3DS animation

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:43 pm

Sorry, if I missed something, but I have a small question: how to run 3ds mesh animation. I mean I've created a very simple animation in 3D Max and exported it in 3ds format. Then I'm loading it in Irrlicht as following

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IAnimatedMesh* mesh = scene->getMesh("box.3ds");
IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* box = scene->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode(mesh);

It loads it successfully but doesn't animate it. Also pMesh->getFrameCount() returns 1, however I'm sure that there are more than one (actually 40) frames in it (when I import it into 3D Max back it shows me all those frames).

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanx in advance.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:37 pm

Guys, it's really important for me. If you don't understand my question or there is not enough info in it - tell me please. Cause as far as I've seen in code there are only MD2 and MS3D animated mesh interfaces.

Tell me that I'm wrong, cause I really don't want to create Skeletal animation in Milkshape 3D "point by point"...

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:07 pm

Never worked in 3ds, but if there's an option to export animations, make sure its checked. If using milkshape, it cannot export animated 3ds, only static one.

P.S. It was only an hour after your first post, make sure to give people some time to answer

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:10 pm

Yes, you right (about time) but I've seen some guru-guys here in that hour

keless · Post by **keless** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:54 pm

yah, i was here-- but i havent played with anything other than MD2, so I couldnt answer. sorry

disanti · Post by **disanti** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:28 am

Don't use 3DS for animation, you will get nowhere in game dev with that. Use MD2 for all animations when using Irrlicht. MS3D is horrible. I hate Milkshape, but that is because I have 3ds Max

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:50 pm

First of all - really thanx for your replies (seriously).

It really sounds good

Q: Can I use it?
A: Doesn't matter! It's suxx! Better use another stuff

I'm completely new with MD2 (I even played Q2 just a couple of times

) so I have no idea how to create animation with this format... But it's not a problem to learn something new - the question is only: are MD2 animations good enough? I mean, I've noticed in Milkshape 1.7.0 that MD2 exporter has limitation in about 4096 polygons per model. Is this a Milkshape's threshold or a MD2 format specification?

Anyway, disanti, I'm appreiate for your advice and have some simple questions to you:
1. if you're working with 3D Max then you probably creating scenes (meshes) there, and animating them with MD2 later on, aren't you?
2. If so, could you tell me a little more specific what fomats do you use for transferring and what editor do you use to create MD2?

Thanx in advance and sorry for such a long post.
Still wainting for you answers

P.S.: BTW, 3D Max has a Charachter studio where you don't have to make your skeletal animation "point by point" as, for example, in Milkshape.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:35 pm

Apologies for hi-jacking a thread and sorry for the complete noob question; but am I right in assuming that Irrlicht ony supports MD2 files for animation then???

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:46 pm

Hey! He is not me

rogerdv · Post by **rogerdv** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:18 pm

Irrlicht, AFAIK, only supports animations in md2 and ms3d files.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:14 am

rogerdv, Join me to your QQ:44004210
Pls sign about: irrlicht

rogerdv · Post by **rogerdv** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:39 pm

QQ? you mean ICQ?