so how does modeling work? if I make a character in blender,

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you add bones/skeleton and makes animations then import it to an engine

>>389281704
>you add bones/skeleton
Nice try, motherfucker. Get back into your cave, skellington.

>>389281609
read the armature tutorial that comes with Blender, it explains the whole process pretty well

>>389281609

You create the character model, and then you create an armature, put the bones where you want them to be in accordance to the model, set the armature to be a parent of the model, check the bones to see if the weight distribution is where you want it to be for each bone (meaning, what bone controls what, and by how much), then you animate it in the Animation Editor, and once you have all of that done, depending on the game engine you are using, export to the appropriate file. Blender project files can be read by Unity and it imports pretty much everything into the project, including animations. I don't know if Unreal does the same thing.

>>389282669
I'm pretty surprised you took the time to explain calmly the correct way of doing it.

I do wish op is asking seriously

>>389282669
Not him but how does a game handle animations? Do I record a bunch of things in blender and just have them in a file assoicated with the model like myGuyJumps.Ani or something?

>>389283793

Animations become files for use in the game engine. In the blender/Unity example, importing a blender project file imports all the animations in that file as separate files. You can also import/save animations separately from the model and vice versa.

Using an animation in a game is as simple as having the code call for that animation to be used. This should work on models not intended for that animation but it'll look pretty messed up.

>>389284787
Thanks man, modelling is something I want to at least get a basical handle of for being able to make quick stuff for testing

>>389285158

No problem. Can't wait to see what you'll make.

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It's easy anon. Get to it.