Well,
I'm talking about simple animated figures.
Like the Life Boat animations or dock peeps.
Not the Crew animations yet.
(Although they can be done the same way to some extent)
Adding crew running from explosions, jumping overboard and such,
is fairly simple yes.
Doing all the different animations is a time eater!
That's why I asked if there's interest in a way to allow nearly anyone
to create simple animations useing Stick Men.
The programs are free, not hard to learn, and no 3D tools are needed.
You create the motions,
others import them into 3D programs and create the final obj files.
Then others could do the final import to dats for inclusion to SH3.
So Sailor Steve does a Stick Man playing Craps.
Sends the file up.
I grab it and do the needed objs for animation import.
I send it up.
Aces looks at it and says 'That would be great in the Bunkers mod!'
He grabs the files and now we have guys
shooting Craps in a corner somewhere!
Or people takeing wounded on stretchers off to a waiting ambulance.
The sky is the only limit on what could be done.