Export animation problem from 3DsMax

Scripting Issues
1

Hello expert.
I wanna create some 3rd person game.
And I have many animations to use.

At first when I export animation from 3DsMax I export all animations as “both” type
(export both model and animation in one file).
everything is OK.
But when I have many animations (30 anims) , it load to slow (even all of them is .bam file)
So I think I will try export model and animation separately.
(1 model and another is animation)

	self.boy= Actor("boy.bam",
{'stand' :"stand.bam",'walk' :"walk.bam",'run' :"run.bam",'attack' :"attack.bam"})

But when I load it. The animation is strange , some part of model such as left arm , leg or head is contort. some part is ordinary.

Any idea? Thanks.

Ola.

2

It sounds like your skeleton hierarchy does not exactly match between your different animation files. Is that possible?

David

3

Hello David.
Thanks for reply.

I tried only 1 animation and 1 model file. And it has a very simple skeleton. But not work.

self.boy= Actor("boy.egg",{'walk':"boy_walk.egg"})
self.boy.loop(walk)
self.boy.reparentTo(render)

Some part of model did not move.
(boy_walk.egg export as animation type)

But if I export boy_walk.egg as both type it work normally.
every meshes move correctly.

What am I missing?
I stuck this for a week ,please help.
Thank you.

Ola

4

Did you perhaps get any warning messages at the command line?

5

Thank for your reply pro-rsoft.
The output console appear as below.

DirectStart: Starting the game.
Warning: DirectNotify: category 'Interval' already exists
Known pipe types:
  wglGraphicsPipe
(all display modules loaded.)
:util(warning): Adjusting global clock's real time by 8.96569e-006 seconds.
:util(warning): Adjusting global clock's real time by -0.333896 seconds.
Press any key to continue . . .

Ps. my Panda3D not up to date yet,
and this is my 3dsmax file (7.0) click the big blue button to download.
http://www.4shared.com/file/128599419/f54f6038/teapot_test.html
Thank you.

Ola

6

Solve !!

When I export boy.egg just check Export Entire Scence button instead of Export Mesh (on Export Setting Dialog).

Regards,
Ola