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Published: 2013-01-21 21:03:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 25917; Favourites: 190; Downloads: 424
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EDIT: New version which should work with the new pony models: [link]This is mainly for the SFM Ponies group to which I'm submitting a generic walk cycle .dmx for the pony models (Download: [link] ). It should work for any standard-size V3-or-below pony model. Feel free to use it for anything, no credit required, blah blah.
To use, save the .dmx in a SFM folder, right click on an animation set (it makes it easier if you deselect the rootTransform), Import animation, select the file you saved and position the model as you wish. Unlike sequences, importing .dmx animations overwrites pre-existing motion data so either copy that and paste it back after you've imported or import it first thing.
I'll probably have to update this once the new models are released, since they use different bone names that won't recognise this animation. Thankfully I won't have to redo the whole thing since I can just parent the bones of a new model to these and re-export the result.
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What animation program is this? i am hoping to become an animator and would like the help.
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This is Source Filmmaker
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Thanks!
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when i import the animation for my pony, the model disappear right after i click OK, what might be the problem?
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Make sure you've deselected Body->rootTransform before you import the animation. You can also look around for the manipulator handles to see where it's gone and move it back, but the first option is easier.
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Could anybody come up with a Filly Gallop animation loop, as in Sweetie Belle model size?
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It shouldn't be too difficult to translate the movement over. I think you'd need to import it on to a full-sized model, drag its animation set on to a filly model's animation set so the filly's bones are parented to the other's, then select only the rotation controls (none of the "pos" controls) of all the filly's bones and use the "Zero" procedural preset on them.
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ok i got it to work yay! but its legs wont move 
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Are you using the right model version? The newest models have "vn_" before their names, and they should use the .dmx from the first download link in the description. Others should use the second one, obviously.
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hmmm it just says ponyname.mdl not seeing any vn_ on them
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If the .dmx you're importing has "_new" at the end, that might be the problem. I don't know what else it could be, sorry.
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it doesnt say new but it says walkcycle2.dmx maybe thats the problem.. i might have downloaded the wrong file
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if you have the old model then change it to (imma use twilight for example) change from notepad or notepad++ "$modelname "twilightsparkle.mdl" to $modelname "VN_twilgihtsparkle.mdl" and "$cdmaterials "models\mlp\twilightsparkle\"
$cdmaterials "models\mlp\common\" toΒ $cdmaterials "models\VN_mlp\twilightsparkle\"
$cdmaterials "models\VN_mlp\common\", oh and if you want the colors to your model with "VN_" then go to the usermod\materials\models and create a new folder and name it VN_mlp and in it put your model's name that is on the mlp file to the VN_mlp file and with the vtf and the others in it and go to the notepad or notepad++ on the .VMT file change every "models/mlp" to "models/VN_mlp" and it will be done so if you still got a problem with it tell me so i can help you or xPrEpWnEdx if you want =3
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.....i dont understand coding languageΒ
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you gotta read it all to understand it =/
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I put instructions in the description...?
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but when i put it in the animation set for the model the model dissapears. im new to sfm and im doing it for a school project
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Deselect rootTransform before you import it.
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it keeps dissapearing maybe im not deselecting the root transform correctly or maybe its not the rightroot transform. im still really new at this so i dont know were things are, but id like to get to know the program better
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It's not disappearing, it's just moved really far away. "rootTransform" should be under the "Body" group; have everything selected but that when you import the animation.
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eh it still moves =_=' sadness
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by the way when i look at the source and destination window theres a thing marked red with no destination found and all the text below is yello. thought that would help find an explanation. maybe i put the file in the wrong place?
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I am very new to SFM so the mistake is more than likely on my end but, when I import the animation the pony I imported it to just dissappears.
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Deselect "rootTransform" when you import it.
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Oh, my bad, she just spawned very far outside the map. Anyway, thank you for the walk cycle! It's amazing!
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That looks so amazing how did you do that?
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I got a GIF of a walk cycle from the show and copied the pose in each frame in SFM, then used the graph editor to interpolate the model's movements between the "frames" I'd posed.
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I am getting a bit of problem, It seems more the legs are crossing over with eachother on an angle.
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At Bone 15 and 16 which is the Left and Right arms.
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How do you mean?
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See the red text?
Instead of a smooth walk shown, the legs look crippled and are crossing over.
imgur.com/uMDspMy.jpg
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Oh, I think you might be using the wrong version. There two download links in the description; try the other one and it should work.
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How do I stop the pony from moving foward right after I import it when I only want to keep the walking animation?
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If you haven't already, deselect the rootTransform control before you import it. Otherwise, with rootTransform still deselected, select the animation samples of when the pony is walking and drag the model around with the translation and/or rotation tool so its matches what you had in mind.
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I think I figured it out all I have to do is to use the playhead preset on the pelvis to make her stop moving.
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Call me dumb but, when I tried loading this I got this error [link]
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If that error is what I think it is, you don't open it that way. Right click an animation set and select Import animation.
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when try to move it and animate it with root transform the legs stop moving :c
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It might be that you need to extend the clip length; right click on the model's animation set, click View in Element Viewer -> ChannelsClip and increase the duration control that's somewhere in there. If that doesn't do anything, try animating it from the pelvis instead of rootTransform.
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How do you post a video file to deviant art like that? when i do it keeps asking for a preview image.
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Both of them are animated GIFs, the preview is just a lot smaller (less than 150x150, I think).
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so is there a way to convert sfm format into a gif?
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Yeah. Export it from SFM as an image sequence, open the first frame in VirtualDub and you can export it as a GIF from there.
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