i need some help please

[Tazman]

Hi I have created a tripod machine from the 2005 film war of the worlds. I am still very much a newbie to 3ds max. I would like to start trying to animate this but I am not sure the best way to make it walk....... I do know that the walk sequence will go like left, right, rear, left, right, rear, as shown in the fillm. I posted on another forum but got nothing back.
Here is a link to one of the renders.

[SDA]

Hi Tazman.

You will need to add bones to your model before you can animate it. Find some tutorials on the subject "rigging" and "skinning". Here is an example of it here.

Hope I helped ;)
Cheers

[Tazman]

Cheers SDA for the info, good video by the way :)

I am aware that I need to add bones to it first. What I am trying to figure out is if there is an easier way to make it walk???? like plottting a path for each of the feet to land...... kind of like what bi-ped does for it's character.

Thanks again :)

[SDA]

I didn't found any related videos on you tube, and I really don't know how to do that. I am exploring that my self so, my best answer to this is to when you make one walk cycle, copy all the animation keys the number of times you want it to make that "step".

I hope someone will help you better than I did, but this is all I know so far about animating a walk.

Cheers ;)