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I was wondering whether anyone here has any game programming
experience using data from 3dsmax with respect to Character Studio.

In short I'm looking for a way of storing heirarchied animation in the
smallest possible space.

As far as I can tell it is impossible to extract meaningful keyframe
data from max when an animation uses Biped as it's using customised IK
controllers.

The solution i've come up with involves storing quaternion and
translate parameters for each node of the character for every frame of
the animation. This is currently falling woefully short of my target
as far as memory constraints are concerned, even when quantized and
bitpacked.

Has anyone here had to tackle this problem before while programming a
3d fighting game for a console ( for example ;) )

Cheers for reading and big thanks in advance if you reply.

Ta,

RB.

can interpolate the data of the different parts yourself. You only then
store
some control data which are needed to reproduce the right animation curve.

Kind regards,
Stefan Maton
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You could also export the animation from MAX to .3DS format. Atleast
the .3DS format is documented enough to write parser code.

-Todd

Quote:>Hi,

>I was wondering whether anyone here has any game programming
>experience using data from 3dsmax with respect to Character Studio.

>In short I'm looking for a way of storing heirarchied animation in the
>smallest possible space.

>As far as I can tell it is impossible to extract meaningful keyframe
>data from max when an animation uses Biped as it's using customised IK
>controllers.

>The solution i've come up with involves storing quaternion and
>translate parameters for each node of the character for every frame of
>the animation. This is currently falling woefully short of my target
>as far as memory constraints are concerned, even when quantized and
>bitpacked.

>Has anyone here had to tackle this problem before while programming a
>3d fighting game for a console ( for example ;) )

>Cheers for reading and big thanks in advance if you reply.

>Ta,

>RB.