Interesting....

[bigbadbogie]

I thought some of you modellers might be intrigued by this:

http://files.filefront.com/vtex1zip/;11473003;/fileinfo.html

[shane ward]

Ummm, A strange box, What program are using to animate?

[bigbadbogie]

Just notepad. A working vertex animation.

[Nielk1]

Analysis:

frm-main is the mesh
frm-anim is the dummy animator

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SI_EnvelopeList {
   1;
   SI_Envelope {
      "frm-main";
      "frm-anim";
      4;
      0;25.0;,
      1;25.0;,
      2;25.0;,
      3;25.0;,
   }
}

Seems to match frm-anim with vertexes 0,1,2, and 3 on from-main. It does so with a weight of 25, which is likely why the vertexes are only moving 1/4th as far as the dummy.

And now I can do it...

I can animate my skin/bone items in max, and attach them using max to find the vertex numbers and this little bit of code to attach them.

[bigbadbogie]

What... no thankyou note??   

I just worked out something that has plagued all of us for years.

And incidentally, the vert numbers are 1,2,3,4 - you have to subtract 1 for each.

It wont be easy to animate complex objects because it all needs to be done manually.

[Nielk1]

I already know the offset of the vertex numbers from fixing flames.

THX BBB

[bigbadbogie]

Thats better.   

[mrtwosheds]

Well done.
I tried to work that out, but I have no way of figuring out the vertex numbers in my "primitive" modeling program.

I suppose in the xsi they are just 1 to whatever top to bottom...

[bigbadbogie]

No, they can be all over the place unfortunately. You will definitely need a program that tells you the vert numbers.

[Nielk1]

Success!

I animated the 2 pincherish looking things on my scion hover scav.

[bigbadbogie]

And just like that... I start a revolution!!

[mrtwosheds]

Vertex are not numbered in the xsi, so there must be some logic to it. BZ2 only gets to see the xsi.

I just found the geometry inspector in 3dex, this might be indicating the vertex numbers...

Then again, maybe not.

[Warfreak]

The Vertex Numbering Trick is something that only works on 3D Modelers that keep track of which vertex is which. (Ex: 3DS Max)

From that number given by the program (Max tells you it when you select a singel vertex, like Vertex 25 Selected) You Subtract 1...... there is your .xsi vertex number.





Also: 3 CHEERS FOR BIG BAD BOOGIE!!!!!................ AND PIE!!!! 

[mrtwosheds]

From the look of bbb's animated box it is in line order, the bottom 4 corners are the first four lines.

[bigbadbogie]

That is because it is an extremely simple model.