Skeletal animation is a technique in which a character is represented in two parts: a surface representation used to draw the character (skin) and a hierarchical set of interconnected bones (skeleton) used to animate the mesh.
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Are there alternatives to Vertex Tweening?
Now that I'm getting into animating 3D entities in my game, I was wondering what the best approach for this would be. I did some research and came across something called "Vertex Tweening". However, ...
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Mixing kinematics and dynamics in ODE
I am trying to do some animations on characters with a variety of body plans. I am trying to make a system that uses IK for moving end effector positions (some of the time), and use the actual ...
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Animation from bones?
I have a model loaded into my XNA project, it has bones that were created in 3DS Max and I am wondering can I animate my model using code?
All I will be doing is basic movements such as an arm swing.
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Questions about animating in 3DS Max/XNA?
I have never created an animation within 3DS Max before and I have a few questions.
I already have a model with a biped rigged correctly.
Can I have multiple animations within one model?
How are ...
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Adjusting a skeleton to a Specific Stance
Imagine having a climbing wall and you take 4 adjacent handholds and footholds where together they create a stance. Is there any algorithm or technique with which it would give you a realistic human ...
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UDK: Animating characters with weapons
I imported a custom character and a pistol model to UDK and both work, but the pistol doesn't appear with the animation of the pistol when I shoot or reload... Also, the character doesn't change its ...
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Swap limbs of a skinned mesh
If I have a model, such as a robot, I am able to swap its limb meshes out and replace them with other robot limb meshes by merely removing the limb mesh from the skeleton and attaching the new one to ...
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What matrix operations do I perform to translate then rotate then translate then rotate?
In an android game I want to draw a running leg. To output the thigh I do something like:
// legCX,legCY is the location on screen about which the leg rotates.
Matrix m = new Matrix();
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XNA Skinned Model - Keyframe.Bone out of range exception
I'm getting an IndexOutOfRangeException on this line of AnimationPlayer.cs:
boneTransforms[keyframe.Bone] = keyframe.Transform;
I don't get what it's really referring to. The error happens when ...
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Guidelines when rigging a character
Just wondering that how many IK (Inverse Kinematic) bones should you apply to a game character before it starts to go resource hog. Basically should you try to get rid of IK bones and just try to ...
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Armature in Unity3d distorted
On the left is a base mesh with armature in Blender. I imported this model and armature into Unity3d.
The result is on the right. The arms are clearly distorted, and I can't seem to fix it by ...
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How to make model's arms + weapon follow cursor?
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Just like the title says. I currently have my controlling movement working just how I want it to. Now in order to proceed with shooting I first should focus on how the model should look like to ...
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OpenGL GLSL skinning problem
This time I've decided to ask a question related to my skinning problem. Two earlier ones were not really related to my problem and I've deleted them.
Ok, first of all, I'm using OpenGL 3, 3ds max, ...
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Rotating a 2D Skeleton
I am currently implementing a 2D skeleton system in C# with XNA, but got stuck in how I would rotate the bones around a skeleton's axis.
A basic algorithm that I have figured out already would ...
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XNA - How to move skinned model and merge animations
After you helped me to resolve my loadContent problem I've wrote some code and made 3D model with animation. Because XNA 4.0 doesn't support .fbx with multiple animations I've generated 3 models with ...
