Some (idle) reflections about animation.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:04 pm
Hello,
I tried to give a gun to Sydney (md2 model from media directory of Irrlicht's samples). Alas, I rapidly understood that md2 formats (and all morphing animation based formats) were not designed for this kind of stuff.
Ok, so what's else ? Skeletal animation with bones, nice!
Not so fast, John, it's not quite as simple as that.
1) what format ?
So you have the choice:
2) what tools ?
For Blitz conversions, Milkshape seems to be the best.
For modelling, i think Blender is the best (but for exporting ?)
Which tools are you using ? I mainly develop with Linux, but i can use MS-Windows as well if there are no others choices.
3) api change since Irrlicht 1.4
I read that there's some api changes in skeletal animation, since 1.4.
I can't find again the thread again in Irrlicht forums, but i'm sure i read something about this.
Thanks for reading.
I tried to give a gun to Sydney (md2 model from media directory of Irrlicht's samples). Alas, I rapidly understood that md2 formats (and all morphing animation based formats) were not designed for this kind of stuff.
Ok, so what's else ? Skeletal animation with bones, nice!
Not so fast, John, it's not quite as simple as that.
1) what format ?
So you have the choice:
- X (microsoft format) : seems not advised to use in Irrlicht.
ms3d (milkshape) : seems to be good, better than X, in any case.
b3d (Blitz format): seems to have the best support in Irrlicht.
2) what tools ?
For Blitz conversions, Milkshape seems to be the best.
For modelling, i think Blender is the best (but for exporting ?)
Which tools are you using ? I mainly develop with Linux, but i can use MS-Windows as well if there are no others choices.
3) api change since Irrlicht 1.4
I read that there's some api changes in skeletal animation, since 1.4.
I can't find again the thread again in Irrlicht forums, but i'm sure i read something about this.
Thanks for reading.