Joints?

Lorian · Post by **Lorian** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:35 pm

How would I go about giving a body joints? Ie. instead of having a bunch of different meshes for arms and legs and so on, have joints in parts of the body mesh so the mesh would change shape when told to do so by the physics engine. I am basically looking to use ragdoll physics when the player dies.

Cheers.

Prott · Post by **Prott** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:34 pm

Irrlicht itself can`t set joint`s position or rotation. Try IrrExtensions.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:14 pm

That's right !!!

Irrlicht supports predefined bone animations (for example with .x and .ms3d)...
If you want to set the bone (joint) rotations by yourself (for example for ragdolls or to create an own animation player) Irrlicht doesn't support this...

With my IrrExtensions you can add my CustomBones extension to Irrlicht !!!

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:30 pm

Prott wrote:Irrlicht itself can`t set joint`s position or rotation. Try IrrExtensions.

That's incorrect.
It can in the SVN.
Hell, it might be able to in 1.2

Just use B3D (I'm not sure if .X or MS3D have the support, but I think they do).

Lorian · Post by **Lorian** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:07 am

I'm guessing B3D is a file format? I will talk to my modeller later to see if he knows how to do joints in 3DS Max.

Thanks for the help.

roxaz · Post by **roxaz** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:53 pm

i saw very easy-to-use joints in MilkShape. try out