Ground effect animation in 3.3.5

[Roxas]

Hello, I would make a patch for the animation of the effect of ground warlord in wotlk, if possible can you tell me how?

[Namok]

Hi Roxas ! Are you talking about the grass ? When you run and it's wriggling ?

[Roxas]

you can see the grass moving on this video
[media:24m6oxt2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjIBC41fXI[/media:24m6oxt2]

[Gurluas]

I think that's not possible in 3.3.5, as the effects are hardcoded not to move...At least that's what I heard.

[Amaroth]

I suppose we are talking about changes in game engine itself, if it is so, its near to impossible.

[Alastor]

its possible and its easy

that moving grassare is just model spawned by ground effects so you can simple add that moving animation to model of grass which is like 4 vertexis and you are done you have moving grass

[Roxas]

and if I convert a wod grass m2 on 3.3.5 ?

[Alastor]

i have no idea if that grass has those animations but i guess that it should have one so try to have a look

[spik96]

I believe this moving effect was not written in the m2 by Blizzard, it's probably a global effect applied on grass models which, by themselves, contain no animation.
What Alastor suggest is to mimic the movement by adding an animation to the grass models you want.
I think this could be possible, if there is no hardcoded thing preventing ground models to move but I don't see why there would be one. Hell, we have moving palmtrees in Stranglethorn since Vanilla.

The hard task is here to define what the animation is. I believe most grass have one bone, therefore one keybone so we could apply the animation to all grass models with a script without having to do it by hand.
But how to define the movement in terms of time stamps and translation/rotation/scaling values ? Tricky.

Just to be sure we should check a WoD grass model. If there is an animation then we're done.

[Amaroth]

Well, you still probably won't solve problem with animations of grass "reacting" on player movement. About WoD GE models, their retro-ported versions from PhillipTNG don't have animations and I doubt he would be removing those animations if there were any.

[spik96]

We can't bring the reacting to players feature, but ambient animation would already be quite nice.

[schlumpf]

Please note that the number of bones (and probably vertices) is hard limited inside the client. Be sure to test before putting in a lot of work.

[Amaroth]

Still guys came up with an interresting idea. I am just not sure how optimal will performance be (if engine will even handle this kind of solution). Well, hopefully someone will try and we shall see.

[Roxas]

Hi, thank you for your rep if you ever find a technique to do thank you in advance to explain me.