I have finally implemented the design for the Animation blending, along with bone masking and animation fading. It has taken a while to get it all straight in my head, I also fixed some small bugs with the current animation loading/playing.
This new design has an "Animation Blend Group" associated with ever Mesh Instance. Animation Instances are added to the Animation Blend Group and each cycle the Blend Group goes through all of its Animation Instances and calculates the Final Pose from this.
To achieve the bone masking there are now some extra optional data that you can supple to the loading of a model. This allows you to apply bone weight to a specific bone in a specific animation.
The animation fading can also be specified on load but in the future I would like to be able to change this so that you can change the fade in and out values per animation instance.
Okay so I've talked about it, now here is the outcome:
This new design has an "Animation Blend Group" associated with ever Mesh Instance. Animation Instances are added to the Animation Blend Group and each cycle the Blend Group goes through all of its Animation Instances and calculates the Final Pose from this.
To achieve the bone masking there are now some extra optional data that you can supple to the loading of a model. This allows you to apply bone weight to a specific bone in a specific animation.
The animation fading can also be specified on load but in the future I would like to be able to change this so that you can change the fade in and out values per animation instance.
Okay so I've talked about it, now here is the outcome:
There are still a few alterations that could be made to the bone weights and the fading in/out values to make the blending more realistic. I think this has been a good starting point as this model is not one that I can alter, forcing me to make the code as flexible as I can to alter the animation data.
The next step really is to create my own models that I can use for the game, although I am still lacking in the 3D modelling department and it may take me a while.
As an added note I will soon be working on Font Rendering to progress the development of the GUI for my engine. This will then give me a chance to create a small executable for testing out different bone weights and fade in/out values.
Progressing well,
Keep coding :)
The next step really is to create my own models that I can use for the game, although I am still lacking in the 3D modelling department and it may take me a while.
As an added note I will soon be working on Font Rendering to progress the development of the GUI for my engine. This will then give me a chance to create a small executable for testing out different bone weights and fade in/out values.
Progressing well,
Keep coding :)
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