Extended Skeletal Animation Support

[Raven]

I've wrote extended skeletal animation support. Features:

* returns bone details (position, orientation, etc)
* returns whenever bone exists or not
* returns number of bones
* returns bone name by index
* implements AttachToBone function



download: RSkeletalMeshEx.zip
ReadMe @ wiki: http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/UE1:RSkeletalMeshEx

Changelog
v 0.0.3
* RSkeletalMeshEx has three new static functions (GetBoneIndex, GetBoneLocationByIndex, GetBoneRotationByIndex)
v 0.0.2
* added RSkeletalActor actor which implements AttachToBone function
v 0.0.1 (first public release)
* added function GetBoneRotation and GetBoneLocation

[kea]

Great!
So this can be used to attach additional meshes to main mesh, like boots to legs and helmets to heads, doesn't it?
Also, will it be used in TCO?

[Raven]

Nope I've wrote it yesterday and probably it will not be used in TCO.

Edit:

It seems that ReferenceSkeleton in SkeletalMesh can not be used to return current bone position. Now I'm trying to write function to calculate bone position.

[moonangel]

hm, somehow reminds of the same attempt i done for LSoNP once, dunno how far i got with that, but im sure i didn't got to match up the correct position of the actual joint.

[diamond]

Any usage examples of this?

[Raven]

Dunno how example could look like. It's just bunch of functions used to attach something to static skeleton. I'm working on version for animated skeleton.

[diamond]

I was thinking about some examples that you have to make to test your classes.

Though, I was thinking it works well with animated skeletons. Haven't thought there is a difference between static and animated ones.

However I'm only learning how to create animated skeleton so I have time to wait.

[Raven]

The difference are in getting info about position of bone in animation. In non-animated skeletal meshes I'm using reference skeleton, however animation is a little bit more complicated. I have few ideas, and now I'm trying to made them work

[diamond]

any progress on this?

[Raven]

Nope, but I'm going to work on in quite soon.

[SocketHumor]

Insane necrobump...

raven ,is there a chance you can make it work for animated meshes? and use bonerotation and scaling like in unreal 227??

[Raven]

Unfortunately no - I don't have enough time to work on this. You can use 227 it's Unreal after all, and it contains lots of awesome features (personally if I'd start making new mod - I'd make it for 227).