Getting blender 2.5 animated meshes into Irrlicht

Rocko Bonaparte · Post by **Rocko Bonaparte** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:33 am

I have the 2.56 Linux beta from Blender's website and have been learning Blender's basics. I am at the point where I am starting to animate with bones. In Blender I have a few keyframes set, and I can see the model change from keyframe to keyframe. My problem is I just can't get this to show up in Irrlicht at all.

I don't see a Blitz3d exporter for 2.5 so that might make things even more complicated. I am trying to use the DirectX exporter. I do see entries in the .x file for animations, but none end up playing in the MeshViewer. Also I have a model where if I export with animations, the mesh turns up garbled. I am wondering if there's some known method for exporting Blender 2.5 dynamic meshes into Irrlicht.

BassieEnAdriaan · Post by **BassieEnAdriaan** » Sun May 29, 2011 2:57 pm

Hello, I made this account just to reply here, I also thought it would be better to bump one then make a new thread.

I am having exactly the same problem, I did however find a md3 exporter by xembie but I had no luck installing that.

If anyone found a solution please share it!

ChaiRuiPeng · Post by **ChaiRuiPeng** » Sun May 29, 2011 4:41 pm

in order for skinned meshes to work in irrlicht you must have one parent bone for all bones in blender and make sure ALL vertices are mapped to a bone or animated mesh will not work at all.

BassieEnAdriaan · Post by **BassieEnAdriaan** » Sun May 29, 2011 5:03 pm

ChaiRuiPeng wrote:in order for skinned meshes to work in irrlicht you must have one parent bone for all bones in blender and make sure ALL vertices are mapped to a bone or animated mesh will not work at all.

Are you talking about the .x file type?

Update: i've managed to get the .x file type working correctly.

_ph_ · Post by **_ph_** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:00 am

Personally, with blender (2.49), i use the ".b3d" exporter from "gandaldf" which work fine for me.
There is also ".md2" and ".md3" exporter if you prefer.

Rocko Bonaparte · Post by **Rocko Bonaparte** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:53 pm

Yeah 2.49 is easy because the exporters really do work. Anyways for the DirectX importer, some of the stuff above was very relevant. In particular, when doing an animated mesh you have to make sure each vertex has an assignment. Unfortunately the exporters don't make this stuff clear.