Space Warp Animations - Cerating Key Frames?

#1 These can be exported, but you would not want to export it this way, as a morph, the file would be huge.. I have nver done it, but you should be able to bind dummies to the space warp, and then use these dummies as bones to deform the mesh.

#2 I would do what joe said, since morph animations tend to become _huge_

I made a character based completely off of morph animations and the file size hit about 900 kilobytes. And that was with only 4 animations, jump, land, bounce, and melt. (totaling at 100 frames) All on a shape about 200 polies large. Hope this gives some referance numbers for someone out there.

EDIT: The shape also had 3 lod's, the two non full levels were unanimated because it became a bit boring waiting for it to export every frame for every lod (took about 10 minutes for the full LOD in case you were wondering)

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#3 Additionally, morph animations are snapshots of the frames.. it is basically like replacement animation, with a different mesh for each frame of the animation. It works, but it is not recommended unless there is no other way to get the effect.

I did a lot of tests back in the day with things like this exporting to dts.. I even wrote a maxscript for attaching bones to particle positions and animating them for export (for canned explosions.. tornados, etc..)

find a way to have the animations drive bones (dummies) and set it up so it is a valid DTS scene, and it will work just fine.

#4 Thanks guys...I will give it a try tommorrow :)