Irrlicht Engine

I just can build a MD2 model and some run, idle animation by Milkshape. I load it into irrlicht and it works.

I also heard about some advanced animation skills, such as combine two animations, like wave hands and run by legs.

How to do this? Can milkshape do this?

Milkshape wouldn't do that, i guess you'd just make the two animations in Milkshape and then combine them in irrlicht.

md2 doesn't support more than one animation at a time. You'd have to use skeletal animation for this, or split your mesh into several md3 parts (though md2 would work in that case, too).

I look through some post here, and I get some unclear idea.

Milkshape supports the skeletal animation.

1) I build model and skeletal animation by Milkshape.
2) I export a ms3d model to a B3D model.
3) AnimationSceneNode->setTransitionTime(10);
4) AnimationSceneNode->setJointMode(2);
5) IBoneSceneNode* arm = AnimationSceneNode->getJointNode("arm");
6) arm->animateJoints();
7) arm->setFrame("waveHand"); // how to set frame
IBoneSceneNode* leg = AnimationSceneNode->getJointNode("leg");
9) leg->animateJoints();
10) arm->setFrame("run");
11) showAll()

Does this work? I havn't tried this, because I don't know how to set two different frame loop in one animated scene node.

JP wrote:Milkshape wouldn't do that, i guess you'd just make the two animations in Milkshape and then combine them in irrlicht.

how to combine?

Jp , hybrid where are you?

interesting topic... how to animate the joints separately in modeling software? any tutorial? thanks.

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Virion wrote:interesting topic... how to animate the joints separately in modeling software? any tutorial? thanks.

I want to know it too. But I think Milkshape can't do this, and b3d model can't do this. To do this, you must use some powerful and special tools and special model format.