Creating character with a skeleton in blender

Post by **xavier** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:16 am

Blender tutorials at the Blender site.

www.blender3d.org

Find the video tutorials, start with those.

Post by **jacmoe** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:32 am

Here is a couple nice Blender tuts:
http://otothecleaner.free.fr/tutorials/tutorials.html

Create a couple extra bones for your skeleton, and use them to attach things like weapons, camera, etc.

NeOmega · Post by **NeOmega** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:50 pm

Just a couple of quick rules for OGRE compatibility:

no more than 4 bones to a vertice

make sure envelopes are turned off

Only rotation and location animations can be exported, so do not try any scaling animations with your bones.

Forward Kinematics only. You can use IK, (I don't), but if you do, you must bake the animation first, and drop all the extra IK bones.