Animated Vertex Position

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Uncle (Posted 2009) [#1]

Hello, Sorry if this question has been ask before, but I would like to find the position of the vertext of an animated mesh. I have routine to scan through all the vertices of a mesh, but it doesnt seem to work with animated b3d models. Cheers, Unc

simonh (Posted 2009) [#2]

Copy the VertexX, VertexY, VertexX functions, rename them to AnimVertexX, etc, and change the 'verts' arrays to 'anim_verts'.

Uncle (Posted 2009) [#3]

Thanks Simon. I will give it a go :)

Uncle (Posted 2009) [#4]

Hi Simon, I followed your advice, but I can't seem to find the correct verts array to reference i.e. 'anim_verts'. I looked in the source code for the TSurface type but don't see any references to an array which stores the animated vertexs? Am I missing something? I hope you can point me in the right directions. Cheers, Unc

simonh (Posted 2009) [#5]

Sorry, I got that wrong. There isn't a separate anim_verts array, but instead animated meshes have a separate anim_surf, which you then need to use with the standard VertexX/Y/Z commands.

Uncle (Posted 2009) [#6]

Cheers Simon and thanks for the pointers. I think I have got it working now.