exporting from XSI

[the_darkone]

I am testing the XSI exporter and been having some problems, what i have is a simple cube wich i animate it moving around and i put this animation in the animation mixer and just export it all, now loading the mesh and creating an entity works fine but when i try to set the animation i get an error.
I have debuged the program and it seems that when i try to get the animation state object i get a null pointer or somthing, thats the conclusion i got, I also thought that myebe i am not using the right name of the animation state so i thoght to iterate through the animation states and dump then into a text file but when that didn't work i understood that i get a NULL pointer.
I By the way I am not using any skeleton animation.

[sinbad]

Only skeletal and shape key animation is supported since the exporter is an animated model exporter, not a scene exporter. Animate your objects through bones or the shape manager.

[the_darkone]

i thought this is a simple vertex type animation, so there is no way to export an animated object moving around the scene ?

[Kentamanos]

A vertex animation is deforming vertices on a model (like the demo that shows the model "talking").

What you're doing is taking a model and moving it around a scene. That's an animation that would take place at a higher level than the model (at the scene level).

[the_darkone]

ok i understand now but i wtill can't export the animated mesh, i animated it in the sape manager but i still get no animation when i load the mesh in ogre, it just loads its current state in a specific frame when i export.

[Kentamanos]

You've got to do more than just "load the mesh in ogre". I'm not too hip on the details, but you've got to start the animation etc. You might want to take a look at the source code in the demos (or wait for someone with more experience to answer ).

[sinbad]

You also may need to do the XSI shape animation tutorials. Demo_FacialAnimation is directly out of one of those tutorials and uses the shape manager. But yes, as Kentamanos says it won't animate on it's own, you have to write some code to activate the animation and advance the time on it to actually make it happen on screen, since an application has to have control of that kind of thing. For example, the facial animation demo does something like this:

Setup:

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        Entity* head = mSceneMgr->createEntity("Head", "facial.mesh");
	AnimationState* speakAnimState = head->getAnimationState("Speak");
	speakAnimState->setEnabled(true);

Each frame:

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        speakAnimState->addTime(evt.timeSinceLastFrame);