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Skeletal Animation with UV seams
I have a UV-mapped model that I am about to animate and load into my game. Like most unwrapped models, I have several UV seams. In order to render the model correctly, I split each vertex along the ...
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Efficient skeletal animation
I am looking at adopting a skeletal animation format (as prompted here) for an RTS game. The individual representation of each model on-screen will be small but there will be lots of them!
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How to programatically retarget animations from one skeleton to another?
I'm trying to write code to transfer animations that were designed for one skeleton to look correct on another skeleton. The source animations consist only of rotations except for translations on the ...
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Frame Interpolation issues for skeletal animation
I'm trying to animate in-between keyframes for skeletal animation but having some issues. Each joint is represented by a quaternion and there is no translation component. When I try to slerp between ...
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Calculating a quaternion so a bone points in a specified direction
In an attempt to solve this question, I decided to figure out the absolute (world space) directions of each joint in the source pose (as normalized unit vectors), and then rotate the joints of the ...
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Skeletal Animation - Automatically apply skeleton to model
Looking at websites such as mixamo.com or some game's development systems such as the animation editor for Overgrowth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RpqbC5-Z0E), i see that the skeleton in these ...
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Simulating a 3D body with a skeleton in iOS
I would like to make an iOS application that simulates a 3D body with joints and bones, but I am not sure how to do that. The aim of the app is that you can move its arms around and throw it around (x ...
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Connecting 2D skeletal animation to physics engine
I'd like to use skeletal animations in my 2D game, and since I already use Box2D as the physics engine, I'd like to enable (but not enforce) ragdoll animations as well. I need some help in figuring ...
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Fitting 3D points representing bones to a BVH animation file
I am developing a motion capture animation system and I want my data to be stored within a BVH file. At the moment I have measured the size of the actor so I can create the hierarchy of the BVH file. ...
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Exporting Blender bones
I wrote an exporter for blender models that works great for meshes. I'm attempting to extend that to bones defined in blender. However I haven't found good information for exporting bone data. How can ...
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Rendering skinned model with DirectX
I'm learning character animation with DirectX 9, and I'm new to 3D programming too.
I'm trying to use examples with my model that I'll be working with. They are from the book Character Animation with ...
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Does md2 support skeletal meshes?
I'm creating an FPS game. I'm writing my own game engine. So far all the backend stuff is going great. I'd like to support md2 as the native file format for 3D Objects, but I also want to use skeletal ...
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Creating a 2D skeleton animation system for use with Panda3D
Hey. I want to be able to create a system for 2D skeletal animation in my game. I'm using panda3d as my game engine. I'd like to be able to make simple bone structures and skin them with my sprites. I ...
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2D Skeletal Animation Transformations
I have been trying to build a 2D skeletal animation system for a while, and I believe that I'm fairly close to finishing. Currently, I have the following data structures:
struct Bone {
Bone ...
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Who know how to implement the 2D bone animation showed in the game?
I wonder how do they implement the bone animation in the flash game http://www.foddy.net/athletics.swf Do you know any study materials which I can start to learn 2D bone system from? I just ...
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How can I integrate IK into a hierarchical editing environment?
I have a situation where I'm trying to push the output of an IK solver back into a user editable joint hierarchy (which stores components as it's primary source), and I'm not sure how to go about it.
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anyone knows any open skeletal/bones 2d animations framework for java?
Some examples could be the animations framework used in Aquaria, or in Crimson Legend.
