I am currently animating things in Visual basic. Im looking for a program that is used for designing units that i can then animate in Visual Basic.
Example: I want a unit with like a sword up, half up and down, and body and arms etc.. in different positions.
I was looking for a program that could do this. Any ideas? And if this is in the wrong forum, please move. But i put it here because it is kind of Visual Basic related.
Thanks in Advance!
How about an imagebox with images just being swapped back and forth on a timer?
I think he wants a .gif image with a very long animation.
Then that's a photoshop discussion not a VB one.
Do what Blaze suggested.
I think what he wants is a program that he can actually design the "units" in, not a method to display them in VB.
I think you can do what you're trying to do using Milkshape 3D. It's a demo, but there's cracks for it everywhere (which I can't help you with here).
You can design a model in a 3d environment, then add a skeleton to it and pose it. Then just use it's "snapshot" feature to capture a 2D image of it.
example (I didn't bother with a skeleton/posing, but you should get the idea):
(http://img297.echo.cx/img297/5039/box15nf.png)
(http://img297.echo.cx/img297/9824/box22mf.png)
(http://img297.echo.cx/img297/1046/box38ed.png)
Then you can simply take the exported images, crop them, make a sprite sheet, blah blah blah, and still get a nice 3D look to them. HTH.
Thank-you Nico! Your the only one who read my question and helped :)
Blaze just told me how to animate it, which i know, not where to get a program to DESIGN it.
And the rest of you were just copying and not realy helping. But nevermind, Thanks nico!
Quote from: QwertyMonster on June 07, 2005, 09:41 AM
Thank-you Nico! Your the only one who read my question and helped :)
Blaze just told me how to animate it, which i know, not where to get a program to DESIGN it.
And the rest of you were just copying and not realy helping. But nevermind, Thanks nico!
Btw, your question was pretty much off-topic, since you weren't asking for how to do something in Visual Basic? :P