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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / saving the animation data

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TheComet
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 02:22
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Hi guys!

So, why are the "save object animation" and "load object animation" obsolete now? Even "set object keyframe" is obsolete... How can I save the animation data of an object to a file? Basically, I'd like to have a system where I can append one set of animation data to any object (with the same amount of limbs). How else could I achieve this?

I know that Enhanced Animations can do it, but is that really the only way?

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Robert The Robot
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 17:09
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Quote: "I know that Enhanced Animations can do it, but is that really the only way?"

Effectively, yes.

To extract the animtion data manually, you can open the .X file in notepad. As long as it's ASCII text, the animation data is usually located in a hge list at the end (Starts with "AnimationSet", continues with a series of templates called "Animation keys").

You could then manually copy the keyframe data over to the neobject by pasting it in one limb at a time. If the file is a .X binary, or a .dbo, there isn't a thing you can do.

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DVader
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Posted: 8th Apr 2010 19:47
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Would append object work for you?

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TheComet
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Posted: 8th Apr 2010 20:07
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@DVader

Not exactly. I'd like to use "append object animation", which is now also obsolete...

Let's say I had 2 models:

model1.x
model2.x

And I had an animation file

animation.anim

In DBC It was possible to append the animation to any object, so I would be able to use:

load object "model1.x",1
load object "model2.x",2

append object animation 1,"animation.anim"
append object animation 2,"animation.anim"

(Can't quite remember the syntax of that command, is that correct?)

I'd like to do that with DBP somehow. How could I do that?

@RTR

I am using an ASCII based .X format, but it is boned animation. Does that still work?

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