I am an animation begginer, please help

hihi, well I've never done any modelling and animation before, but I have just started :D. Basically, I have a VERY simple model I want to try animating, but I just can't get my head around any tutorials. They all either have wording I can't understand, tell me to get certain programmes then give duff links, tell me to use things I never heard of before, ROFL. Can someone please give a quick, plain english explanation of how to actually animate my model, or link me to a good tutorial which is incredibly noob friendly? I have figured out how to attach bones to my model, I think, and they seem to work fine. All I want to do is have a circle which will move back and forth across a backboard (like a blip on a radar kind of thing) And with a smaller circle which will orbit this circle as it moves.

Oh and I am using GMAX, the free one, lol

Thankies and rep for anyone who can take the time to help me here, I'm fed of looking through tutorials I don't understand

You realy disgust me with your use of language. I modified the thread title a bit, because it was pathetic.

You should learn more about how to search
http://www.oregon-coast.net/Tutorial...KeyFrame01.htm

Well, if animation in Gmax is virtually the same as 3DsMax5, I can give you some pointers. So if someone can tell me how similar the two are, I can see if I'd be of any help.

Before starting, keep in mind that the exporter scripts are buggy and incomplete. There's an high chance that the exporting will fail or cause model bugs.

Way to give him some motivation! ^_^

Just get 3dsMax5, damnit.

Advocating warez, are we? Tsk tsk.

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Better than makes him lose his time for nothing. -_-

www.Ebay.com <-- Affordable 3dsMax5

Last time I checked, on ebay there's nothing but books related to max 5. Finding 3ds max 5 now is like finding Jimmy Hoffa.

Jimmy hoffa must be on my computer too!

You just need to have some nice Czech accuaintences, who have the skills to get it.

Internet...

Enough. Back on topic.

OK, thnx TDR, that tutorial helped me get started atlast. One thing though, when I set a point for my blip to move to during the animation, it moves there fine, but on return it overshoots it's original point by miles , anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

P.S Sorry my english offends you so badly, lol.

EDIT: OK, nvm I have managed to do it properly now, so how do I export my model and also set the animation to a stand animation?

I don't know if gmax has a dope sheet editor, but I think it must have (you'll find it in the Graph Editors menu; if it isn't there then I don't know), but if it has then it would be best and more simple to download the art tools and read the documentation about the delimitation of animations, for I supposed it's the same if you export from gmax. Or the exporter (I don't know exporters for gmax) may have a list in wich you type the animation ranges.