Animating a Thememaker item?

[Modstin]

I've been having trouble with the Thememaker's toolkit pipeline. I've learned the fundamentals, and can easily important static objects, but now I'm trying to animate them and its just not working!
I know how to animate, and I know I'm doing this pretty much correctly. It's a one bone set up (for now), just moving up and down. I set up the armature, I rig it up (Ctrl + P, Auto Bone Weights). I keyframe it using the pose tool.
I import it, everything works fine, it gets into the game easily enough. The game even RECOGNIZES that it's an animated object, giving me functions on how often to play it and all that.
But it just doesn't move! At all! The animated object that is animated and the game agrees is animated won't animate!
What the heck am I doin wrong?

[Gordin]

Which program are you using to create the FBX model? If it is Blender I could definitely help, otherwise we'll have to see.

From your description I guess it is Blender, and you are using translations to move it up and down. My guess is the animation actually works, but at a scale of 1:100 (instead of moving 1m it will move 1cm). To rule out the easiest stuff, you could try exporting via my addon which among other things will attempt to fix this scaling issue: https://tmtk.gohax.eu

If that doesn't help you can send me a friend request, such things are hard to debug via the public forum.

[Modstin]

Originally posted by Gordin:

Which program are you using to create the FBX model? If it is Blender I could definitely help, otherwise we'll have to see.

From your description I guess it is Blender, and you are using translations to move it up and down. My guess is the animation actually works, but at a scale of 1:100 (instead of moving 1m it will move 1cm). To rule out the easiest stuff, you could try exporting via my addon which among other things will attempt to fix this scaling issue: https://tmtk.gohax.eu

If that doesn't help you can send me a friend request, such things are hard to debug via the public forum.

I say this with very little hyperbole: You should be canonized as a catholic saint for this.
This worked. Your plugin worked and it's amazing. Thank you so much.

[Modstin]

IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE IS WHAT IT IS

[Gordin]

Originally posted by Modstin:

I say this with very little hyperbole: You should be canonized as a catholic saint for this.
This worked. Your plugin worked and it's amazing. Thank you so much.

Thank you, you challenge my modesty :)

I mostly developed this plugin for myself as fixing the animation by hand gets really tedious, but I'm always very happy when it proves useful to someone else. Have fun!