As most of you know, I am building a script to import models to max, edit them and then export them back as originally used or how ever you want. Since I am more of a programmer and not a 3d programmer, I would like some advice and or help.
My biggest wall has been bones and animating them. I can import every single mesh file (o3d), but the bones (chr) and animation (ani) are giving me problems.
I will gladly hand this tool out to everyone once its completed but I sadly can't get this part right.
If anyone has experience with max or even how the files work, please post it here and I will hopefully get this working.
I can offer you all this early version to get mesh files to load as well as their textures to display. Except for Clockworks. Its texture is wrong for some reason.
Don't worry, the file is clean but the script itself is encrypted until its release. if you want to look at my problems here is the parts that need fixing.
Code:
on btnChr pressed do ( chr = ClsBoneData() f = getOpenFileName caption: "Import Bones" types: "Bone Definitions(*.chr)|*.chr" version = undefined ReadCHR f &chr &version CreateArray &BoneSet chr.BoneCount For I=1 To chr.BoneCount Do ( if chr.Parents[I] != 0 Then ( BoneSet[I] = BoneSys.CreateBone (point3 0 0 0) Z_Axis Y_Axis --BoneSet[I] = BoneSys.CreateBone pos1 pos2 Y_Axis BoneSet[I].name = chr.Names[I] BoneSet[I].width = 0.05 as Float BoneSet[I].height = 0.05 as Float BoneSet[I].Parent = BoneSet[chr.Parents[I]] BoneSet[I].transform = chr.TM[I] * chr.LocalTM[I] --BoneSet[I].pos = chr.TM[I][4] --BoneSet[I].length = distance BoneSet[I].Position BoneSet[chr.Parents[I]].Position ) ) For BoneID = 1 To chr.Names.Count Do ( obj = getnodebyname chr.Names[BoneID] if obj != undefined Then ( obpar = obj.parent if obpar != undefined Then obj.length = distance obj.pos obpar.pos ) ) ) on btnAniImport pressed do ( f = getOpenFileName caption: "Import Animation" types: "Animation (*.ani)|*.ani" ReadANI f &Animation /* * For BoneID = 1 To Animation.BoneData.names.Count Do * ( * obj = getnodebyname Animation.BoneData.names[BoneID] * if obj != undefined Then * ( * If Animation.BoneTM[BoneID] == undefined Then * ( * tm = Animation.BoneTM[BoneID] * * For FrameID = 1 To Animation.FrameCount Do * ( * rot = obj.rotation - Animation.BoneFrame[BoneID][FrameID].Rotation * trans = obj.position - Animation.BoneFrame[BoneID][FrameID].Translation * * animate on * ( * at time FrameID (obj.pos = trans; obj.rotation = rot) * ) * ) * -- get each translation keyframe * anim_keys = #() * for i in obj.controller.position.controller.keys do append anim_keys i.time * * -- get each rotation keyframe * for i in obj.controller.rotation.controller.keys do append anim_keys i.time * * -- store the bone transform for every frame there is a key * anim_transforms = #() * for i in anim_keys do * ( * at time i * ( * if obj.parent == undefined then * ( * -- world space transform * append anim_transforms obj.transform * ) else ( * -- parent space transform * append anim_transforms (obj.transform * inverse obj.parent.transform) * ) * ) * ) * print anim_transforms * * For J = 1 To Animation.FrameCount Do * ( * at time J ( if obj.parent == undefined then obj.transform = anim_transforms[J] else obj.transform = (anim_transforms[J] * obj.parent.transform)) * ) * * /* For FrameID = 1 To Animation.FrameCount Do * ( * animate on ( at time FrameID ( if obj.parent == undefined then obj.transform = anim_transforms[FrameID] else obj.transform = (anim_transforms[FrameID] * obj.parent.transform ) ) * ) * * ) * ) * ) */ )
