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One solution for exporting boned animation to directx/game engines About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. One solution for exporting boned animation to directx/game engines // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by frootee // Jun 14, 2006, 6:46am frootee Total Posts: 2667 Hi folks. I have seen a couple threads here about exporting boned animation to directx format and game engines. This is similar to Mr. Frank Ladner's solution to exporting vertex animation from motion studio characters, for import into truespace 7. But, I believe I found out how to get the vertex keyframes recorded without having to single step through each frame and pressing the record button. I have a short example below. I hope this helps everyone out! :-D Here's how to do it. As an intro, I have included a snippet from previous Post I found on the old forums regarding this topic: ////////////////////////// You can successfully use vertex animation with Motion Studio bones, as long as you don't try to mix skinning and vertex animation. In other words, if you attach an entire object (or group) to a Motion Studio bone, you can also vertex animate that object. However, if you want to use Motion Studio's vertex-level skinning option, that will override any vertex animation. You can see an example in our Gallery. The facial expressions in the "Yeah!" animation were done with MultiMorph, while the rest of the body was animated with Motion Studio. Gallery is accessible from the Motion Studio homepage here: http://www.turbophp.com/MotionStudio/ Scott //////////////////////////////////////// What I found out tonight: directx howto open keyframe editor right click on autorecord make sure auto record is on make sure vertex, scale, rotate, and translate are selected create 2 cylinders add 2 bones attach bones to cylinders do not enable skinning switch to animate mode in motionstudio press record key in motionstudio set keyframe to 20 move the desired bone press record key in motionstudio rewind in motionstudio press Play in motionstudio keyframes for the object are recorded when done, go to keyframe editor select each cylinder in turn and move it up, above the bones/skeleton hierarchy. This will move the vertex keyframes out of the bones system remove the bones/skeleton system by deleting it in the keyframe editor save the scene file save the directx file load directx file into your favorite game engine or microsoft directx mesh viewer Enjoy Jason

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