Skeletal animation - one skeleton for all the meshes?
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:21 pm
I remember when creating models for Half Life 1 that there was only ONE base skeleton which you attached the mesh to. This way you did not have to worry about animating each model but have each model use the same animation data provided by the skeleton.
Now my question: Is something similiar possible in Irrlicht?
When I read about (skeletal) animation with Irrlicht I could only find examples which were loading an .X or .ms3d file and animating the mesh based on the animation data within this file. But I want it so that I only read in the mesh data of several models (and probably the data about which vertexes are connected to which bones) and only load ONE file containing the actual animation data. Since all of my game's protagonists will share a similiar outward appearance(humanoid shape)
it would be nice if they could also share their animations^^
Thanks in advance,
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Now my question: Is something similiar possible in Irrlicht?
When I read about (skeletal) animation with Irrlicht I could only find examples which were loading an .X or .ms3d file and animating the mesh based on the animation data within this file. But I want it so that I only read in the mesh data of several models (and probably the data about which vertexes are connected to which bones) and only load ONE file containing the actual animation data. Since all of my game's protagonists will share a similiar outward appearance(humanoid shape)
it would be nice if they could also share their animations^^
Thanks in advance,
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