Cup o' Tea

Is it possible to make a sphere more cubic instead of perfectly round? I'm trying to stick to the ol Minecraft style.

I'm looking to get into rigging and was wondering if you guys could give me some tips (ex. how to parent an object, making rounded objects without spamming cubes)

Looks great! Keep it up

What are the dimensions for a profile background that fit it almost perfectly?

Looks great! Will be putting this in as a little easter egg for some of my animations =P

You guys are overloading him with requests, chances are he won't even get done with page one.

Just a little wallpaper I made with my new rig when I was bored.

Hurray, I'm the last one! To give a cartoon feel, ignore the fact that the face is a mask. Treat it as if it were an actual wolf-the eyes on the mask should be rigged. If possible, I don't want a mouth on mine. I think he means this: http://www.minecraftskins.com/skin-editor/ If his isn't compatible, my guess is mine won't be either because of the 1.7 format, but Novaskin uses a similar editor that (if I'm not mistaken) supports 32x64. Could you use that?

So lately I've kind of abandoned this forum-but I'll still kind of pop up every once in awhile. Anyways, here's a little animation I made because I was bored. Basically, if I played CS:S, I'd be mic-spamming and camping the entire round. http://youtu.be/xHEUqNPXgAc Sorry, Japan.

Is there any that have those parts rigged?

Basically the Space Core from Portal. I don't need it so round, and it would be nice if it were sort of Minecraft style. Note the axis that the rig needs to spin on for the "eye". quick note, the eyelids are attached to the area highlighted in red, same with the eye Also, I do know of the core rigs already made, but as far as I know, they don't spin on that axis or have adjustable eyelids which is what I need

These rigs should work! Just use this:

Don't move anything, that was a mistake on my end (didn't read close enough) =P Right click the file you run Mineimator from and choose "Run as Administrator"

This isn't really a bug, it's just wrapping the screenshot around the player.

Recently I've been quite active in the help forum... So I might as well share some things with you guys. How to detach an item from another to create a "drop" effect.' I recently found this neat trick while experimenting with Mineimator. When you have an item parented to a player, but want him to drop the item or set it down, make the object he is holding invisible while at the same time making a replica of that object in the same position as the original be visible. Now you can move the new object around without having it parented to the player. You can reverse this for a pickup effect. Smoother motion Change the transition from frame to frame to a smoother in and out transition when a limb is moving so it is smoother and more realistic. Save frequently Yea yea, you've heard this one before whether it's your brain talking or David himself. But trust me, I once spent 3 hours working on a cave animation only to have my computer overheat, losing everything. This is actually the reason I stopped animating for awhile. --I will update this topic with more when I get the time!

You should still try moving it to another folder. You can also run mineimator.exe as an administrator which might help.

By default it exports as .avi, but you can reduce the quality here:

Just press the button shown below.

Basically what the above user said. The only other good way is complicated. You toggle visibility on a cylinder that is aligned with your firearm/weapon when the laser is "fired"

I was able to do this by having an item parented to a human toggle visibility off, then toggle visibility on on an unparented item.

If you open keyframe properties, there is an option at the bottom which will have a checkbox allowing you to toggle visibility. This option hides it from the final render.

He fixed it.

Try moving the file to your documents or downloads, programfiles is protected by Windows Firewall.

This is great! I can't wait for the other ones.