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Just for fun, I have added bending knees and elbows to the default character model.



Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/86zb2i40686nh1k/split_limb.zip Licence WTFPL

To use, simply replace minetest/games/minetest_game/mods/default/models/character.x with the one contained in the archive.
File size is approx 50% bigger than the original. I'm not sure how much of an impact this could have on server performance.

Cheers!

whoa that's really cool :D

Looks good

50% bigger file for knees and elbows? No way man.

i really like. amazing! should be upstream. what about compatability with wieldview?

stu wrote:I'm not sure how much of an impact this could have on server performance.

Zero impact, animations are played client-side. They are decided server side but you didn't touch the Lua code that decides about animations.

Anyway, +1, why not? It adds quite a lot of possibilities for modders.

PilzAdam wrote:50% bigger file for knees and elbows? No way man.

It's not like we can't afford 50% bigger file for this, the model is only 302KB right now.

Minetest's way of sending the model is really slow, so every KB counts (if you dont have cURL set up for your server [most people dont have]).

Mito551 wrote:i really like. amazing! should be upstream. what about compatability with wieldview?

That would depend on whether it did get upstream or not. Perhaps I could add it to my modpack if not.

PilzAdam wrote:50% bigger file for knees and elbows? No way man.

Well consider there are 24 additional faces and 4 new bones, I say that was about right. Maybe this can be optimized further but I am still relatively new to blender.

Thank you all for your comments.

For whatever reason, this doesn't work for me - it just has no effect at all. Perhaps because I run a custom game (still, the 'default' mod is otherwise unmodified, save for no leaf decay)?

EDIT: turned out that jojoa1997's Peaceful NPC mod was supplying an extraneous copy of the default model, overriding the new one. Deleting that model file from my install of peaceful_npc was sufficient to fix the issue (plus the NPCs are using the new model automatically, too).

PilzAdam: you gotta push this to default - it's too good not to.

Same here VanessaE but whats Make it to, official on 4.7 since we need great new Features. New is always good.

Look's great! Does minecraft have moving knees and elbows with players? if not, this is a brand new feature!

Now all, we need is Actually Seating down for some stuff.

Btw Josh I think only on The Videos they do...

Hey if you can Stu try make Psy Dance :) then we have a Minetest Psy.

Minetest Style!
Oh and is there a limt how big a model can be on, Minetest?

This looks awesome!

I have made a slight modification to the dig animation and added a license.txt to the zip. The download link has been updated in the top post.

VanessaE wrote:turned out that jojoa1997's Peaceful NPC mod was supplying an extraneous copy of the default model, overriding the new one. Deleting that model file from my install of peaceful_npc was sufficient to fix the issue (plus the NPCs are using the new model automatically, too).

jojoa1997, that could be what is breaking wieldview for you too!

Edit: But then maybe not..

Do, Minetest use Sync Animations?

stu wrote:I have made a slight modification to the dig animation and added a license.txt to the zip. The download link has been updated in the top post.

VanessaE wrote:turned out that jojoa1997's Peaceful NPC mod was supplying an extraneous copy of the default model, overriding the new one. Deleting that model file from my install of peaceful_npc was sufficient to fix the issue (plus the NPCs are using the new model automatically, too).

jojoa1997, that could be what is breaking wieldview for you too!

Edit: But then maybe not..

it was fixed for some reason.

does anyone have this on their server? I want to see what it looks like.

I must say, this is a step forward for the player model. Could you add a neck sometime and make the head tilt and turn?

I saw this in action in my singleplayer game with the peaceful_npcs mod. It looks pretty good.

I tried it on my server, but it didn't work.

12Me21: make sure you don't have any other mods installed that redefine the player model, or which include a copy of the old one under the same filename. Older versions of peaceful_npc did that, which caused all players, NPCs, etc. that use the player model to use the included copy instead of stu's new one.

I expect that that armor mod with the visible wielded items would do the same thing.

I don't have any mods that have player models in them.

What mods do you have installed?

stu wrote:Just for fun, I have added bending knees and elbows to the default character model.



Download: http://ompldr.org/vaTh5eQ/model.zip Licence WTFPL

To use, simply replace common/mods/default/models/character.x with the one contained in the archive.
File size is approx 50% bigger than the original. I'm not sure how much of an impact this could have on server performance.

Cheers!

i've tried something similar some time ago, but I never finished it, oh well...
here http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=19952#p19952

You have very good modeling skills, Melkor. Very impressive feat with the eyes and the mouth. Maybe one day Minetest's player model will have such features.

VanessaE wrote:What mods do you have installed?

default
wool
dye
bucket
doors
fire
screwdriver (I think)
stairs
vessels
wool
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farming
mesecons
locked signs
money
protection
craft_guide
and a couple of mods that I made and didn't post.

I'm pretty sure it'd not caused by a mod, though

If you are still seeing the original model then you either put it in the wrong place or some mod is overriding the default model. My wieldview mod, for example would be guilty of that, as would some npc mods by unnecessarily including a copy of character.x

Melkor: Cool models, I really like the idea of the outer skin for armor.

The changes are subtle but nice.

inocudom and stu: Thank you!