Animation Blending via Engine

#1 The shape rendering and animation system (TS) allows you to run multiple animation sequences on a single shape. These sequences usually don't animation the same parts of the body, but if you do want a sequence to animate on top of another, then it has to be marked as a "blend" sequence. I believe you mark it in Max. Blended sequences get blended in to whatever other sequence is currently running, and you can run more than one blend sequence at a time. Only bone animation transforms can be blended this way, morphing, scaling, texture and visibility animations are not affected.

#2 I want to blen the run sequence with some attack sequences, and also I want some facial animations while running/slashing etc.

This should be possible using the bones system right? Do you have details on how I can blend the animations? Via script etc? i notice that the player.cs has some animations listed in there, does that have anything to do with it?

Brian

#3 brian he said you need to mark something in max. Some option soemwhere probably or something in teh exporter perhaps. But that would make sense. I doubt it is handled exclusively from the scripts.

Though I do have some questions on how the script stuff in handled. What are the arguements that you pass to the player setanim function?

#4 I have my run cycle animation, and it looks great. I am pleased with it. It runs great in DTS show, now I am tryint to blend an attack animation with it.

I make a new sequence, mark it as "blend" and I set it to only do transform (disabled morph etc) and it does not seem to behave in the way I intended. I though that the only bones that would be affected in my animations are the ones I moved. So if I move just the arms, only the arms will swing the weapon etc. The legs also seem to be affected.

Any ideas?

Thanks

#5 It should only export animations for the bones you move. I'm don't enough about the exporter to help here, maybe the animations need the "colapse transforms" settings to be on? (Which I know you don't want on under other circumstances.)