Deleting Limbs?

[Nefnoj]

Greetings!

Because the Source Filmmaker's only in Beta, it's clearly prone to glitches. One glitch I encountered was that certain vertices would spontaneously vanish! As if they were deleted, for I couldn't see them when ctrling in the viewport. I figure that this glitch could be useful, if anyone knows how to apply this, please let me know!

[Pte Jack]

I've never come across something like that, but you could always rotate the limbs into the torso if you are looking for someway to hide limbs

[raptornx01]

It could be useful if there was a way to control it. I thought if you could find a way to remove the no-texture texture might be able to do it that way. But I haven't been able to find the texture.

If you render out the video are they still missing?

[R234]

Vertices? Do you mean joints? Totally different thing...

I've never seen joints just disappear, so I don't know what bug you mean. Unless you mean how finger joints tend to become unselectable when using a rig script.You can make joints unselectable and invisible in Ctrl view by clicking the arrow shaped thingy on their left in the Animation Set Editor.

[Nefnoj]

Not unselectable, they simply vanish. Sadly, I didn't render out any photographic evidence of this happening. It happened to me twice, I believe, each time was from when I was messing around with the Motion Editor, if/when it happens again, I'll render a screenshot and plop it here. Maybe I'll press random keys on my keyboard and see what happens.

And as far as my wordchoice goes, in truth, I meant both. Bits 'n' pieces of the model vanished, along with the joint corresponding to it.

[Pte Jack]

This sounds more like a texture problem than things disappearing... Do you remember what model it was, was it a custom content model or just one of the regulars available in SFM?

[R234]

Interesting... Definitely post a screenshot of that if it happens again. I'm curious.

[Nefnoj]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Pte Jack:

This sounds more like a texture problem than things disappearing... Do you remember what model it was, was it a custom content model or just one of the regulars available in SFM?

It was the default hwm\heavy model, oddly enough!

[Pte Jack]

Custom map or map that came with SFM? (stranger and stranger) And did you start the project BEFORE the last update?

[Nefnoj]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Pte Jack:

Custom map or map that came with SFM? (stranger and stranger) And did you start the project BEFORE the last update?

Koth_King, and it was post update!

[Pte Jack]

Sorry guys, I can't replicate this, I've loaded King, and both the hwm and player models of the soldier. Pushed them through a whole series of animations and made a few custom animations of my own and added them to the batch (only a 60 second routine though). The soldier stays in tack and animates properly. I do not lose any limbs or bones in the animation.

[raptornx01]

Sure they aren't just snapping out of view? like lost inside the model? Had that happen before especially using the rotation tool. it can be fickle.

[Pte Jack]

Yea, I was watching for that too, but that doesn't sound like the situation described. Hope he can post a screen shot of it. I'm interested.

[Nefnoj]

Wait a minute... It might have just happened with a tire, lemme get a pair of screenshots.

[Pte Jack]

Click click, let me take a picture...

[Pte Jack]

Describe what you were doing when the tire disappeared too, please