[Solved] Mesh Tangent and B3D Animation
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:53 pm
Hi, I was fallowing the per-pixel-light tutorial, and worked fine for static meshes.
Then, i tried to use this effect on Animated Meshes.. but it didn't work..
main problem is: createMeshWithTangents from meshManipulator only returns a IMesh, and I need a IAnimatedMesh
Ok, then i found another function in meshManipulador, called createAnimatedMesh
So, the current pipeline is:
mesh = createMeshWithTangents
animatedmesh = createAnimatedMesh(mesh)
but, the animations didn't work
the second param in createAnimatedMesh is the type of the animation, wicht can be:
No B3D.. i tried some of these formats, but got some crashes..
The question is: how to use animated B3D models with tangents to get per-pixel-light effect?
Blender don't exports with tangents.. the only way is using meshManipulator..
edit
found two topics about bump/normal and animations
they say animated models cant have normal mapping effect, since the tangents needs to be recalculated every frame
but, i saw in another topic that the new version of animation in irrlicht supports it. am i right?
edit and solution
just navigating at the forum to see stuffs.. and i found the solution u_u
from: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=36637
Then, i tried to use this effect on Animated Meshes.. but it didn't work..
main problem is: createMeshWithTangents from meshManipulator only returns a IMesh, and I need a IAnimatedMesh
Ok, then i found another function in meshManipulador, called createAnimatedMesh
So, the current pipeline is:
mesh = createMeshWithTangents
animatedmesh = createAnimatedMesh(mesh)
but, the animations didn't work
the second param in createAnimatedMesh is the type of the animation, wicht can be:
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EAMT_UNKNOWN
EAMT_MD2
EAMT_MD3
EAMT_OBJ
EAMT_BSP
EAMT_3DS
EAMT_MY3D
EAMT_LMTS
EAMT_CSM
EAMT_OCT
EAMT_SKINNEDThe question is: how to use animated B3D models with tangents to get per-pixel-light effect?
Blender don't exports with tangents.. the only way is using meshManipulator..
edit
found two topics about bump/normal and animations
they say animated models cant have normal mapping effect, since the tangents needs to be recalculated every frame
but, i saw in another topic that the new version of animation in irrlicht supports it. am i right?
edit and solution
just navigating at the forum to see stuffs.. and i found the solution u_u
from: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=36637
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IAnimatedMeshSceneNode heroMesh = smgr->getMesh(meshPath);
((scene::ISkinnedMesh*)heroMesh)->convertMeshToTangents();