Extended Skeletal Animation Support

[Raven]

I've wrote extended skeletal animation support. Features:

* returns bone details (position, orientation, etc)
* returns whenever bone exists or not
* returns number of bones
* returns bone name by index
* implements AttachToBone function



download: [url=http://turniej.unreal.pl/files/RSkeletalMeshEx.zip]RSkeletalMeshEx.zip[/url]
ReadMe @ wiki: http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/UE1:RSkeletalMeshEx

Changelog

v 0.0.2
* added function RSkeletalActor which implements AttachToBone function
v 0.0.1 (first public release)
* added function GetBoneRotation and GetBoneLocation

EDIT:

There's one bug I've found. It doesn't work on animated skeletons . Now I'm trying to figure out how the hell does it work .

[Turboman.]

Sounds very interesting, so this would mean we could attach objects on any part of a character? eg shoulder pads, boots, helmets etc?

Looking into skeletal animation is still on my list of stuff todo, i can import and animate models but the coding side of it is completely unknown to me.

[Raven]

I have few theories I think it works like this:

Each animation has array of AnimSeqs and Moves. If you want to get a move, code will find it by AnimSeqs neme. So (I think) each move describes one animation sequence. In move structure (called MotionChunk) there's AnimTracks array which holds position/orientation of bones in animation. I assume AnimTrack index = bone index. But I have no idea how the hell find correct KeyPos/KeyQuat in AnimTrack array.

Of course all I've managed to do is few more ways to crash UT

[GreatEmerald]

Raven, aren't you going to post this on BUF?
Oh, and good. Wish you could use Ragdolls in UE1. Still, would be nice to see skeletal animated Skaarj