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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Blending Bones Animation

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Bulleyes
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Posted: 6th Jul 2003 16:32
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Hi,

Can DBpro blends bones animation? For example, let say I have a model with the following animations:

1. Walk Cycle
2. Run Cycle
3. Left arm punching
4. Right arm punching

What if I want to make the character walking, at the same time punching the left arm, or right arm based on user control.

Is there anyway in DBpro that allow me to blend the bones animation, i.e. while animation #1 is playing continously, and at the same time blend with animation #3 or #4.

Thanks!
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Kensupen
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Posted: 6th Jul 2003 19:47
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To my knowledge, you can't blend animations. Think of it as cell animation. If the object has 25 frames, that would be like 25 pictures on a reel. It can't play 2 pictures at one time.

There are two things you could do.
1. Have the legs as one model and the upper body as another. That way you could split the animations and play them separately.
2. Just animate the model to have all the animations you'll need. It takes more setup, but has the best effect in the end.

Then again I could be wrong. I'm no expert on DX or animation, but I haven't seen anything to do what you're asking.

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The Darthster
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Posted: 7th Jul 2003 01:43
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Animate the object entirely in DB using the rotate limb commands. Then, you can mask animations and map them onto each other as much as you want.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 7th Jul 2003 01:49
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bullseye, the way i achieved stuff like that in DB was through a sort of tag system...

each limb would have a seperate animation, so left arm would have walk/punch/block - right would have the same, the body would have swing right/swing left/walk/idle, the legs would have walk/run/idle
and the head would be a freelimb

the way my skeletal system worked was it edited the movement of a mesh a bit like the Mesh deformation demos only using the bone points as pivot points each bone controled a realtive position and assigned vertex...

it ment i could just edit the keyframes of each limb bone rather than the entire mesh skeleton
might have an example around here somewhere but it wouldn't work with dbp in its current state

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You mean you model the different part of the character seperately? Then how you put them together eventually? You use the GLUE LIMB command in DBpro for that?

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