Horse animations

[Barstar]

Horses were used in warfare because they are great fighters even without a rider, giving the horse models a "stomp" animation (horses fight by stomping their front legs on the enemy) in combat and a proper canter animation during movement will improve the atmosphere of the game significantly.

Minor request of sorts (I'm sure it's been mentioned by the team too), let's hear your thoughts on things.

[historic_bruno]

Horses are due to be remodeled and animated, but adding missing animations is higher priority.

[historic_bruno]

you have a list o order to fix or improved the animation?

Soon

[zoot]

Horses were used in warfare because they are great fighters even without a rider, giving the horse models a "stomp" animation (horses fight by stomping their front legs on the enemy) in combat and a proper canter animation during movement will improve the atmosphere of the game significantly.

That would be so *awsum*. Does the game engine have all the functionality to support this? What would some of the requirements be for these types of animation?

[Wijitmaker]

Horses are due to be remodeled and animated, but adding missing animations is higher priority.

Are there .dae files for the horses yet or are they still .pmd/.psa files? If so, I'd like to get those exported as .dae files. Making a horse stomping animation wouldn't be to difficult with the existing models. Adding more geometry to the existing models would be easy as well.

[majapahit]

Add some skills to mounted hero so they can have a nice animated pose before battle.

[Shield Bearer]

I made a new horse model. It can be used if somebody is willing to texture it

[wraitii]

Looks like Blender rendering... I can give it a shot if you send me the .blend.

[D.U.P.A.]

I hope we'll see horses running. Overall all units could be a bit faster (except siege).

[historic_bruno]

Are there .dae files for the horses yet or are they still .pmd/.psa files? If so, I'd like to get those exported as .dae files. Making a horse stomping animation wouldn't be to difficult with the existing models. Adding more geometry to the existing models would be easy as well.

AFAIK they all use horse.pmd. It can't be converted to a proper DAE because there's no skeleton data (it was exported directly from Max? to PMD/PSA). There's a bunch of horse .max files in art SVN though.

I think Amish's new model is a big improvement though

[Shield Bearer]

Looks like Blender rendering... I can give it a shot if you send me the .blend.

Here ya go

fuana_horse0AD.zip

[majapahit]

Zebra & unicorn please

[wraitii]

BTW, I've given a shot at this but it wasn't so good, so I've restarted slightly the other day but I've been busy with the water stuff so if somebody else wants to give a go at texturing it, I'm OK with it