How can I get AnimatedSkeleton from Extended Game.Item

tipforeveryone · 06-21-2020 12:56 PM

I have an ak47 object which has animated bones (gun's bolt movement)
and here is my custom class which is extended from Game.Item

Code:

class Gun : Game.Item

{

    AnimatedSkeleton animSkel;

    virtual void create(Object &obj){

        super.create(obj);

        //as tutorial, this is how to get animated skeleton from a mesh's skeleton

        animSkel.create(mesh->skeleton(),1.0);

        //but this does not work because below line return an error

        if (!mesh->skeleton()) Exit("this mesh has no skeleton");

        //that means my ak47 model does not have skeleton right ?

        //How can I get skeleton of this object?

    }

    virtual bool update(){

        //skel will play my desired animation here

    }

}

tipforeveryone · 06-22-2020 09:46 AM

anyone ? please

RedcrowProd · 06-22-2020 05:30 PM

Does your gun has skeleton ? You can add skeleton easely thru the game obj editor. I believe you need at least one bone on your obj to be considered skeleton

tipforeveryone · 06-23-2020 11:12 AM

yes it does have animated skeleton, I imported from blender. It works well on preview (while mouse hovering)

This is the gun model with bones

and animation is fine with these settings

For testing, I copy code from Animation tutorial and replace my gun object and its animation

But when I try to implement to my code, it does not work as expected. I will upload my video soon, maybe I did not understand the proper way to use animation for object like Game.Item

tipforeveryone · 06-23-2020 03:58 PM

This how I implement my model
1. Import model into engine from exported fbx (by blender)
2. Create an object class and name it "GUN_CLASS" with some parameters
3. Select GUN_CLASS as class of my model
4. MyGunClass code:

Code:

class MyGunClass : Game.Item

{

    AnimatedSkeleton skel;

    virtual void create(Object &obj){

        super.create(obj);

        skel.create(T.mesh->skeleton(), 1.0);

    }

    virtual bool update(){

        animSkel.updateBegin();

        animSkel.clear();

        animSkel.animate(/*Drag and drop imported animation here*/, Time.time());

        animSkel.updateMatrix();

        animSkel.updateEnd();

        return super.update();

    }

}

5. MyCharacterClass code

Code:

class MyCharacterClass : Game.Chr

{

    ObjectPtr gun_object;

    MyGunClass *my_gun;

    virtual void create(Object &obj){

        super.create(obj);

        gun_object = /*Drag and drop imported model here*/;

        Game.World.objCreate(

            *gun_object,  

            Matrix(wpnModel->scale3(), Vec(0, 1, 1))

        );

        my_gun = &gunList[gunList.elms()-1];

        //Note: gunList was declared in Main 

        //Game.ObjMap<MyGunClass> gunList;

    }

    virtual bool update(){

        /*some overriden code here following character tutorial*/

        super.update()

    }

}

6. For debugging, I added this code to display gun's bones to check if it is running animation

Code:

void Draw()

{

   Renderer(Render);

   Renderer.setDepthForDebugDrawing();

   player.currentWeapon.animSkel.draw(RED);

}

and this is what I got, animation is running somehow but, not for the gun, check out this video

https://youtu.be/LPrOfsU-rPY

RedcrowProd · 06-23-2020 05:01 PM

Well once you declare it to be skel, the update you are doing is for animskel. Can you try using skel instead ?

Hard to see right now im at work on my phone

tipforeveryone · 06-24-2020 01:20 AM

Ah just my typo error, my real code is "animSkel", I rewrite it to "skel" on this post for better reading, therefore the problem is still there, whenever u can check it out, please help, I stuck with this 3 days..

RedcrowProd · 06-24-2020 01:51 AM

Hi,

It doesnt seems to be working for me either to just call the animation in the animate()

there might be something there that i am missing, nonetheless it says in the func comment to avoid using this one.

if i were you, i would be looking into using either set SkelAnim ( which works well, and that's the way i do it, for longer animation loop, like movement ) or Motion ( for one time trigger animation, like shooting or attacking ).

the tutorial shows how to use motion, if you need help setting up SkelAnim let me know

tipforeveryone · 06-24-2020 07:28 AM

Yes. help me. Give me a look on your code smile

I am so new to this engine

RedcrowProd · 06-25-2020 01:15 AM

pretty simple just have a SkelAnim *SA_YourName=null;

then in your create

SA_YourName= obj.skel.getSkelAnim(UID(youranimUID));

then your update
obj.skel.updateBegin(); // begin update
obj.skel.clear();

obj.skel.animate(SA_YourName, AnimationFlt, 1.0f , true);
obj.skel.animate(SA_YourName2, AnimationFlt, flt_YouranimWeight, true);
obj.skel.animate(SA_YourName3, AnimationFlt, flt_YouranimWeight2, true);
obj.skel.animate(SA_YourName4, AnimationFlt, flt_YouranimWeight3, true);

obj.skel.updateMatrix(obj.matrix()); // update skeleton animation matrixes
obj.skel.updateEnd(); // end update

Note : on this code i use Game.Animatable obj;

but you can do the same with AnimatedSkeleton skel ; // animated skeleton and setting it up correctly with your own matrix ( i just dont see the point, because animatable is what i want smile

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tipforeveryone · 06-26-2020 01:03 AM

Arrggg This drives me crazy, I still can not make my gun animate, even using SkelAnim
Here is my project download link, feel free to adjust, let see you can make it happen :(

https://mega.nz/file/SZsRyQiC#zpz8r8ZgWK...rxAcBfTDus

First press Build and see what happens, Start with CharacterClass, this is before I using SkelAnim
Thank you so much for your support

**Esenthel** · 06-26-2020 04:59 AM

Code:

virtual bool update()

   {

      {

         animSkel.updateBegin(); // begin update

         animSkel.clear(); // clear skeleton animation

         animSkel.animate(UID(1785919657, 1244929154, 2797312937, 3002806710), Time.time());

         animSkel.updateMatrix(actor.matrix()); // update skeleton animation matrixes

         animSkel.updateEnd(); // end update

      }

      return super.update();

   }

   virtual UInt drawPrepare()

   {

      base->mesh()->draw(animSkel);

      return 0; //super.drawPrepare();

   }

tipforeveryone · 06-26-2020 05:48 PM

Wow, it works and I understand more about Esentel.!
Thanks admin and RedcrowProd

One more question, I think it is ok to continue this topic like this
How can I play animation 1 time,

example:
if(Ms.bp(0)) skel.animate(animation, 1 time); //mouse click make skel play animation 1 time

RedcrowProd · 06-26-2020 09:16 PM

use motion, those are especially made for one time animation

tipforeveryone · 06-27-2020 03:29 AM

Can you give me code example, I tried by myself but it does not work, what is the proper way using motion ?
there is no motion tutorial in official tutorial, isn't it?
And how can I use Ms.bp(0) to activate motion?

How can I get AnimatedSkeleton from Extended Game.Item
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