Hey clay. I'm a LWver but not used Unreal Xtreme. I mainly use Swift for flash output. I'm very 2D oriented these days.

D.K

Slice, I think you hit the nail right on the head with that post. This is why I am trying to understand Genetes concept in basic steps so that I might be able to help pass the info on to the other AS users. We all have to thank Genete for spending the time on this tutorial and i did'nt want to seem ...

Thanks for that genete. Fantastic!

D.K

Hi Genete. That link to the verticle file does not work

D.K

Hi Genete.

Did you do the sample but vertically? If yes congratulations.
I probably would post a new step tonight. If not you have to wait until 9th.

Is rotating the main bone layer 90 deg cheating?

D.K

Hi Genete. There is one problem that I had but solved. When I created my "A B C" bones I still had my Master bone selected so they became parented to the Master. I figured out that after you create the Master bone, deselect everything and then create A,B and C bones so they are parented to...

Great work Genete! I will send some feedback as soon as i get some quiet time to study your post.

D.K

Can you post a link here when it is ready Genete?

Cheers
D.K

Hi Slice. I think Genetes new tutorial he's working on sahould clear things up a lot. I'm with you. I can't seem to translate what he's saying into practice as yet although I do understand what's going on I just need to know how to set it all up in AS.

D.K

Wow we're getting there....This is exciting Genete

D.K

Thanks for that Genete. That makes it a LOT clearer as to what exactly is going on with the bones. I still don't understand how I might go about making this bone setup though. Is it possible to get a VERY written step by step basics on how one would go about it?

D.K

Hi MattVG
oops...sorry a spelling mistake.
Try this:

http://www.errolgray.com.au/ants.anme

Cheers
D.K

Hi MattVG.
Here is a line of ants I made with a bone string. If you took a little time with it using onion skins as a guide you could get a pretty reasonable result. Anyways you're more than welcome to use this if you wish.

http://www.errolgray.com.au/ants.anime

Cheers
D.K

Hey, I don't know if this would work but you could make one ant on one layer and then create a line of bones. Duplicate your ant layer as many times as you want and create the same amount of bones. Parent each ant layer to each bone using and you should have a very flexible animated line of ants :) ...

Here's that swf link again.

http://www.errolgray.com.au/3Deyes.swf

Cheers
D.K