cryTools: AnimTools: Weapon Set-Up

How to set up weapons in the main dialogs Misc rollout

This tutorial describes how to set up weaons and offsets and how to maintain them.

In this example I choosed a rifle and opened a character max file with the weapon in it.

led-yellow 1. Open the dialog and hit Edit Entries:

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led-yellow 2. A dialog should pop up. In the list, double click in an empty line to add a weapon:

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led-yellow 3. In the next window you must select the model of the weapon you want to add:

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led-yellow 4. After this another window pops up where to choose the model to get the offset from (for weapons, normally the hand):

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led-yellow 5. Now the weapon should be in the list. To maintain them, double click on the line with the weapon:

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led-yellow 6. A new dialog pops up where the entries can be edited. In this example, I changed the name (displayed in the drop down list) and the external file reference (used to automatically set up the specific weapon depending on the file name i.e. combat_run_rifle_forward => rifle)

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led-yellow 7. After saving, the changed should be visible in the list:

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led-yellow 8. When the list is saved, the new entry is available in the drop down list:

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