Strider (Animation Test)

[RuiSilva82]

muiiiiito bom!!!!

amazing!!

[NB5BHVL]

Damn the boy is hung to his ....Ummm where's his knee caps now ?

[JA15XD]

i know how to import the strider and other models into 3ds max, but how do i animate and rig it for animation and use the preset animations for it? tutorial would be nice.

[weezing22arbok]

Striders are my fav Synths.

[usefullstuff]

I followed the tutorial and it worked great but my strider is facated. Do you know how to fix this?

[rctwik]

war of the worlds much?

[XF3DeX]

Can you upload the model?

Please I need it

[disa051295]

How you import model and animation from HL2 to 3DS max?

[Neporazen]

It's amazing:d can u tell me where i can find this model?

[10lettername]

very very nice

[losdiketown]

Does anyone here have a clue how to tweak these animations so i can have a strider that flinches and turns around whilst its getting shot?

[lerikenchadze]

HEi,its amazing :) i have one question and i hope you will answer me :) i downloaded strider model,it has BONES,,but its too time consuming animating manual......and how did you animate yours? please tell me.....iF SMD ...how it works?please explain me)

[gordanfreeman99]

i love striders

[roma197139]

@gordanfreeman99 i like thains :|

[gordanfreeman99]

@roma197139 i like trains :|

[FroggyDarth]

Um... how is it balancing on two legs when it lifts one up..? O.o

[JWGinge]

Momentum.

[youareepicfailz]

how do you.......? -.-

[howdoichargelazers]

How do you balance on 2 legs?

[FroggyDarth]

With skills.

[MatinoAdeAit]

Well, how do YOU balance on two legs?

[Biohazard000Labs]

@MatinoAdeAit the strider has 3 legs

[MatinoAdeAit]

@Biohazard000Labs Oh, I know. But they asked how they balance on three, so... I was just replying sarcastically, that we have less legs, and we still manage to balance..

[ZorrroUK]

@FroggyDarth its a TEST

[MatinoAdeAit]

Magic :D

[Splaterson92]

sorry but you failed yourself

its called war of the worlds

and half life was released in 2004

[Onox792]

Very nice O.o

[purikov]

@xigbar4ever

war of worlds was released somewhere earlier like 2000 ~ the 2005 was a remake

[MrMcPwn69]

intense!!!!!!

[herobarros]

i know i was just saying war of the worlds was a book first and that they didnt realy copy half life 2

[herobarros]

erm war of the worlds was a book in the victorian times and it was hen made into a movie in the 80s or 90s and then remade in 05

[aissa336]

wow

is that a spider

so the dog is lke what

thank you for this animation

[Matle666]

Oh, sorry, Didn't think through before I posted :P

[TheAssasinDesportan]

Watch out it got a grenade!!!

[keyman15]

is it all rigged and ready to go once you put it into 3ds max?

[Tummas1992]

I want an answer to that to :D

[gareler]

it is physiicaly imposible to walk like that because if it puts up one leg then then it will have only two support points making the strider to trip

[ThePearI]

Not really, as long as it keeps moving it should be able to, and who know that alien technology lurks under it's feet to create the grip? ;)

[katchison]

To me it looks kinda like it just digs into the concrete a little bit.

[CatGirl616]

It walks like a tripod in War of the Worlds :D

[m1up]

yeah, its apparently where they got the idea from.

[Matle666]

More like, WOTW got the idead from HL2.

[m1up]

no, I was talking about valve. Nice video though

[Matle666]

Yeah, I was talking about Valve too. They probably got the idea from wotw...

[m1up]

Yeah they so did. Not the new versions, the old ones. I looked it up on over wiki and it said they got it from war of the worlds. Do you remember the video game from like 1998 for pc?

[Headcrabman99]

Is there any way i can do this source SDK?

[SneakyPeteJunior]

really smooth, nice jod! :D

[AznishJustin]

looks like a giant headcrab :O

[W4rr1orZ]

i think the middle-leg shouldn't come that far to the others.BUT IT IS VEEERY COOL!! would be 5/5

[XeonIgnitionStudios]

Nope, It does xD

[ethosaur]

long wegs!

[CodeMonkeyMasta]

always thot of the gun to kinda be a 4th leg if it were to fall....since it can kinda move..

[LeonProKiller]

strider is like a headcrab with long legs 0w0 FTW man good job!

[MrShroubles]

i find it cool it's unusual way to walk with three legs

[commandotoy]

dang i could use that to make half life the movie. and it will be awesome only if i had something like that and i had the time to do it. say tell me what is that thing u used to make it

[adzie91]

Awsum thanks for the link (5 Star)

[sickgringo007]

I'd have a headach after being the pilot of such a thing

[AmunRa1]

It's actually a synth, meaning it's alive. Nobody is piloting that, it's walking by itself.

[OGMO11]

so are the dropships and gunships

[RavenofEnki]

Striders have no pilots, they are actually living creatures which were domesticated in a sense to become weapons of war..

[MasterOfYourAss]

Yeah, although there are addons in Gmod that let you control them.

It's actually just a side-effect since it was designed for the APCs and such.

You can also control Antguards xD

[sotirispi]

nice job....

[mokie95482]

Pwned! XD

[CRA101]

left right left right left right

[SumoSatsuma]

what about it's thrid leg?

(no dirty jokes pl0x)

[al3xt3hl0nly]

swing left, swing right.

[SumoSatsuma]

left, right, middle, left, right, middle you mean. :D

[Doctorduck9]

it still seems weird to me how the striders stay up-right surely as they brought all the legs forward (0:05 - 0:07) the momentom would cause it to fall forwards? oh well..

[Yurian903]

GOOD.....yes good 5/5

[ongpohheng]

that kinda reminds me of war of the world

[mrGlitch2000]

That sound effect during the mobie was a Stinger song.

[F413y]

Please you can upload the decompiled model of the Strider on rapidshare so I and others can use it?

Decompiling it is inuseful work since you just do that

Sorry for bad english

[Wax1Wax0]

Unfortunately, F413y, I'm not allowed to upload it for others.

The model belongs to Valve (the developers behind Half-Life 2) and while they do allow owners of the game to extract the models and play around with them, they don't allow people to share the models over the internet; it's a violation of copyright.

Sorry I couldn't help. :(

[frozensnakee]

i own the game. how do you extract the models?

[Dohokun]

I'm looking everywhere for the mdl decompiler but it's like the file just disappeared off the internet! is there another site that has it or can I just bittorrent it?

[Wax1Wax0]

I'll upload it for you right now, Dohokun.

[DjStofberg]

Look at the way they walk! Its ginious! Well done VALVe =D

[robinjam304]

This looks cool, but at one point in the animation sequence all three of the legs are lined up... surely the strider should fall over?!

[Zapper1993]

they are some percent organic, so i think they can balance naturally

[allthatlives]

i wonder what striders looked like before the combine captured them. Maybe they were fish?

[357MAGNUMSNIPER]

Right, Left Back, Right Left Back Is The Moving Theme

[randomness72838]

id be nice if you could pilot those badasses

[ToxicMadn3ss]

I know this is a double post, but if the Synth werent captured. They would have been harmless. And they would be on our side. Thats if they came through the Xen.

[ToxicMadn3ss]

They arent "Robots" Striders are a Synth type of creature that the combine long ago conqured.

After the capture, the Synth was used as a back bone of the combine to kill any strong resistance forces. And the reson they do look like robots, is that they have armour, and have a big gun attached that the combine put.

[RCCeptor5665]

Same with the Gunships and Dropships, they are alive creatures, that look like robotic things, because of their armour.

[halomen12]

striders are kick ass 2 bad the asses combine replaced them with robots :(

[halomen12]

i love striders it would realy suck if they wernt robots kill us all thed be smarter then combine

[Evilmzz]

did you know that striders were the xenians called synths they also seen in half life 2 beta

but combine remaked them like turning theyre body into metal and giving miniguns and lasers and remaking brains so striders are like robots now but someday they were xen population

[Lovetodrawstuff]

I always thought the striders should have the tips of their feet open into claws- for climbing. Wouldn't that be freaking crazy? opening your window in the penthouse to see a strider whooping on king kong across the street? XD

[defragen1]

lol creepy - kinda like the first time i saw a strider...

too bad they're not that scary ingame :P

[aa1977]

great work man!

[Einstreit]

Really good animation!

But if you think about it, Striders can't walk like that. Its impossible!

[Pikachux1000]

they can, weight distribution amongst the legs

[ffsnoob]

STRIDER!!!!!!!!!!

[MNC117]

Awesome. Did the model came rigged straight out of the game or did you rig it yourself?

[Wax1Wax0]

The SMD Importer I used (the one coded by Cannonfodder) ensures it comes into 3ds Max fully rigged but some of the envelopes need to be tweaked a little.

[isokessu]

that's pretty good why have you disabled ratings

[Xaistons]

Very nice phycics :D gj mate, looks like em in the game

[vychuck]

i think he musta used the animations from the game to make that ive had a go at that too :D, i just dont have a clue on how to make videos and lighting and putting these models into real life footage!! grrr

[PridhamPro]

So you know of an smd importer for 3ds max 9? I can't find it anywhere!

[Lety0uLive]

Nice , thanx for this vid:D

[Wax1Wax0]

You're welcome, Lety0uLive! I'll be posting another little Strider clip within the next week or so.

[timelord111223332211]

how easy would it be for you to put the strider on top of another clip?

[Wax1Wax0]

Depends on a few variables, including the kind of background clip (moving or static); how the Strider is to be framed (whether or not its shadow is to be cast on the background); the lighting conditions of the background clip (the Strider must be rendered with corresponding lighting); and so on. To put it another way: it's easy to composite two clips together but fairly challenging to get the end result looking picture-perfect.

[timelord111223332211]

do you have other HL2 models, such as the Hunter-Chopper?

[Wax1Wax0]

I own a copy of the game, so all the models are accessible, yeah ...

[timelord111223332211]

how would you like to animate the Hunter-Chopper and others for a movie Im making

[Wax1Wax0]

Damn it, sorry, timelord, I completely neglected to reply to this comment and now it's a month old. To answer your question, though, I'm not even close to having the time available to take on additional projects, unfortunately. Between my own projects and my efforts to earn some much-needed money, I'm working flat-out and still finding it impossible to get anywhere.

[timelord111223332211]

Ok, thanks

[timelord111223332211]

One more question, when you imported the strider into 3D Max, you came across the sound files used for the strider(footsteps, groans, battle cries) do you think you could email me those sounds if possible.

[HaloZX]

Striders move differently. More Easly.

[Wax1Wax0]

The .smd animation file I used was sourced directly from "Half-Life 2"; it's the Strider's forward walk cycle (unaltered). Basically, it's the exact same cycle used for animating the Strider in-game.

[woboin]

Fake.

[Wax1Wax0]

Ah, crap ...

What gave it away?

[jkjkjij22]

you didnt make it?

[alexanderbam]

doesint anyone read the description anymore

[Frogster7]

wtf it's an animation test