Multiple Anim in b3d file?

Is there a way to put multiple animation sections in a b3d file? And how do you reference them in Blitz3D?
My exporter is just putt5ing one long anim section in now.

David

That's how it's done though..

All animations are placed in 1 sequence. You then load it and extract each animation manually with ExtractAnimSeq.

Something like that.

Check animation commands:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/b3ddocs/command_list_3d_cat.php?show=Entity%20Animation

If you really want you can do this also:

I'm a little confused here.

Does this mean I need to generate a full file for each model for each animation sequence?
Each file will contain the textures, mesh and bones with one animation sequence?

Then I can load one, and then append the others to add the additional animation sequences?

Is there a way to write a b3d file that is only an additional animation?

David

Yes, if you want to have separate animations (using the same mesh, bones etc).



No.

Don't get confused, read the flowery manual! :) Blitz3D has several ways of doing animation stuff, I'd use the "all animations in one file" and Exctract commands, but I just wanted to show that it's allright to have several separate animations too and compile them together with LoadAnimSeq. It's fully up to you to decide which method is the best choice for your animation pipeline.

Thanks!
I misunderstood the extract command.
So I just have to supply a list of animation descriptions and frame start and stop so they can be extracted.

David

Precisely.

Yes - you just need to write the node hierarchy and the animation frames - you dont need the mesh or even the bones. The LoadAnimMesh() command only requires "NODE" chunks containing "KEYS" chunks - nothing else.

Cool - I stand corrected!