vertex animations

Hi,

What is the best way to get vertex animations fromout 3dsMax into Blitz? It seems the pipeline only works with bones, and X files too.

Thanks!

Read the manual:

"Exporting Morphs
The B3d Pipeline Exporter can export animated morphs using one bone per vertex in the animated mesh.

NOTE: This feature should be used with caution since it can easily create huge, inefficient files.

Add the User-Defined Property: "B3dMorph " (Case sensitive!) to any objects that you want to export in this manner.

Optimize Keys can help to reduce the size of morph files by reducing the number of animation keys used by the morph."

Actually the manual has a mistake here and I had to correct it.

The pipeline doesn't work with X files at all!

b3dpipeline forum is here:
http://playerfactory.proboards25.com

Hope it helps.

You will find md2 plugin to be perhaps marginally quicker for deforming anims.

Yes, I would recommend at least trying MD2 for vertex animation.

If you are using Character Studio and Physique, you can get a skin converter from Discreet support (Sparks) which will convert Physique to a Skin modifier and keep the underlying biped intact. Then you can use Pipeline to export the anims as B3D. Thats what I use.

Thank you all for your suggestions!

I note Unwrap3d has a new set of Max plugins.