Entity Skeleton Animation

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ProfessorJ
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Entity Skeleton Animation

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How would I go about adding an AnimationState to an existing entity, which has its own skeleton and animation states already?

I have added the animation to the skeleton and I can see that it increments when I call

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mBodyEnt->getSkeleton()->getNumAnimations()
But I don't know how to make it accessible using the following

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mBodyEnt->getAnimationState(...)
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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

Post by Lax »

Hi,

you need to know your animation names, which are defined in a .skeleton file. After that just get the animation state from the given animation name.
For example:

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this->animationState = entity->getAnimationState("YourAnimationName");
if (this->animationState)
{
	this->animationState->setEnabled(true);
	this->animationState->setWeight(5.0f);
	this->animationState->setTimePosition(0.0f);
	this->animationState->setLoop(true);
}
...
Later in update loop call:
this->animationState->addTime(dt * speed / this->animationState->getLength());
There are also tutorial on the Ogre site:
http://wiki.ogre3d.org/Intermediate+Tutorial+1

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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

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Hi.

Thanks for your reply!

What I mean is, after loading a mesh with a skeleton file (which has one animation), then I programmatically add another animation to the skeleton. The entity still has the original animation only, can check this with mBodyEnt->getAllAnimationStates()->getAnimationStateIterator().

I will follow through the tutorial and see if that helps.
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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

Post by Lax »

Hi,

try those methods to signal that something changes and will be re-initialized, although I do not know if it will work;

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entity->addSoftwareAnimationRequest(false);
entity->getAllAnimationStates()->_notifyDirty();
entity->_updateAnimation();
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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

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That helped.. although the only was I could get it to work was with

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        mBodyEnt->_initialise(true);
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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

Post by just_try »

hello
you said "you need to know your animation names, which are defined in a .skeleton file"
how I know because I open the file and I found some symbols I did not understand it?
give me a name of the software or something help me.and thanks?
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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

Post by areay »

If you want to see the names of animations in the .skeleton file you can use the 'OgreXMLConverter' or 'OgreMeshTool' tools that come with ogre to convert your .skeleton file into a .skeleton.xml file that you can eyeball.
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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

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thanks, for your reply :D
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Re: Entity Skeleton Animation

Post by just_try »

Hey again ..
I have a problem..i hope you can help me :(
I imported a virtual human in 3ds max (2015) and I applied a movement ('Walk')(. * bip) .. everything works well in 3Ds Max..
but when I export this entity by (Ogre max) to use it in my 'visual studio' code ..
I can not find the name of the animation performed in the (.skelton) file..Why?
?
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