Player Character Model animation

[silentpolygon]

Hi everybody,

I just finished a player model i was workin on for the last days and want to take it as the player model. It is modeled in Blender and now it is time to add some bones and animation. This is my first attempt on skeletal animation for a 3D-engine so could you, the devs, please post some data like how many bones your models have that are already in the game, How many frames is your walkcycle using.

Thank you in advance

Greetings
Silentpolygon

(I willl post Images of the model later on)

[SirGolan]

I'd love to see shots of the model when you get a chance. Basically, # of bones and length of walk cycle is up to you. The basic player object included with MV3D doesn't try to do anything fancy with animations, so any length or # of bones is good. If you do want to integrate your model with the basic player object, the only thing you need to do is name the animations correctly. I think they are:

* walk
* idle
* wave
* jump
* kick

Let me know if you need any more info. I'm pretty sure the names are case sensitive.

Thanks,

Mike

[SirGolan]

The only other thing to note is that you can share skeleton files between models in Ogre (to save disk space/download time/memory), but you have to use the exact same skeleton in all the models. I don't know how to do this in Blender. I've only had marginal success in 3ds max (the exporter makes it a pain by deleting bones that aren't used and renumbering them).

Mike

[silentpolygon]

Hi, Heres a rendering with blender itself.

Only the Hands and feet have to be modeled.
After this I will go on with riggging and skinning.

Thank you for your replies.

Silentpolygon

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[SirGolan]

That looks like a great start to me! How many polygons is it?

Guess I'd better get moving on the in game editor!

[silentpolygon]

Hi

It actually has 1406 Polygons(Triangles), is now completely modeled and i have done a runcycle, but
this is stil WIP. Hope you like it.

My next step is to export it to ogre and see if it is ok with the limitations that ogre comes with.

Runtest.rar

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[SirGolan]

Nice.. 1400 tris is pretty good. The animation looks great. It'll be cool to see it in Ogre.