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[Anvart]

Originally Posted by skwasjer

Happy holidays everyone

Similarly!
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Sorry... How about Skeletal animation and Skin morphing features for S3D?
Or it will be necessary to write own executed code for this purpose...?

[skwasjer]

Originally Posted by Anvart

How about Skeletal animation and Skin morphing features for S3D?
Or it will be necessary to write own executed code for this purpose...?

I have stopped working on S3D about 5 months ago as you know (and boy do I enjoy the free time ). While I do have a portion of code ready for skeletal animations I can't release anything that works because I only know roughly 60-70% of how this data is stored in the files. It's actually the only real missing thing of the DAT-file specification to me. I could find it out over time, but I really don't care to...

Even if I have the specification 100%, it is just way to much work to finish in reasonable time because I also need to introduce a new 3D-file format that supports skeletal animations.

So yes, you will need to write your own code/tools for it.

That said, if you ever have code (and the full file specification written down) or an application ready, then perhaps I can include it with S3D's installer so you have a complete toolkit.

[Anvart]

OK.
Don't see prob's...
Theme is closed...

[skwasjer]

A hexeditor, patience and alot of time. None of these 3 I have right now

I don't remember well where I left of, it's been over 9-10 months since I looked at this. I remember I had found out how the bone structure was stored, but missed info on matrices and the weights of each joint (or perhaps the latter I did find out, don't remember). The big thing is putting it all together how the timeline is built with all the animations/poses, the transformations of each bone, etc. I have all kinds of parts but not the big picture due to missing info/understanding of some key areas of these chunks, stuff like relationships etc. I have spent hours upon hours finding links/relationships between the chunks (id's and stuff) but constantly ran into a wall... I would find out eventually but have no further interest.

If you find out, then perfect, but I really don't see me spend a whole big deal of time on it, especially since SH5 has a new animation engine (based on freely available tools I'm told by Dan).