Mana Games

[MarianoEG]

hi manutoo, I heard around the forum that in your next TE4, next year, we can't make anims anymore? is this true?

[Timmy]

no

[Nigogu]

I didn't told you:
WE CAN'T MAKE ANIMS ANY MORE
I told you:
Maybe the current anims won't work on TE4

Read carefully next time....

[MarianoEG]

I didn't told you:
WE CAN'T MAKE ANIMS ANY MORE
I told you:
Maybe the current anims won't work on TE4

Read carefully next time....

where is the link about that conversation? the one you told me they mention the new anims for TE4?

[Timmy]

no

[MarianoEG]

what Timmy???

[manutoo]

It might have some issues with the animation format & handling as I'm planning to use Unity3D instead of my engine for TE4, but as I really don't want to lose existing anims, I'll do my best to find a way to make all that work..!

PS: TE4 won't probably be there next year

[Elias]

as I'm planning to use Unity3D instead of my engine for TE4, but as I really don't want to lose existing anims, I'll do my best to find a way to make all that work..!

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/391
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/645

PS: TE4 won't probably be there next year

[Gmanke]

Wow, new engine? O_o That could mean the whole game changes, aint it?

[fhoneill]

Unity engine looks intriguing. The step up would surely offer the prospect to add completely new player models for individual players and build 3D stadiums etc. Seems packed with a lot of features from what their website says.

[MarianoEG]

It might have some issues with the animation format & handling as I'm planning to use Unity3D instead of my engine for TE4, but as I really don't want to lose existing anims, I'll do my best to find a way to make all that work..!

I hope you can find that way, would be a really shame if we lose the anims
I dont understand too much, but if you change that engine, you need to change the anim program, right? cause if you cant use the existing anims, that means that your new engine and the 3ds Max 8 aren't compatible, you know what I mean?

PS: TE4 won't probably be there next year

lol, yes sorry, that was my bad I just threw a release date, but I was thinkin more in the anim part,that s the part that worries me

[manutoo]

Elias,
Unity already uses C# as language, so I won't use a high level script language (C# is already high level enough for me ).

Gmanke,
hopefully big changes in rendering, but not much in gameplay (at least none engine involved).

megyaem30,
Max can export anims as .Dxf files ; Unity can load these files, but not at runtime, and free version of Unity doesn't allow to create package with preprocessed anims (it requires paid version), so I'll have to see what I can do by myself...

[MarianoEG]

megyaem30,
Max can export anims as .Dxf files ; Unity can load these files, but not at runtime, and free version of Unity doesn't allow to create package with preprocessed anims (it requires paid version), so I'll have to see what I can do by myself...

thanks for the explanation... so, if this could happen, anims will have .dxf format instead of .anim right? so, we dont need to create new anims of the already existing ones, just export the biped in that format?

[Raz]

will we have TE4 this year?

[Nigogu]

will we have TE4 this year?

Please read

PS: TE4 won't probably be there next year