I have made a model with a skeleton
.

I am trying to code to move its head manually.(Just like the tutorial)

But it doesn't work.Am I missing something?There was a green arrow with the head of the skeleton.Is it something to do with the orientation.

Arrow on the head show position for camera (First person)

Quote:cskel.getBone("head")

Arrows on hands show position to for example put equip item.

So, i dont need to think about that green arrow while trying to custom animate the head...ok

but how do I do it?

Does every bone has a local rotation axis?Is the straight line shows Y axis?

yeah, this is the Orient::perp (Y axis)

Can you please tell me how do I orient the head manually?

just like the code in the picture or posted before.

You need to add this line:

(06-02-2010 06:24 PM)Driklyn Wrote:  You need to add this line:

Code:

cskel.updateMatrix(MatrixIdentity).updateVelocities();

According to tutorial, updateVelocities()'s use is "this is needed for Motion Blur effect".

So, it is not needed.
Thought, i checked it and as i suspected.It dont work.

I suppose you don't need updateVelocities() if you're not planning on using motion blur, but you still need updateMatrix().

Those three lines are all you need. If you are using a first-person camera for the character you are trying this on, try switching to third-person.

this is the code that i used....it's walk_forward.anim works...but head orientation doesn't.

Complete source code and the mesh is attached.

Apparently there has to be some sort of animation already loaded on the skeleton for it to work.

Change this:

To this:

And it will work.

(06-04-2010 04:56 AM)Driklyn Wrote:  To this:

Code:

cskel.clear();    
cskel.animate(L"obj/chr/dino/walk_forward.anim", Time.time());

Orient &head=cskel.getBone("head").orn;
head*=Matrix3().setRotateZ(Sin(Time.time()*1.5));

And it will work.

gosh......thanks a lot.

I thought, I will never be able to figure out the problem.

But, still I dont understand, you are saying that "some sort of animation already loaded on the skeleton for it to work."..but why that should be a problem?Cause, multiple animation can be there in a single skeleton..right?

Moreover, It(ckel.animate) required a key press...so, that line shouldn't exits or execute before that...so, by default the head should be moving...if we think of your's saying that "there is already another animation on the skeleton"

Again, when I use following code
(removed the ckel.animate line)

This should animate the head because, there is no other animation.

Put this logic aside, I dont find a reason why nothing happens?

Why all the animation's has to work together?and why the "head animation" has to be coupled with another animation(.anim file) to make it work?

Couldn't tell you the exact reasoning, but I would imagine that if there is no animation set to the skeleton, the engine skips over it entirely so it doesn't have to waste processing power or something along those lines.

After calling cskel.clear(), cskel.getBone("head") seems to have no effect until an animation is set. This probably won't be too much of a problem though because your character should always have some kind of animation set to it.

Just figured out by looking at a different tutorial that it is possible to do without an animation.

All you need is this one line:

yeh..it worked.[/align]

I actually needed that.Because, when your character is standing still and you are looking at different direction with mouse, then you may want to move it's head independently.