loading and animating a mesh?

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elseano

(Posted 2003) [#1]

Noobish yet very necesary question ;]
Once I have loaded a mesh with the LoadAnimMesh function, how do I animate it?
ie. If it was a walk cycle, make it go through the frames and then loop back to the beginning again?
And what does SetAnimKey do, exactly...?
Can anyone help me?

Neochrome

(Posted 2003) [#2]

i dont understand these animated meshes much, but as i understand it, you use Animate mesh, 1
Animate [mesh your using], [looped]

elseano

(Posted 2003) [#3]

Still not working...
Do I put this in the main loop or what?

jhocking

(Posted 2003) [#4]

In addition to using the Animate command, make sure to call UpdateWorld every frame. The animation is only incremented on UpdateWorld.

Neochrome

(Posted 2003) [#5]

does your Animated Mesh have any actual movement? IE KeyFrames?

Doggie

(Posted 2003) [#6]

But the animate command does not have to be in the loop.

For example


obj1=LoadAnimMesh("D:\4x\crap1.x")
PositionEntity obj1,67,17,10
ScaleEntity obj1,5,5,5
EntityType obj1,2
EntityRadius obj1,2
EntityAlpha obj1,1.0
EntityBlend obj1,1
Animate obj1,1,.4
While Not Keyhit(1)
UpdateWorld
RenderWorld
Wend