On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:06 PM, John F. Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > So, OSG powers that be, ...
heh, we have seen the Powers That Be, and They is Us! :-) -- mew > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy > Moles > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:31 PM > To: OpenSceneGraph Users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] Collada Animation > > > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:20 +0100, Kim C Bale wrote: > > I've been using the Feeling Software ColladaMax exporter for 3DSMax to > > export models so that I may use them in OSG. Now plain models work a > > treat. However, I have been given a file that contains an animation, > > and the animations don't appear to show when I load them into > > osgViewer. > > > > > > > > I had a feeling that they wouldn't, but is there something that I can > > do to enable them? Does anybody have any experience getting Collada > > model animations into osg? Is it supported at all? > > A "standard" system for skeletal animation is something OSG currently > lacks. There was some discussion some months back about settling on one, > but that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. > > For now, your main option is Cal3D. However, when I'm done with > osgWidget I'll probably devote that new time to helping Cedric Pinson > more with AnimTK, which I really believe to be a great toolkit (though > we'll have to eventually address it's usage of the GPL). I've already > contributed a bit to it and can speak for it's soundness, and both > myself and Cedric use Blender a great deal--so it's exporter there will > be rock solid. :) > > I've made some videos of AnimTK mixing some simple animations from a > model made in Blender, they're on the osgWidget website (because it also > uses a simple osgWidget::Frame window :)) > > http://osgwidget.googlecode.com > > I can tell you this though: AnimTK is divorced from any kind of mesh > format, so it wouldn't be impossible for the Collada plugin to use it to > facilitate it's animation in OSG one day... > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Kim. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **************************************************************************** > ************* > > To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to > http://www.hull.ac.uk/legal/email_disclaimer.html > > > **************************************************************************** > ************* > > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > -- Mike Weiblen -- Austin Texas USA -- http://mew.cx/ _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
