How To Make A Custom Team Fortress 2 Taunt

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This step by step tutorial will teach you how to make your own taunt animations in Blender as well as compiling them for Team Fortress 2.

Here's the script that used when your compiling the animation. You can use this one if you wish, but don't forget to change the (Character) and (Animation) parts.

// defining the upaxis is needed for maya exports $upaxis Z

$modelname player/(Character)_animations.mdl

$includemodel player/(Character)_animations2.mdl

$definevariable infoNode "(Character)Info" $include "(Character)_definebones.qci"

// include the file that sets up the ikchains $include "../../TF_animation_rules/ruleshierarchy.qci" $include "../../TF_animation_rules/TF_macros_list.qci"

$pushd "../animations"

$sequence (Animation) "(Animation)" snap fps 30

Useful links:

Blender Download Page: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/ Blender SMD and DMX addons: http://code.google.com/p/blender-smd/ GUIStudioMDL and instructions: http://www.wunderboy.org/apps/guistudiomdl2.php

GCFScape: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26

Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.1.html

Check out the Heavy Flip Taunt that I made last year. Taunt Page

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Posted 5 months ago
I Need your copy of Blender.

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Posted 12 months ago
how do i u turn it into a Mdl file?
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Posted 12 months ago
Posted by Anonymous

in GuiStudioMDL do i need Ep1 or orangebox for this to work

7:17 There's your answer. You only need Team Fortress 2 for this to work.

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Posted 12 months ago
in GuiStudioMDL do i need Ep1 or orangebox for this to work
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Posted by Your_Breakfast

For the part where you import to Source Engine to get the stuff, the Source Engine doesn't show on mine. What should I do?

Did you install the addon and save it as a default setting?

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Posted 12 months ago
For the part where you import to Source Engine to get the stuff, the Source Engine doesn't show on mine. What should I do?

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Posted 1 year ago
Posted by ThemSnipers

Hey one question, how can i change the FPS? You say in your video it's on the right, but i cant seem to find that.

By default you should be on the camera tab. There you'll find the Frame Rate menu.

http://i.imgur.com/fSBPh.png

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Posted 1 year ago
Hey one question, how can i change the FPS? You say in your video it's on the right, but i cant seem to find that.

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Posted 1 year ago
Posted by Zenamez

Fantastic tutorial. I was put off making animations when I first looked at 3DS max and the lack of extremely noob friendly guides- This has made me want to animate again :P. Any chance of a release for that sniper's "Two fingers to the wind" taunt?

Sure. I fixed a couple of frames in animation shortly after I posted the tutorial.

Thanks for the comment.

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Posted 1 year ago
Fantastic tutorial. I was put off making animations when I first looked at 3DS max and the lack of extremely noob friendly guides- This has made me want to animate again :P. Any chance of a release for that sniper's "Two fingers to the wind" taunt?

An imaginative use of words!