I did this **in povray** for this anim:
(6 MB download:  http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/anims/2004-04-15/ought.mpg )

I used Mike William's file for extruding a mesh along a spline.  I had
another walk cycle which generated the points of the skeleton, then simply
put a natural spline along them. Mike Williams then generates the mesh 2.
See also smaller anims at:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/thread/%3C4088703a%40news.povray.org%3E/
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/thread/%3C4036deea%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=197897&toff=50

So I think it is tres cool to keep it all in povray.

The Next Big Thing in this arena would of course to go beyond the "walking
worm" to the "walking pair of pants."  That is, have some code which
provides for a smooth leg-hip-otherleg.



"Rune" <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure I have the required skills, but I'd like to write a program
in
> Java that can import a boned mesh in some format, move the bones around,
> deform the mesh according to the moved bones and then export the mesh as a
> mesh2 for example.
>
> Are there any widely used formats for boned meshes?
>
> It should contain the mesh (typically a character in some standard pose),
> the bones in the same standard pose, and data about which vertices are
> affected by which bones.
>
> However, in order to deform the mesh correctly, I'd probably also have to
> know the algorithm used for the deforming. Even with that available I
might
> not have the skills, but I can always hope.
>
> I think I have to base it all on a pre-existing format for boned meshes,
> because how else would people be able to actually create those boned
meshes?
> I certainly don't have the skills to create a graphical mesh and boning
> modeler/editor.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Rune
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