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After much work and heartache I've managed to export an x file from Blender with animation. The file loads and runs perfectly in the viewer that comes with the direct x 9 sdk. I used the first 3d example program that comes with dark basic to load and play the model. It stalls on line 17 saying the model won't animate. The model viewer that comes with dark basic just crashes. I am new to dark basic. Can you help me?

@arlo3d

Hi arlo3d. When I started using DarkBASIC Classic (DBC), I wanted to use Blender. The X export that came with it was for DirectX 8.1 and above and DBC uses direct x 7. So I wrote my own export with animation. The animation that DBC uses does not use bone meshing - so no skeletons. It uses articulated structure animation. That means you have a series of meshes that you relate to one another as parents and children. You then position and rotate these whole meshes and record the key frames for the animation.

I haven't updated my export script pretty much since I wrote it, nor have I updated the website I put up originally, but the script should still be there. The docs are there too so you'll want to look at them to understand how the script is used. Someone wrote me a while back with a texture correction - I'll have to review that and add it. Right now I think in certain circumstances, the texture will be upside down.

http://www.anzwers.org/free/blenderdbc/