Maintenance Skeletal Mesh Support

[Immortius]

Skaldarnar edit: Added related topic


Name: Skeletal Mesh Support
Summary: Initial, basic support for skeletal mesh and animation
Scope: Engine
Current Goal: -=Done=-
Phase: Maintenance
Curator: Immortius
Related: Skeletal Animation System (closed)

Plan to support the following:

• [Done] Skeletal Mesh asset
• [Done] MD5 format mesh file import (as used in Doom 3)
• [Done] Normal calculation for Skeletal Mesh
• [Done] Skeletal Anim asset
• [Done] MD5 format animation file import
• [Done] Skeletal Mesh Component to drive rendering and animation
• [Done] Skeletal Renderer system to render skeletal meshes
• [Done] CPU skinning
• [Done] Bones represented as a tree of entities, to allow attachment to bones and manual manipulation
• [Done] Simple animation (one animation at a time, on all bones)
• [Done] Animation related events (AnimStartEvent, AnimEndEvent)

Running specific animations on different sets of bones, tweening animations, or manually controlling specific bones during animation are out of scope for this arc.

 

[Immortius]

Programmer art Bob the Guard stands ready.

 

[basilix]

I think with this and the fight system ahead there can be some single player adventure maps made soon
PS:What is wrong with the guard at left side xD

 

[Immortius]

You honestly don't want to see my test maps. They're filled with the grotesque corpses of a hundred mutilated skeletons.

That particular one is left over from when I was testing bone manipulation - forcing the guards to look at the player.

 

[Immortius]

All done now, it is now possible to spawn a galloping pony with the

/spawnPrefab "testmod:pony"

command

 

[Cervator]

Had a chance to test it - nice

Are they just being spawned with a random heading at the moment? I don't seem to be able to catch a relation between the direction I look in + the heading of the spawned pony

Next step I figure might be allowing the model to connect with the floor in a natural fashion while aligned right?

Posted the build to FB

 

[Immortius]

They should be pointed at the player, but there's a bug in there, will fix.

Having the model connect to the floor properly is a collision/ai setup issue, out of scope for this incubator.

 

[poVoq]

How about this?: http://lee.fov120.com/iqm/
It's an much improved format made by a really talented guy (one of the main developers of the Cube2 engine) who got sick dealing with MD5 models
Also has nice working exporters available for Blender3D.

 

[Immortius]

I don't see why not, as long as it supports separate skeleton and animation files (which I would guess it does).

 

[poVoq]

Yes and quite neatly so. Cool that you are willing to implement it!

 

[Cervator]

Yes and quite neatly so. Cool that you are willing to implement it!

Hehe, there's a difference between design compatibility and implementation willingness! Many things to do, little time to do so

Are you up for playing with a sample implementation yourself?

 

[poVoq]

I am sadly not much of a programmer... my skills are in the art department.
I was told though that implementing IQM support is quite strait forward and "easy" to do. So I hope for the best