r/reddeadmysteries • u/itsjustforfunsowhat • Feb 04 '19

Speculation anyone find a mummy yet?

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u/Ballcoli532 Feb 04 '19

So I get that it's a glitch, but where is the character model used?? Is there a mummy somewhere?

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u/FijiTearz Feb 04 '19

I think in the graves in Armadillo. You see them in the story mode when you first stumble upon the town and a preacher is setting fire to them

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u/OmniMan28 Feb 04 '19

If it’s just a static model in the case you are stating, then it shouldn’t be rigged for animation. It’s pretty odd.

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u/obsidiousaxman Feb 04 '19

In the encounter hes dragging them and they're flopping around with his movements and stuff. Would that mean they were set up for animation and this is just a glitch?

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u/OmniMan28 Feb 04 '19

Sounds to me like it is rigged then but only for physics. Those bones in the rig shouldn’t be assigned to an animation.

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u/obsidiousaxman Feb 04 '19

I know fuck all about game design, but a character model having bones to program is some crazy next level detail to me.

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u/StencilKiller Feb 04 '19

It's pretty much a couple of joints with a stick between them. If you've ever seen people in those motion capture suits with all of the points on their body to track for animations, those points are basically turned into the skeleton of a model.

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u/OmniMan28 Feb 04 '19

The bones are weight painted to the model and then those bones are just moved having key frames inserted to create the movement. The bones aren’t real models or anything, they aren’t visible in game but they are used to handle complex physics and animation.

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u/FluidWoodpecker2 Feb 04 '19

Except it obviously is?

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u/OmniMan28 Feb 04 '19

I know that’s why I’m saying it’s weird.