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[mordrek]

Hi.
I am at a point where I'd like to get a specific feature into my code:
 Meshes mounted on animated bones

I'm a total noob at both Xith and modelling/animation.
I'm working with some models in .obj loaded into Blender, rigged, animated and then exported.

I managed to get animation working with .md5 (.dae didn't load anything when exporting scene, and no animations where found when exporting selection).

Now... is it possible to get hold of the bones transform somehow so I can update the transform of another mesh?

/Andreas

[mordrek]

Looked some more and it does feel like I have to fiddle a bit too much in xith or jagatoo to get it done.

I just realized I can ignore the whole issue, by rigging the "gun" I want to attach with the same skeleton and same animations as my main model and then diplay both at the same location with the same animation running.

Would be nice to get bones anyway though to do things like having particle emitters attached to the model etc. hmm,...

[Marvin Fröhlich]

For this to work you need to attach the gun to the main model. To make the gun always be placed at the same relative location to the model's hand, you need a set of mount transforms. Please have a look at the MD2/MD3 testcases for examples.

Marvin

[mordrek]

Thanx for the reply.
Got it working after some fiddling