Skeletal Animation System
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Overview
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GoalsThe goals of this project is to create a plugin for 3DSMAX that exports animations and models to a custom format: '.C23'. The project also includes a skeletal animation system that loads the file exported from 3DSMAX and blends and plays the animation.
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Features
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Full / Partial Body Animation Types
There are two type of animations specified in this system: 'Full Body Animation' and 'Partial Body Animation'. In each update cycle, the full body animation will be applied first to decide the basic position, then the partial body animation will be applied, based on the weights of each bone, the model will do a linear interpolation between the basic transformation and the one specify in partial body animation.
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Blending Between Multiple Animations
The skeletal animation system supports multiple animations play at same model at the same time. The skeletal animation system will perform a liner interpolation based the weight, blending time, and type of animation of each animation.
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Bone Filter for Animation
The skeletal animation system supports an bone filter for each animation that allows developer to add in code. The bone filter will filtering out the bones the developer don't want based on the bone name and depth.
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Plugin for 3DSMAX
To make this project supports as much file format as possible, it uses 3DSMAX as bridge to convert various file types to '.C23' file type. The plugin supports both biped and CAT bone structure, support up to 8 bones attach to same vertex.
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Code Snaps [Github Link]
Demo Video
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