Irrlicht 3d animation concern

[danielmccarthy]

Hi,
I was wondering if their is a way in Irrlicht to use the same animations on other models without needing to remake them.

I am asking this because lets say I have a zombie in my game and he has an animation where he crawls out of the ground. Then I have my player and their is a quest where he is burried alive and crawls out. These are just examples of course but it seems silly to have to remake the animation twice. It seems to me it should be as simple as making a function and calling it 'setAnimation' then you pass an animation number and it will play that animation no matter the mesh. Obviously some models won't be compatible with certain animations but it makes sense to me to have this sort of setup because in my game their will be a lot of player like characters and similarities.

For example a cat and a dog both have four legs so to me it wouldn't hurt to use the same walking animation.

Thanks,
Dan

[CuteAlien]

You need ISkinnedMesh::useAnimationFrom to use the animation from another skinned mesh.

[danielmccarthy]

Thanks mate

[danielmccarthy]

Any code examples the reference in Irrlicht is returning a bool so I am a bit confused how to use this?

[kklouzal]

Check the API http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... 361bf142be

[danielmccarthy]

Ok I get a rough idea, How do I get the skeletal mesh of a node and then set it to another node

[CuteAlien]

There are getMesh functions and you can cast to ISkinnedMesh when you know you have one. There could be some threads around the forum when you search for "useAnimationFrom" - maybe one of those helps. Unfortunately we have no official example yet for this use-case.

[danielmccarthy]

Ok thanks