VertexX etc Commands

Recently I¡Çve been using the vertexx etc commands, but it seems that it doesn¡Çt give the correct results on animated meshes. It always seems to return the positions of the vertices on the initial frame rather than where the vertices actually are now. Am I doing something wrong or is that just how things are?

It's just how things are. You can of course find the current position of bones.

This makes normal mapping redundant on animated meshes.

Roll on Max3D!

I have a solution for this.

When obtaining the vertex coordinates, use this:

TFormPoint vertexx,vertexy,vertezz,animatedmesh,0

and the TFormedX/Y/Z Will give you the correct position.

:D :D :D

Ah, sorry, you are actually talking about animated, not loadadnimmesh, Sorry then, perhaps this won't work neither...

Just tried it, doesn't seem to work

Tested and Confirmed, it doesn't work..

I used to spend about 2 weeks trying to find VertexX() about 8 months ago and i figured theres no way you can do it. The best solution was to export mesh in all its states, read each vert into special files and then when the app starts load all the verts positions into memory for all the frames, from those files, then using only a pivot to tell the orientation of the mesh...

But yeah, i gave up and am waiting for BlitzMax like Tom said.

If you want a specific vertexX/y/z, parent a pivot to the bone, at the location of the vertex, then animate the mesh.