as long as the start and stop times remain the same. So if you edit the rotation keys for the Minigun barrel (##MinigunBarrel) in the 2hhattackspin.kf just make sure the first keys time is 0 and the end keys time is 1.333333, that being the length of the anim, Otherwise the game will lock up and crash when the anim ends.

 

I hope that makes some sense, its been a really long time since I've thought about this stuff.

 

Cheers :)