Wrong use of bones in .x export?

fortikur · Post by **fortikur** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:59 pm

Hi all!

I don't know, what i'm doing wrong. I've beeen reading forums and websites concerning .x export from 3Ds MAX 5, but no use. I cannot find any answer to my problem.
Ok, the situation is the following: i want to export a model with bones (no ik, only skin) to x with Panda, to use it under Irrlicht. I rig the model right. I even give it an animation, which looks fine, but when I open it in Irrlicht, everything looks weird. As if the bones would have moved somewhere else. It's the same thing for MeshViewer. I included here some links to the animation.

These are the pictures of a "finger" in MAX 5. Used 3 bones and 1 Editable Mesh (no boolean, or anything on the stack, just Ed.Mesh and Skin)

http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/1.jpg
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/2.jpg
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/3.jpg

And this is what I got in Irrlicht and under MeshViewer:
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/4.jpg
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/5.jpg
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/6.jpg

I couldn't find a post concerning this problem, so now I'm desperate...

Please, help! Please, plaase, please

panoramix · Post by **panoramix** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:40 pm

well... I was about to say the usual stuff... like make it one piece etc, until I actually looked at the screenshots. I have no idea what can cause that sort of artifact. Show us the envelopes please... oh, and watch out for painting the weights on the vertices, it's know for non-working right.

fortikur · Post by **fortikur** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:16 am

Sorry, for not having answered sooner, but I had a lot of things to do for Christmas.
Ok. The envelopes look like this:
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/7env.jpg
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/8env.jpg
http://www.kokany.freesite.hu/irrlicht/9env.jpg

I hope this will help...