Problems exporting animated meshes(.x) ( 3dsmax 9)

megaten · Post by **megaten** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:36 pm

Hello there,
I'm new to Irrlicht(only several tutorials away) and there was a problem I encountered when exporting animated meshes into .x format
in irrEdit the model looks like that after exporting

It seems for some reasons when exporting, the "mirrored" bones I made during modeling process are screwd up

Here's the settings I use when exporting

Is there a way to fix it? The model contains a lot of animation, remaking it will require a lot of time.
Thanks in advance

megaten · Post by **megaten** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:58 pm

Whoops %)
Shouldn't have rushed with making topic, problem solved with using b3d exporter instead

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:27 pm

yay! congratulations on your first test load.

there are snippets of code in here that will animate the model.

good luck and have fun.

JP · Post by JP » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:50 am

It might be worth uploading a copy of the .x version so the devs can have a look at it if they think this is something they can fix.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:06 pm

Yes, please do. Most of us don't have access to expensive modeling software, we rely on users to upload buggy meshes so we can fix the mesh loaders.

fmx · Post by **fmx** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:07 am

are you using Bipeds or your own bone-heirarchy?

i myself use 3DS Bipeds to export out to .X through Panda, and my settings are exactly the same as yours except in the 3DSMax Options I don't export Dummy objects

have you tried playing with some of the other settings (eg, exporting using "Key Frames Only" instead of "sampled", etc)?