Vertex Animation

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Makepool (Posted 2005) [#1]

I'm trying to export a model using vertex animation as a B3D file but it does seem to work. Do B3D models support vertex animation, if so how do you do in with Pipeline and if not what model formats do?

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2005) [#2]

B3D only support bones animation. You need to animate the bones that are "parents" of the vertices. You could even use one bone for each vertex, but this will be kind of slow AFAIK. Probably you better write your Import function that will read the vertex Animation Data to some arays, banks etc. then Animate them "manually".

Makepool (Posted 2005) [#3]

Okay so B3D doesn't support vertex animation, do any other file formats?

Ezbe (Posted 2005) [#4]

MD2's use vertex animation, if I recall correctly.

Zenith (Posted 2005) [#5]

I think the directX 7 file format is vertex animation also, but I could be horribly wrong.