Actors - Vertex Animation

[Stuart Walpole]

• Animated meshes using vertex animation (swaying trees, flags, flowing capes -- could be done with boning/skinning if absolutely necessary.

• If we could support vertex animation though, we would also be more accessable to the moding community that isn't as capable with bones and skin as developers).

[Philip Taylor]

Milestone Pre-Alpha deleted

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[historic_bruno]

Replying to myconid:

Hmm does this really count as being fixed? I know we have swaying trees at least for GLSL capable hardware, but it doesn't quite seem like a generic solution for vertex animation yet, at least it doesn't seem to address the original concerns of the ticket (shaders are much less accessible IMO than bones/rigs/skinning).

[myconid]

Replying to historic_bruno:

Replying to myconid:

Hmm does this really count as being fixed? I know we have swaying trees at least for GLSL capable hardware, but it doesn't quite seem like a generic solution for vertex animation yet, at least it doesn't seem to address the original concerns of the ticket (shaders are much less accessible IMO than bones/rigs/skinning).

My understanding of the ticket was something like "if we can't find a way to do vertex animation, then we can use bones/skinning as an alternative, but it'll be better if we add vertex animation because it's easier to use out of the box".

So basically, I took it that this 6-YO ticket was from before the engine had support for a proper shader system, so vertex animation was still something being considered for the far future.

Now vertex animation is a pretty trivial thing to do in Pyrogenesis, though perhaps you have a different idea about what he meant with "vertex animation".

[historic_bruno]

That's true, I guess for future extensions we could open new tickets for each - "Animated cloth", "Vertex animated flags", etc. Those would then become reusable solutions for modders in the same sense as the windy trees.

[myconid]

Yup, spot on.