Re: [TuxKart-devel] Character Animation?

[Matze B. <ma...@br...>]

Okay,

I'd also offer my services to write the animation code. Would be nice if 
someone could send me a blender file with a little animation (tux bending 
left/right and tux throwing a banana?). I have to take a more in-depth 
look at what plib has to offer. I must have missed the bone code before.

Greetings,
	Matze

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Steve Baker wrote:

> 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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