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Thanks for posting this. much appreciated.
Paul
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: Lucas Meijer [mailto:lucas@(protected)]
> Sent: 09 February 2004 17:19
> To: dir3d-l@(protected)
> Subject: [Dir3d-l] max3 bones, animating rootbone problems, a
> solution.
>
>
> FYI,
>
> I've been busy adapting the 3dmax w3d exporter for a client of mine.
> One of their biggest problems with it was that if you export a motion
> for a character, and the rootbone is translated in frame #1, that
> translation isn't applied to the rootbone in diretor, instead the
> inverse is applied to the rest of the skeleton.
>
> Most people tend to fix this by letting frame #1 containin a
> pose with
> the nontranslated rootbone, and then not display that frame
> in director.
>
> It turns out that the exporter doesn't look at the
> translation in frame
> #1, but it looks at the position of the pivot point of the group
> containing the physique'd model. This pivot point tends to be in a
> different position, depending on the pose the character has
> in frame 1.
>
> If you make sure that for each animation you make in max, you set the
> pivot point of the group to the same world coordinates as the other
> animations, you can animate the rootbone as much as you like, and
> properly switch between animations, without for instance the
> notorious
> sliding feet problem.
>
> Hope that helps someone,
>
> Lucas
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