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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Problems with Max bones, Animation, Rigging & DirectX

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Kenn
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Posted: 21st Jul 2008 20:29
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Hi, I've come along way with my game project and I've run into another wall. I can't get the animations correct. I'm having a bones issue. I'm not sure if its me or the conversion program, Panda Exporter. When I animate with bones and export them to .X files and play the animation its all screwed up. I'm seriously puzzled.

Can someone explain the process for using bones, skin, max, and what not. Are there any limits on the amount vertices or something. I don't have any examples because I'm at work and I don't think it would help. The animation is just screwed up and the mesh just goes crazy. I searched the forum also. I attached every vertex giving everyone weight. I'm just puzzled.

Could someone help. I should be able to do everything in Max and I really don't fill like learning or buying a new program.
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Bad Monkey
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2008 08:29
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You can do everything with max. What I do is I use the physique modifier. It works perfectly. I never got the skin modifier to work with pandasoft.

Also, you need to hide all the bones before you export, this ensures that the bones don't show up inside you game.


I think that physique has a limit to how many bones effect how many verts, but I don't remember exactly, maybe up to three.

Are you using the biped structure or your own bones?


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Kenn
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2008 08:34
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I use Bones with Skin. Physique seems more complex, maybe because I don't know how to use it but it your telling me it will work I will learn it. I'm not using Biped.
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2008 09:14 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2008 09:15
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I use physique all the time to create my fpscreator characters. I've never used it for any custom bones, however, I've only ever used it with the biped structure. But I'm certain it'll work.

Physique is really quite simple. It's all in the tutorial section: help>>tutorials then type in "physique" in the search bar, and go to the first tutorial that pops up "Applying the Physique Modifier". That should be it.


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Kenn
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2008 14:08
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I use DBP.
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