Collada Animation

andreasky · Post by **andreasky** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:07 pm

Hi,

I exported via Collada a simple 3D animated model.
Does anyone know how to import animation in Irrlicht? In particular I am interested in importing both "morph" and "skeletal" animation.

In the GUI I found that there is a function called "setMD2Animation", but this works for ".MD2" files.

Thank you.

Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:13 pm

You can't do both skeletal and nonskeletal animations in the same file. If you want to have a character with both types of animations you have to export as two seperate files and attach them in irrlicht. Also you have to make sure the file format you are using supports animation. I have never worked with Collada so i don't know if it does.

btw: you use .md2 for nonskeletal animations

andreasky · Post by **andreasky** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:30 pm

Yes, I know. I did not mean skeletal and morph animation on the same file.

So I would like to know how to run animated 3D models exported via Collada and imported in Irrlicht.

Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:37 pm

It should automatically start playing the animation. If it doesn't, open the MeshViewer and see if it is playing the animation. If not then either it was a bad export or the file format doesn't support animations.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:06 pm

Animations from Collada are not loaded, yet.