how to export an animated 3d model?

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:34 am

hi, i'm a newbie here and in 3d games
i'm now making a 3d racing game, and i hv created some animated 3d models with 3d max studio 9
the problem is, how to export the mesh with animation so that it can run in irrlicht ??
i tried to export it in both .3ds and .x format, both do not hv any animation exported, just a static mesh.
but when i import a .md2 mesh (the one from tutorial) without changing in any code, the animation works fine.
Is there any problems on my export method / mesh??

jingquan · Post by **jingquan** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:24 am

.x files supports animation, and i'm using them all the time for animated meshes. .3ds doesn't hold animations.

Perhaps it's your exporter.

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:26 am

jingquan wrote:.x files supports animation, and i'm using them all the time for animated meshes. .3ds doesn't hold animations.

Perhaps it's your exporter.

yes, i have tried with .x files too, but it doesnt work also

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:38 am

anyone can help me

still not fix it yet.
Is there any special sittings required, or something needed to handle when making the model?
by the way, is it that I need to make every frame as a key frame in order to get it animated in .X ? I saw that in the panda site said that the exporter can not handle tweent motion........

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:52 am

In order to get animations with .x (or .ms3d, .b3d) you need skeletal animations, not just keyframes. Only md2 and md3 do interpolated keyframe animation.

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:49 am

that's what i'm doing. I used skeleton to control the movement of my model. I turned a the skeleton to make the model's head to turn in a few keyframes. But it doesn't work when i put that into my game

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:10 am

Did you try to load it with the meshviewer (from Irrlicht) and MView from the DX SDK? At least the latter should show the animation, otherwise soemthing went completely wrong. If *only* the latter show the animation you should upload the mesh somewhere for us to check why it does not work as expected. Just to be sure: You're using latest Irrlicht 1.4 SDK? Because the .x loader changed pretty much compared to older releases.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:22 pm

Check here how I exported successfully a animated mesh from 3dsMax9 to .x:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=23705

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:41 am

i tried to load it into IrrEdit, no sign of animation

omg, i dont know what's wrong
maybe I will upload my mesh here later.

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:51 pm

killerjacky wrote:i tried to load it into IrrEdit, no sign of animation
omg, i dont know what's wrong
maybe I will upload my mesh here later.

sorry I was busying other things these days...........
I still cannot make this thing move

the .x file:
ftp://cs_wykac@ihome.ust.hk/smallcube.X

please help

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:04 pm

Sorry, cannot be downloaded (maybe a password is needed?)

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:45 pm

sorry about that
please try this one
http://rapidshare.com/files/93689653/smallcube.X.html

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:47 pm

The animation is simply static

All the frames are exactly the same, so the animation is running, but you won't notice anything...

killerjacky · Post by **killerjacky** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:39 pm

hybrid wrote:The animation is simply static All the frames are exactly the same, so the animation is running, but you won't notice anything...

oh

how come, maybe I upload the .max file for you to have a look
it's not static

http://rapidshare.com/files/93951495/tu ... y.max.html

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:56 am

You will also have to upload the max key for me

Well, just play around with your exporters and double-check also with other tools. Once you're sure that you have an animated mesh which can be loaded by Irrlicht put that one up.