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Welcome to another tutorial for Wolfire's
ninja rabbit fighting game Overgrowth.

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Today we're going to be talking about rigging
and animation.

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Pop open the object browser and pick out your
favorite 3D mesh.

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Here I'm using the rabbit guard model.

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Make sure your object is selected then click
on the "Meep Meep Meep Meep" tab.

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Then click the rigging tool button.

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Now if you hold control, anywhere you click,
a joint will spawn.

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And you can place them wherever you feel they
are appropriate.

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Individual joints can be selected and repositioned
using the same old controls we had in the

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map editor.

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Alright, this guy need some bones!

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By holding alt, and clicking on one joint,
then another, you'll draw a bone connecting

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the two.

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Ok, this skeleton is looking pretty good!

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When you're all set, pushing control-T rigs
the skeleton to the 3D character mesh.

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High five! <Borat voice>

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You can now move whatever parts of the skeleton
you want and the rest will follow in accordance

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with their constraints.

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I know kung fu! <Neo voice>

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Let's click the reset pose button,

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and by pressing control-A we can pop open
the animation editor.

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Pressing the diamond button with create a
keyframe that stores the current pose information.

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Keyframes will always spawn to your current
time position within the animation sequence,

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and this is designated by the little blue
line.

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The adjustable grey area marks off the designated
length of your animation.

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And of course when you push play you get to
watch the smooth transition between your keyframes.

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I'm going to edit my animation to incorporate
a little arm action here.

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Awww yeah, getting jiggy with it.

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A lot of people have been asking what kinds
of character meshes will work with the animation

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system.

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The answer is that any object that can be
loaded into the Phoenix Engine can be rigged

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and animated.

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Check out our friend, Mr. Stone Column, for
example.

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God help us if someone tries to animate the
fan-made whaleman model.

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If you'd like to start playing with these
tools yourself, you can preorder Overgrowth

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to get our weekly alphas.

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Be sure to keep up with the latest Overgrowth
development news on the Wolfire Blog!