Can A Model Have 2 Skeletons?

menohack

For example, the big armored suits with people in them, do they just have one skeleton? They proabably just use one and move with the suit but i was wondering if you can have 2 separate skeletons (such as a person sitting in a suit where he doesnt have to move). If not could i just take the model of the person and remove the skeleton and just stick it in the suit with no animation (doesnt really need any)?

Quaunaut

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It can have as many skeletons as you want, but models for say, the HA, just have one. Why? Because that model doesn't exist with that character anymore(until he/she dies). So just use one skeleton.

menohack

I meant like the landmate. But anyway, what i want to do is put the light marine into a big suit. He will be sitting down and he doesnt really move, because he has hand controls that move the suit. So I wanted to put a normal skeleton on the guy and a new one on the suit so that the guy could be moving his hands and stuff to make it look like he is doing something.

I was wondering if there'll be any problems running it in NS.

Drfuzzy

its possable, just deselect the joint and pop in a new one, new skeleton <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

BUT its best off to have a starting joint and just have one big skeleton so you can make the whole model bob up and down

menohack

hey... does that mean i can just connect the two entire skeletons by one joint?

good idea!