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Re: More animation problems

To: REALbasic Games <realbasic-games at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: More animation problems
From: Frank Condello <developer at chaoticbox dot com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:20:27 -0400
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On 12-Aug-05, at 12:23 AM, Lo Saeteurn wrote:

Animations play perfectly and share much of the data. The problem now is with the lighting. If the animated object is rotated, the lighting does not change on the object. I suspect the normals have something to do with it. If so, how do I extract the normal list from a trimesh object and interpolate between the two frames?

Normals are stored in the vertex attributes of the trimesh data (same place you find the texture uvs).

So it is the normals that are causing this lighting issue? If so, it shouldn't be too difficult to find.

Most likely...

I can't recall the exact details involved with getting at them but it might help to check out the Trimesh3D.GetVertexNormals method in the Quesa Wrappers.

Now I'm guessing there's no way to share just the VertextNormals. It looks like it is mixed between the UV and the other vertex information. If this is the case, there may be performance issues going though them all?

It's a little messy but you can share the normals without touching the other data. Check out the Trimesh3D.GetAttributeDataPtr method in the the Quesa Wrappers - it shows how to dig through the vertex attribute data to find a pointer to a particular lump. Once you have that pointer you can copy your data into that memory or assign a local memoryblock. Things get tricky when a model is missing normals, but you probably won't have to worry about that.

Frank.
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