Removing bone assignments

[damian0815]

Hi all,

Is there any way to remove bone assignments? I'm working on a system to allow parts of a skeletal animated mesh to be controlled by softbody physics (FEM) and I need to be able to clear the bone assignments on the FEM target vertices so that the skeletal animation doesn't put the vertices in a different reference frame to the FEM.

I can't assign all the vertex bone weights to 0 as that causes NaN's for the weights passed to the hardware buffer by _rationaliseBoneAssignments (called by _compileBoneAssignments).

Here's what I have:

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	const set<size_t>& vertexGroup = ...; // set of vertex indices to clear bone assignments
		
	// loop through all bone assignments and zero the weight
	for ( auto &it: mEntity->getMesh()->getBoneAssignmentIterator() ) {
		size_t vertexIndex = it.first;
		// only clear bone assignments for vertices that are in the vertexGroup
		if ( vertexGroup.count(vertexIndex) {
			Ogre::VertexBoneAssignment& assignment = it.second;
			// hack to avoid NaN when all weights are 0
			assignment.weight = 0.00000001f;
		}
	}
	// (re)-compile the bone assignments
	mEntity->getMesh()->_compileBoneAssignments();

I don't like the hack What I really want is to be able to do this:

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	// remove all bone assignments for given vertex
	mEntity->getMesh()->clearBoneAssignments(ogreVertexIndex); 

or

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	// remove bone assignment for given vertex and bone
	mEntity->getMesh()->removeBoneAssignment(ogreVertexIndex, boneIndex); 

Any options I haven't thought of?

[dark_sylinc]

You're right, there's no function provided to remove assignments (except for clearBoneAssignments which removes all of them), and adding the function to the library seems like the best bet.

Keep something in mind: ALL vertices need to be assigned to at least one bone. You can workaround this problem by creating a dummy node with an identity transform and assign the vertex to that bone.