Centaur in the works, fully functional (update 04.05.2017 - nexus link pg 1)

[XcOm04au]

I am assuming it works as NPC, player.placeatme xxxxxxxxxx and also PC (racemenu change race)?

[wishnot4]

Yes though the NPC's are as basic as you can get.

[XcOm04au]

then I dont think the issues you put forward are that big a deal at the moment. It will be glorious when it fully work but I think getting it as an NPC just to start with for the time being is so awesome in itself!

[wishnot4]

Okay then.  I'm going to do something now that Spike might not like.  This is pre-alpha release of the centaurs.  Once I hear back from Spike, the actual alpha release will most likely happen, but I'm more than ready for everone to actually start getting a taste of this mod.  A warrening, there are still lots of bugs.  First, I am only one guy and there are so so many animations to make that I've only made about 100 so far.  So, there will be lots of times that the centaurs' horse half goes static.  And you can play as a centaur, with the aforementioned issues.  I think they actually fall on camera placement in the skeleton as well as the fact that I haven't made a first person version of the skeleton yet.  Anyway, here it is guys, please be kind.

 

Edit: Now that the official alpha release has been posted, I've removed the download from this post.  Here is the link. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/83640/?

[lurkeylurkinglurker]

Thanks for your work on the mod

 

[lurkeylurkinglurker]

Just finished trying it out and it looks very promising. I'm surprised you were able to pull this off! Keep up the great work!

 

(As a side note: are you aware of a bug while slowly turning right with a single weapon in hand that causes the camera to slightly bug out. Very early alpha so that is to be expected; just telling in case you hadn't seen that.)

[MadMansGun]

the horse part is not showing up for me, but i am assuming it's because of the body mods i am using.

i'll look more into it later.

 

[lurkeylurkinglurker]

the horse part is not showing up for me, but i am assuming it's because of the body mods i am using.

i'll look more into it later.

Worked for me. Try a fresh skyrim install I guess?

[XcOm04au]

btw, for female, I found that amputee mod work with taking the human legs away then the human half and the horse parts marry up pretty nicely

I have placed the download on page 1, first post,  of this thread  for easy access

 

Also the mod looks promising

 

Edit: While I was recording I noticed that the walk animation looks a little  off. What I mean is - right arms swings at the same time the horse's front right leg swings forward. Should it be like this?

[wishnot4]

Just finished trying it out and it looks very promising. I'm surprised you were able to pull this off! Keep up the great work!

 

(As a side note: are you aware of a bug while slowly turning right with a single weapon in hand that causes the camera to slightly bug out. Very early alpha so that is to be expected; just telling in case you hadn't seen that.)

 

No, I wasn't aware that the camera bugged out when slowly turning right.  It might have to do with the fact(as I understand it) that I haven't made the MT animations for the behavior to blend them into a whole.  I'm about to start work on the MT animations today or tomorrow.  But there are more of them than any other animation set, so it will take some time.

the horse part is not showing up for me, but i am assuming it's because of the body mods i am using.

i'll look more into it later.

That's weird.  Might be because you have something taking up armor slot 40, I figured using the tail slot made the most sense.

 

btw, for female, I found that amputee mod work with taking the human legs away then the human half and the horse parts marry up pretty nicely

I have placed the download on page 1, first post,  of this thread  for easy access

 

Also the mod looks promising

 

Edit: While I was recording I noticed that the walk animation looks a little  off. What I mean is - right arms swings at the same time the horse's front right leg swings forward. Should it be like this?

 

Interesting, I've never used the amputee mod, I may check it out and see if I can incorporate their technique into our centaurs.  It is cool that you placed the download on the first post, but when the actual alpha release is out, I intend to remove this version.  What I'll do is swap the download out for a link to the mod page.  The walk may be off, but I am one of the most subpar animators out there, so I just merged the human walk forward with the horse walk forward.  It probably won't look perfect, but it is the easiest and quickest way to maximize the number of animations I can produce.

 

I'm glad so many people are enjoying our mod. Hopefully, I will have another 100 animations done by the end of next month.

[D C]

Best of serious luck

[XcOm04au]

Hey man, you are awesome, I hope any of these helpful suggestions we are all making aren't taken to heart, I guess we all just really want to be involved and help in anyway

We all wish you guys luck on your many projects !

[wishnot4]

Hey, does anyone have a good version of HCT 2011.2?  It seems that I've messed up my version that I had.  Now every time I try to export an animation it tells me failed to write to platform.  Without a working HCT, I can't make animations for the centaurs, so it's very important.

[MadMansGun]

Hey, does anyone have a good version of HCT 2011.2?  It seems that I've messed up my version that I had.  Now every time I try to export an animation it tells me failed to write to platform.  Without a working HCT, I can't make animations for the centaurs, so it's very important.

 

are you sure it's not just the export settings?

 

have you tried exporting to a different folder? 

 

thanks to Microcrap there are no "legal" download links for havok 2011 anymore, so unless you still have the installer for it your fucked.

[wishnot4]

 

Hey, does anyone have a good version of HCT 2011.2?  It seems that I've messed up my version that I had.  Now every time I try to export an animation it tells me failed to write to platform.  Without a working HCT, I can't make animations for the centaurs, so it's very important.

 

are you sure it's not just the export settings?

havoc1.jpghavoc2.jpghavoc3.jpghavoc4.jpghavoc5.jpg

 

have you tried exporting to a different folder? 

 

thanks to Microcrap there are no "legal" download links for havok 2011 anymore, so unless you still have the installer for it your fucked.

 

I still have the installer for HCT 2011.2.  And I've checked the settings several times.  I guess maybe something could be wrong with my re-install of 3ds max 2012. 

[MadMansGun]

 

I still have the installer for HCT 2011.2.  And I've checked the settings several times.  I guess maybe something could be wrong with my re-install of 3ds max 2012.

 

if you have reinstalled max you most likely need to reinstall havok as will.

 

you should probably check to see if your antivirus is interfering with anything as well, disconnect from the internet and turn off your antivirus program/s, then try exporting a animation.

[wishnot4]

I've already re-installed HCT twice now. But I haven't tried the antivirus check yet. I'll give that a shot.

 

Edit: OK well this last suggestion didn't work. But while I had already tried exporting it to different file directories I hadn't tried exporting it to my rig text folder. It worked when I did that, which is weird because before the reformatting it wouldn't export to that folder. Whatever works though right?

[wishnot4]

Back in the animation saddle.  I made 3 new animations.  Hopefully, I can keep up the rate.

 

 

Edit: Knocked another 3 animations out today.  Almost didn't.  I had to skip the get-up from back and get-up from front animations.  I have no clue how to make those animations look good for a centaur.  Any thoughts?

[D C]

Again, remember the video i said , make the animation a bit slow and it will be perfect

[XcOm04au]

check out how a horse get up from when it is on its side

[ingeloak]

 It seems for some reason when the centaur runs it is in slow motion.

i dont know if this has any bearing in Skyrim, but in World of Warcraft (and other MMOs) player characters have a normalized "speed over ground." if they are larger than a "standard" race the animations look slower, because although they have longer strides, they still only move so fast on foot. smaller races such as gnomes and dwarves have a faster appearing stride, or else their strides seem to float them over the ground a little.

[wishnot4]

 

 It seems for some reason when the centaur runs it is in slow motion.

i dont know if this has any bearing in Skyrim, but in World of Warcraft (and other MMOs) player characters have a normalized "speed over ground." if they are larger than a "standard" race the animations look slower, because although they have longer strides, they still only move so fast on foot. smaller races such as gnomes and dwarves have a faster appearing stride, or else their strides seem to float them over the ground a little.

 

That very well might explain it.  It is an issue, but one that will have to wait until I've made more animations. Thanks for the insight.

[ingeloak]

 

That very well might explain it.  It is an issue, but one that will have to wait until I've made more animations. Thanks for the insight.

 

 

best way i can see to test this is to have the centaur run next to an NPC, and see if they move the same speed. that said, Skyrim's horses seem to be very slow unless they are custom mods. followers on foot can almost keep up when sprinting.

 

(Valdmire Castle's Sabbath mount is very fast by comparison. none of the vanilla horses can keep up except possibly Shadowmere)

[wishnot4]

Good thinking, I'll suggest the test to Spike to see if it's something like that.

[XcOm04au]

updates?