Re: [Algorithms] Quaternion animation strategy

[Matt J <mjo...@gm...>]

Yes, it should. Your explanation makes complete sense. Thanks again.

Matthew


> > One final question, I understand simply storing all the bones in the
> > array, but in order to render a bone, it has to be aware of its parent
> > bone's relative effect on the transformation, correct? It would seem yo=
u
> > would still want to use the concept of a tree structure but your just
> > storing the bones in an array and say, using an index/handle instead of
> > a pointer to reference it?  Or, is there another technique you use, say=
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> > like, propogating affine transformations made from one bone to the
> > children of that bone?
>
> Yeah it is still hierarchical, I just wanted to differentiate it from
> the typical rooted tree concept for clarity. Each bone maintains a
> parent index and then calculating the transforms becomes a single pass
> through the array from left to right, provided you store the bones in a
> topologically sorted order.
>
> Hope that clarifies things.
>