Actually about keyframing, I was interested enough to try to post a response
but the web interface doesn't always let me log on....  So about that, I
can't remember what all I was going to say before, but for the project I'm
working on, I'm planning on dumping everything into a big array of floats
(not vectors) for each keyframe, not all of which need be defined.   For
any undefined element, the keyframe will have no affect, similar to how
you're able to skip x y or z values out of your vectors for select
keyframes.   Another array will probably store something to represent
interpolation type for each value at each keyframe... The idea is to only
have to declare things that are unique or changing.

Nice modeling on your robot :) ...can't wait to see your Chasm short.


Charles C

"Tim Nikias" <JUSTTHELOWERCASE:timISNOTnikias(at)gmx.netWARE> wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> Though life sucks, I've been a little busy for my short. The Keyframing
> System I've demonstrated here last week and no one showed interest in (no
> hurt feelings, don't worry) can be considered done as far as the grouping
> goes. I'm not sure if I won't add some more interpolation methods, but I do
> think anything that can't be done with the system is something the system
> just isn't intended to be for. ;-)
>
> To test the robot's rig along with the system, I cooked this small clip.
> It's nothing fancy, and the robot doesn't even admit that he's supposed to
> have some character, after all, it's just a proof-of-concept that I can
> animate using pure POV-SDL...
>
> Note that it's encoded with Divx6, so you'll probably need the latest
> install (but those that use things usually update their things, so I don't
> think I actually needed to make this latest-install-comment...).
>
> http://www.nolights.de/chasm/animations/kf_test1.avi
>
> Comments, critique, links to workshops on keyframe-animation, (anything
> constructive or nice) is appreciated. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> --
> aka "Tim Nikias"
> Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>

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