In game Animation Editor ideas

[sonic loom]

I have this cool idea where you are able to literally make animations in real time, but i have no idea how should this structure looks. I have this project where i modify the F3X tool to its max capabilities, and i want to add this idea to the project.

is this even possible?

[upper sparrow]

have you heard of Roblox Studio?

http://wiki.roblox.com

[sonic loom]

very funny

[upper sparrow]

"is it possible" probably. idk what you mean by "literally make animations in real time", you mean record how a person moves irl and play it back on the player's character?

or... did you mean record how a character moves all animation layers inclusive and play that back? idk both are yeah but they a different. what were you asking about?

[sonic loom]

to put it simple, Animation Editor in runtime

[upper sparrow]

i'm not sure if you can publish animations or not during runtime, you might, that's the only limit

[sonic loom]

editing keyframes, poses, using runtime move and rotate tools

[sonic loom]

you can get around it by serialising the whole animation file

[upper sparrow]

if you don't need to publish then yeah this is very possible

[sonic loom]

turning it into strings and then converting them back to instances and objects

[upper sparrow]

or yeah serialize and then load it into studio later if you wanted to publish, that's technically possible

[sonic loom]

in studio

[upper sparrow]

this is not a problem

it's a lot of work but it's possible

[upper sparrow]

only reason you would do this is to pass over networking with compression

[sonic loom]

i want good sources for how animation file structures work

[upper sparrow]

google it

keyframes are instances

[sonic loom]

alrady tired

[upper sparrow]

and roblox has a whole thing about animations

read all the material http://wiki.roblox.com search for it

[sonic loom]

🥹

gonna reread everything

[upper sparrow]

but anyway to answer your question, yes it is possible. the only exception is if you wanted to permanently publish it and play it back with humanoid:loadanimation. you need to publish to use loadanimation. you can still animate without using humanoid:loadanimation but it's a lot more involved and a lot more work, but still very much possible. if you want to or need to do that then well whatever game you want to make and the features within it are entirely up to you and how you want it to work

[sonic loom]

thank you

i will try my best and figure this out

[limpid igloo]

Isn’t there a meathod to have the user publish something? Or is that only for packages

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[upper sparrow]

publish during runtime