Unsupported animation in 3dsmax Babylon export?

[kevzettler]

I have an animated character scene that has an animated, rigged, skinned mesh for the character and some other rigged meshes for equipment. Babylon doesn't like how the equipment is animated when I export from 3dsmax to Babylon it doesn't animate the equipment meshes. I'm not sure whats special about the equipment meshes I think they are transforms?

Here is a video of the animation rendered from 3dsmax:

Here is a video of the animation exported to Babylon:

 

I'm not sure whats going on here I got the model from a 3rd party and animation is not my skill set. Heres a closer look at one of the helmet meshes that should be animated.

The modifiers are Xform, Material, Symmetry, Editable Poly. 

Hopefully someone can explain why this is broken and if I can fix it. Or what the proper way is to handle these animations.

[GameMonetize]

Could you try to reduce it to a simpler repro?

[kevzettler]

As I mentioned in my post, I got this model from a 3rd party and I don't have the animation skills to make something from scratch. I guess I could remove stuff from this scene until its at the bare minimum to reproduce. Would that help?

[Dad72]

You can also send your current model with the .max and .babylon and scene demo.html which reproduce the bug.

then send it by PM if you do not want to share your model (if you have buy)

[GameMonetize]

other guess: The armor is a different mesh and you have to launch skeleton animation on it too

[kevzettler]

@deltakosh I thought about that too. The video I have of the rigged babylon export is coming from when I use the Babylon 3dsmax exporter and hit `export & run`. It auto magically opened a localhost browser window and triggered the character animation. So I'm not sure what kind of setup it did for the animation. When I imported the `.babylon` file into my project I had to manually trigger the animation like:

var warrior = scene.meshes[0];      warrior.skeleton = scene.skeletons[0];      scene.beginAnimation(warrior.skeleton,0,325,true,1.0);

So its possible some of the other scene.meshes might have to be animated similarly?

@dad72 You want me to PM you the files? I can share my code project that has this effect with you guys as well

[Temechon]

You can PM me a zip file with your babylon files and your textures, I will try to check if another animation should be run.

[Dad72]

@kevzettler No, I thought you could send it to Deltakosh by MP if you did not want to share your mesh to the public.

 

 

[Supermitch]

I can actually see the issue in a test file. I see that with Deltakosh. Stay tuned !

[Temechon]

Ok Kev, just for your information: you have Supermitch on your issue, you can consider it solved

[GameMonetize]

The issue seems to be related to objects inheriting from bones which is not supported so far. Can you try to add mesh to your bones? So in this way the mesh will be exported and inherited objects will receive the right position/animations

[GameMonetize]

SuperMitch told me that you may just have to export your bones with renderable = true

[kevzettler]

@deltakosh can you clarify?

What do you mean 
 

Can you try to add mesh to your bones?

 

Where do I do that in 3dsmax? in the .babylon file? Again I don't really know what I'm doing in 3dsmax so the more direction the better.
 

you may just have to export your bones with renderable = true

 

Same questions. Do I set that in the 3dsmax file?

Thanks everyone for the quick replies.

[Supermitch]

No, there is another issue related to that one. We're on it !

[GameMonetize]

So far having a mesh inheriting from a bone is not supported and this seems to be your problem

[kevzettler]

So is it on the roadmap or should I move on?

[GameMonetize]

You may have two options here:

- Manually attach your mesh to the bone you want (see:http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/13491-attach-mesh-to-bone/page-3)

- Help me by adding this feature to the exporter