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From: posfan12
Subject: Import poses/skeletal animations?
Date: 27 Mar 2011 05:20:00
Message: <web.4d8f006b7e636494eacef2200@news.povray.org>
Is it possible to import poses and skeletal animations from other applications?
Are these usually stored in text format?


-Mike


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: Import poses/skeletal animations?
Date: 27 Mar 2011 13:50:22
Message: <4d8f78de$1@news.povray.org>

> Is it possible to import poses and skeletal animations from other applications?
> Are these usually stored in text format?
>
>
> -Mike
>
>

Most of the time, not directly. Most of the time, those poses and 
animation data need to first be converted. The exact format depends 
entirely on the application used to generate those datas. It can be 
stored as simple text, XML, binary, or some hybrid representation. It 
may also be compressed.

You may trry to use Poseray to convert those into *.inc files.

If you do know the format used, then, it may be possible to read the 
poses using the I/O functions. Using version 3.7, you cn read binary 
data, but the chore of extracting usable data is entirely yours.




Alain


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