Re: [TuxKart-devel] Character Animation?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> Does anybody have some ideas on how we should handle character
> animation? Should we use simple frame based animation or use bones and
> keyframes, probally by using Cal3d.

The Cal3d *runtime* also doesn't fit into the PLIB rendering framework
at all well.  Dunno about any off-line tools they might provide though.

PLIB can do either frame-based, key-frame-with-interpolation or true
skin/bones with either the bones being key-framed or (in principle)
with the bones being driven by some external physics code.

Doesn't Blender have an animation package?   I thought it did. But
whatever we use, I suspect the issues will all be to do with how to
export animations in a way that we can load them.

PLIB also has it's own bone-motion editor (called 'Exposer') which
take bones modelled as line segments within a polygonal skin and
lets you adjust them into different poses at points a long a time-line.
It saves the animations in PLIB's "native" file format - which eliminates
any issues to do with file format translation.

For short/simple animation, Exposer is OK...but it's not real sophisticated.

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