How to exported an entity skeleton Animation in 3ds Max?

[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?
?

[Tikoucas]

I never exported animations with Ogremax, but the first thing I would check is if the .skeleton file contains the animation you are expecting.
Try opening your mesh file with OgreMaxWinViewer.exe and play the animation.

Other option would be to get the Ogre command line tools, find the exported .skeleton file and open it with OgreXMLConverter.exe, it will generate a .xml file.

inside the xml file you will find this:

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<skeleton>
	<bones>
         	//; skip all of this
        </bones>
	<bonehierarchy>
		//; skip all of this
	</bonehierarchy>
	<animations>
                <animation name="Walk" length="0.5">  //; Here is your animation

If you can't find the line "<animation name="MyAnimationName" length="x.x">" then it must be a problem with your settings at exporting. Are you using the trial or full version of OgreMax?

If you are capable of playing the animation in OgreMaxWinViewer, try doing something like this in your code:

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AnimationState *mAnimationState;
Entity *body;
const FrameEvent *evt;

animate()
{
    mAnimationState = body->getAnimationState("Walk");
    mAnimationState->setLoop(true);
    mAnimationState->setEnabled(TRUE);
    mAnimationState->addTime(evt.timeSinceLastFrame);
}

This is how I do play animations in Ogre 1.7

Good luck.