I would like to make a component that takes an animation asset as an input and plays it on the animated model from the same node. It’s a pain in the bottom to start all animations from the code. I would prefer to set animations on environment animated object in the editor.
Any cons?
Basicly you end up with s.t. like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<scene id="1">
<attribute name="Name" value="" />
<attribute name="Time Scale" value="1" />
<attribute name="Smoothing Constant" value="50" />
<attribute name="Snap Threshold" value="5" />
<attribute name="Elapsed Time" value="6.67375" />
<attribute name="Next Replicated Node ID" value="15" />
<attribute name="Next Replicated Component ID" value="14" />
<attribute name="Next Local Node ID" value="16777223" />
<attribute name="Next Local Component ID" value="16777228" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<attribute name="Variable Names" value="" />
<component type="PhysicsWorld" id="1" />
<component type="Octree" id="2" />
<component type="DebugRenderer" id="3" />
<node id="2">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Zone" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<component type="Zone" id="4">
<attribute name="Bounding Box Min" value="-1000 -1000 -1000" />
<attribute name="Bounding Box Max" value="1000 1000 1000" />
<attribute name="Ambient Color" value="0.25 0.25 0.25 1" />
</component>
</node>
<node id="11">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Camera" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="7.49446 -6.90148 -4.7805" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="0.782767 -0.482461 -0.211214 0.331504" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<component type="Camera" id="20">
<attribute name="Aspect Ratio" value="1.33333" />
</component>
</node>
<node id="3">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Spot" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="7.48113 -6.50764 -5.34367" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="0.844623 -0.46194 -0.191342 0.191342" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="12">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="LightAdjust" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="0.707107 0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<component type="Light" id="10">
<attribute name="Light Shape Texture" value="TextureCube;" />
</component>
</node>
</node>
<node id="4">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Point" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 6 -0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<component type="Light" id="11">
<attribute name="Light Shape Texture" value="TextureCube;" />
</component>
</node>
<node id="5">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Sun" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 -6" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="13">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="LightAdjust" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="-4.37114e-08 0 -1 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<component type="Light" id="12">
<attribute name="Light Type" value="Directional" />
</component>
</node>
</node>
<node id="14">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Model" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<component type="AnimatedModel" id="13">
<attribute name="Model" value="Model;Models/Model.mdl" />
<attribute name="Material" value="Material;Materials/Material.xml" />
<attribute name="Bone Animation Enabled">
<variant type="Bool" value="true" />
<variant type="Bool" value="true" />
<variant type="Bool" value="true" />
<variant type="Bool" value="true" />
<variant type="Bool" value="true" />
<variant type="Bool" value="true" />
</attribute>
<attribute name="Animation States">
<variant type="Int" value="1" />
<variant type="ResourceRef" value="Animation;Models/Armature.ani" />
<variant type="String" value="Bone" />
<variant type="Bool" value="true" />
<variant type="Float" value="1" />
<variant type="Float" value="0.6336" />
<variant type="Int" value="0" />
</attribute>
</component>
<node id="16777222">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Bone" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 -0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 2.18557e-08 -0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="16777221">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Bone.004" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0.5 -0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="0.981606 -0 -2.59522e-08 -0.190919" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="16777220">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Bone.002" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="2.498e-16 0.5 -4.44089e-16" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 -2.63201e-17 -1.56121e-17 -7.84399e-25" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="16777219">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Bone.006" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="-1.31349e-08 0.5 -9.40819e-16" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 -2.63201e-17 -1.56121e-17 -7.84399e-25" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="16777218">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Bone.003" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="2.62697e-08 0.5 -2.16781e-15" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="0.925886 1.74873e-15 -5.13559e-08 -0.377803" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="16777217">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Bone.007" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="-9.29396e-08 0.5 1.83952e-14" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 -5.264e-17 1.0528e-16 1.4018e-08" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
</node>
</node>
</node>
</node>
</node>
</node>
</node>
</scene>
that you can finally prune to:
<node id="14">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Animation" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<node id="15">
<attribute name="Is Enabled" value="true" />
<attribute name="Name" value="Model" />
<attribute name="Tags" />
<attribute name="Position" value="0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Rotation" value="1 0 0 0" />
<attribute name="Scale" value="1 1 1" />
<attribute name="Variables" />
<component type="AnimatedModel" id="16">
<attribute name="Model" value="Model;Models/Model.mdl" />
<attribute name="Material" value="Material;Materials/Material.xml" />
<attribute name="Animation States">
<variant type="Int" value="0" />
</attribute>
</component>
</node>
</node>
and this more or less accounts for a default ‘empty’ animation scene you can tweak to what you want.
If I’m not mistaken. Did that some time ago…
It would be nice to set it up from the editor…
That’s what I tried in the beginning. You can dump the scene from the editor in the same way as I described. But I had to let go as I’m on Os X and editor doesn’t work… and I had to resort to examples.
Not sure about it, but I think you can load character demo AS example specifically in the editor and do the same…