What pose is it supposed to start from when making taunts?

[GManTheMarioGuy]

i start it from ragdoll spawn and it doesnt work if im doing anything wrong please give a fix

[Tiretracker]

Typically most taunts start from the idle primary weapon taunt, even if for a single frame.

the 3 way blend is supposed to handle the transition.

Need more info on the exact order of operations you're doing

[Zappy]

Originally posted by sentry buster:

What pose is it supposed to start from when making taunts?

A taunt should start with its starting pose. Similarly, a taunt should end with its ending pose. Team Fortress 2 can automatically blend smoothly from the player's current sequence (e.g. standing or running with a specific weapon) to the taunt, and from the taunt to the player's sequence afterwards.

If you make a taunt that starts and ends with the player's "standing while holding the primary weapon" pose, then using the taunt while holding a melee weapon will make the player blend from a melee pose to a primary pose, then to the taunt. And when the taunt ends, the player will blend from the taunt to a primary pose, then to a melee pose. This looks bad... and is unfortunately very common with Team Fortress 2's taunts.

Originally posted by sentry buster:

i start it from ragdoll spawn and it doesnt work -

What doesn't work, what did you expect would happen, and what happened instead?

[GManTheMarioGuy]

sorry tho what is the starting pose?

[GManTheMarioGuy]

Originally posted by Tiretracker:

Typically most taunts start from the idle primary weapon taunt, even if for a single frame.

the 3 way blend is supposed to handle the transition.

Need more info on the exact order of operations you're doing

how do you use 3 way blend? i've never seen that option in sfm

[Zappy]

Originally posted by sentry buster:

sorry tho what is the starting pose?

Whatever pose you want to have at the start of the taunt.
If the taunt starts with a jump, then the first few frames should probably have the spine bent over and the arms pointing down in a lead-up to the jump. If the taunt starts with the character spreading their arms to the side in mild surprise about a prop appearing in front of them, then the first few frames should have the character's arms and hands slightly in front of their belly, ready to do the "spreading their arms to the side" motion. Et cetera.

That is to say, there's no specific pose to start with - just start with the taunt itself.

[GManTheMarioGuy]

Originally posted by sentry buster:

i start it from ragdoll spawn and it doesnt work -

What doesn't work, what did you expect would happen, and what happened instead? [/quote]

so when i put it in game spy is just holding his primary weapon (tf2 importer) probably because i imported the ragdollspawn and i expected the animation to work

[GManTheMarioGuy]

Originally posted by Zappy:

Originally posted by sentry buster:

sorry tho what is the starting pose?

Whatever pose you want to have at the start of the taunt.
If the taunt starts with a jump, then the first few frames should probably have the spine bent over and the arms pointing down in a lead-up to the jump. If the taunt starts with the character spreading their arms to the side in mild surprise about a prop appearing in front of them, then the first few frames should have the character's arms and hands slightly in front of their belly, ready to do the "spreading their arms to the side" motion. Et cetera.

That is to say, there's no specific pose to start with - just start with the taunt itself.

if the taunt starts with standing what should the first few frames be?

[Zappy]

Originally posted by sentry buster:

if the taunt starts with standing what should the first few frames be?

Standing.

[GManTheMarioGuy]

Originally posted by Zappy:

Originally posted by sentry buster:

if the taunt starts with standing what should the first few frames be?

Standing.

TYSM SO MUCH ZAPPY IT WORKS IN THE TF2 IMPORTER NOW