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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XNA: Rotating Bones
XNA 4.0
I am trying to learn how to rotate bones on a very simple tank model I made in Cinema 4D.
It is rigged by 3 bones, Root -> Main -> Turret -> Barrel
I have binded all of the objects to the ...
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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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apply non-hierarchial transforms to hierarchial skeleton?
I use Blender3D, but the answer might not API-exclusive.
I have some matrices I need to assign to PoseBones. The resulting pose looks fine when there is no bone hierarchy (parenting) and messed up ...
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Real Time Motion Retargeting
Using Kinect I've extracted coordinates(x,y,z) of user, I'm in search of method which can help me out transferring motion of Skeleton to any 3D model(AVATAR) using OpenNI and OpenGL.
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importing animations in Blender, weird rotations/locations
This is for the Blender 2.6 API.
There are two problems:
1. When I import a single animation frame from my animation file to Blender, all bones look fine.
But when I import multiple (all of the ...
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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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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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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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exporting bind and keyframe bone poses from blender to use in OpenGL
EDIT: I decided to reformulate the question in much simpler terms to see if someone can give me a hand with this.
Basically, I'm exporting meshes, skeletons and actions from blender into an engine ...
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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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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 ...
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Maya Animated Character export for XNA 4.0 problem
To begin with, I'm trying to export an animated character in .fbx format from Maya 2013 to XNA 4.0
In Maya, The Model has a basic rig and the animations are in clips made in the Trax editor.
so the ...
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Updating physics for animated models
For a new game we have do set up a scene with a minimum of 30 bone animated models.(shooter)
The problem is that the update process for the animated models takes too long.
Thats what I do:
Each ...
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Bone pivot mirroring problem in 3dmax
Im make model with animation in 3dsmax and port it to XNA game. All works fine except one character hand. I suspect its all about pivot and kinematics. When I create hand bone from scratch the ...
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Skeletal Animation in DirectX
A few weeks back I asked the following question: Are there alternatives to Vertex Tweening?
I was pointed towards Skeletal Animation, or more specifically: Hardware Skinning. While I found quite some ...
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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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Calculating the correct roll from a bone transform matrix
Read this forum topic for more info: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?260602-transform-matrix-to-bone-%28head-tail-roll%29-bug
I'm trying to get my Blender3d modeller importer to create ...
