Hi all,

Here is a little test displaying md5mesh’s joints/bones. Perhaps it could be usefull to implements this functionality in the engine.

http://www.visualiser.fr/fp11/Md5Skeleton.html (FP 11 beta not RC)

Samuel

hi

good idea, very usefull.

still, if the displayed bones would have a cone like shape (like in most 3d-apps) it would be easier to sepperate them from each other.

really nice work, Samuel.

Thanks Choons ! 

80prozent :i’m woking on what to you told me on your post

Sam

Great work, man!

A new one . It displays MD5mesh skeleton and bones.

http://www.visualiser.fr/fp11/Md5SkeletonAndBones.html

Sam

update for FP11 rc1. Seems to be faster ?

http://www.visualiser.fr/fp11/Md5SkeletonAndBones.html

Samuel

A new one, about 17 bones, 16 hingeConstraint, and 5000 faces cylinder. The rigid body skeleton is built at runtime.

Just clic and the ground to impulse force.

http://www.visualiser.fr/fp11/rope.html

Samuel

nice one

runs with 15fps on my old laptop….

are you still importing the skeleton/binding data with md5 ?

i am searching for example for creating skeleton without using the md5 importer.

60 fps on my one year old laptop(i7) And yes MD5mesh data are used to build the skeleton and the rigidbodies. I haven’t done a test for this one, but i almost sure GPU is not used for deforming the ‘rope’ whereas if it was a classic animation (md5export of a 3dsMax keyframes animation) where Away uses GPU to render the animation.
I think that I can inject jointPose transform data somewhere near the ‘SmoothSkeletonAnimator’ to use GPU to deform the mesh. I will try.

Samuel

bump. Hey Samuel did you ever determine whether the rope example is running om CPU or not? Devs you guys have an opinion on this?

For the rope,I ve just made a trace on _usesCPU in SkeletonAnimation and it returns false, so it uses CPU… It’s weird, because on the skinned ragdoll test I’m working, it returns true (so it uses GPU).  My character mesh contains less faces than the cylinder. 1600 vs 5000. Is there a relation ?  ? Both are MD5Mesh.

wait- is that backwards? usesCPU returns false so that means it uses GPU right?

EDIT - nevermind. just saw the note on the function: “Returns false if it cannot run on GPU”

which is still backwards to me - false should mean it ISN’T running on CPU

you re right they should named it _useGPU !

exactly well your examples are really nice. I’m studying them to see if I can figure out why one runs on GPU and the other doesn’t. I’ll post back if I find out why

Hey Samuel, check out this thread I started after the last post we had earlier

http://away3d.com/forum/viewthread/807/

looks like the note above usesCPU is incorrect. True means it’s running on CPU instead of what that note says. You can see that if you look down in SkeletonAnimation.as at function getAGALVertexCode