Irrlicht Engine

ACE247 du abandoned the project? Very interesting. Will happy to help u somewhat.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... ht=#151841
Code and sample models. Only sceletal (with Skin modifier) animation supported.

B3d to xml converter (pass b3d filename as commandline argument)
http://schola.ru/public/irrlicht/b3ddump.zip (~80 Kb)
Useful to see whats wrong with your b3d models if they are don't loaded to Irrlicht properly.
C++ source code included (it's my first C++ programm and I will glad to see you ...

grayman, Blender is fine, but we are talking about 3D Studio Max exporter)

(( I see, my code is absolute incorrect...
As result we have no solution, only feature request for Irrlicht animation system (in Luke we trust:)) ).
I have created some .b3d animations for testing:
http://schola.ru/public/tmp/b3ds.zip
15.b3d - Red triangle animated but have unanimated parent (green ...

Luke, yes it's good idea to add weights for each vertex (we can animate my triangle by this way)... But .b3d file may contain node without mesh (pivot node in Blitz3D terms). Pivot node may be empty, or may be parent for one or more other nodes. Child nodes may not contain any animations itself, but ...

There are no other b3d animations (as already discussed in a different thread).
I mean non boned animations.
http://schola.ru/public/tmp/triangle.zip - this (very simple, just one rotating triangle) model unanimated in Irrlicht, but animated in Blitz3D, because Irrlicht can't animate non boned ...

christianclavet Irrlicht have some limitations for using .b3d
Succes is possible only for static .b3d meshes, and meshes with sceletal animations.
We probably need to create commandline meshviewer and replace with him original one...
B3DPipeline Extensions unsupported too.

hybrid, Ok. I have corrected my post.
B@z, sorry for desinformation. It's I was wrong)

Nothing changed in .b3d file format structure after second specification was published.

What do you mean by termin "keyframe animation"?

IMHO it's animation defined by series of "keys" (each key stores scale position and rotation of object). When object animated value of key (according to current ...

hybrid, Hm... This spec is probably very oriented to Blitz3D users...
this one may be more helpful: http://www.geocities.com/drago_blitz/B3dFormat.html

hybrid , b3d specification can be found on oficial site of Blitz3D Game Engine
http://blitzbasic.com/sdkspecs/sdkspecs/b3dfile_specs.txt

1) If KEYS chunk appears after BONE chunk - it is skin (or bone-based) animation
2) If KEYS chunk appears after MESH chunk - it is matrix (or scale-move-rotate ...

I'll keep trying to understand how export correctly.

Unfortunately you models will be animated in Irrlicht correctly if they will have ONLY bone-based animations.

Native .b3d engine (Blitz3D) can't load your model. Try to set all weights to 1. Also tell me Max's object name which contains "unweighted" vertex (something like "Bip01 L Thigh"). Can you provide this model in max7 version?

Unfortunately your model have some other issues... Probably .b3d format ...