Skeleton animation

[Boz the virtual being]

I didn't see a topic about skeleton animation.
On the engine features list I read:

Skeletal animation: A skin is manipulated by animated joints. The Irrlicht Engine will do this when loading .ms3d or .x files.[...]

Is it already implemented? Is there any example showing this? Where do I start?

[saigumi]

Yes.

Add an AnimatedMeshSceneNode with your animated mesh.

Also, you can pull joints using GetMS3DJointNode or on a mesh level, getMatrixofJoint

There is a discussion about that at:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=1583

[Boz the virtual being]

Ah that's what I was thinking of.
I don't want to use ms3d but I think I know how to start now, thanks.

[saigumi]

X format has the same getJoint calls. I just use MS3D's, so it's stuck in my mind.

[buhatkj]

does x really have the same joint calls?? i didnt see them in there...
i tried writing my own with the intent to make them a tpim, but they seemingly just dont work. no error, or crash, just has no effect on the position of the child mesh.....wierd...
is the call different??
-Ted

update:digging through the code i think that what may be happening is that the relativetransformationMatrix in C/IdummyTransformationSceneNode may not be getting set for x model the same way as it must for ms3d....now if i can just figure out where that gets set at all.....

update again: found it, it was right under my nose right in the canimatedmeshscenenode, so its fixed now, it updates the dummy node but the matrix appears to be mirrored. its supposed to be attached to his hand, but when his hand move back, the sword moves forward, and its on the wrong side relative to the joint i assigned it.....