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An "attachToBone" oddity?


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A few days back, dad72 posted a little piece of useful code for attaching an object to a specific bone. So I thought I would try it out.

 

Sword

 

It works, in the sense that I can add/ remove the "sword" (just a long thin cube) to a hand bone. BUT ...

 

Try this:

 

1. Check out the sword without clicking on it - appears like a normal elongated cube.

 

2. Click  on the sword - it attaches to the hand - but examine the sword now (without clicking on it) and the normals seem to be flipped.

 

3. Click on the sword - it detaches from the hand and returns to its original position - and the normals are back as they should be.

 

Anybody, any idea what is going on?

 

(Everything comes from Blender, I made sure that the normals are facing outside before exporting.)

 

cheers, gryff :)

 

 

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this is because the node matrix is inverted. This is not a problem for a node but for mesh it could be

 

Well to be honest DK, while I understand the general meaning of each of those words, I am still an Erasmus's "blind man" when it comes to understanding what the problem is here. :o

 

Can you control that on the Blender side?

 

 

Are you saying it is an issue with the Blender BJS exporter? An issue with Blender itself, or with the bone rig?

 

I will experiment a little more.

 

cheers, gryff :)

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First experiment was to try with the latest version of Blender (2.75a) and the latest version of the BJS exporter (3.0.5) - same result.

 

I actually had BJS exporter 3.0.0 installed in Blender 2.75a - that produced an even worse result, as clicking on the red elongated cube by the feet made it disappear completely :wacko:

 

cheers, gryff :)

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I think this is an issue with the bone rig

 

My first example used the "game rig" (32 bones) that came from MakeHuman, so I created from scratch a much simpler rig.

 

A Very Simple Rig

 

Basically a tube that bends - it has four identical bones (root, root1, head and head1 - all with the same "bone roll"). The scene has two materials, and two meshes. The animation works as it should.

 

Click on the green bar - it gets bound to the top bone ("head2") - but still the normals are flipped. Click again to detach - and normals are flipped back.

 

Et maintenant, l'epee de dad72.

 

cheers, gryff :)

 

 

 

 

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Well dad72 - here is your sword using the same simple rig I built:

 

dad72 sword

 

The sword is clickable just as the green cube I used before. Huge sword!

 

So, I positioned, scaled and rotated it. Same normal flipping as previous.

 

Mais, merci beaucoup encore.

 

Your bablylon file also gives me a chance to compare 3dMax and Blender export functionality :)

 

@DK: I will create a package of files later this afternoon.

 

cheers, gryff :)

 

 

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Ok DK here are my files for this demo:

 

Bend Tube

 

It uses the simple rig I mentioned above.

 

The zip file includes:

 

1. The Blender 2.75 . blend file - tube4.blend.

2. The export of the above with the 3.0.5 BJS exporter - tube4.babylon.

3. The exporter log file - no errors or warnings.

5 The index.html file that contains my javascript code.

 

Tube4.zip

 

Hope it helps.

 

cheers, gryff :)

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An as a further test on the new script with the original MakeHuman rig :

 

Sword 2

 

And it does not flip either, though the position that the sword ends up in is different - but that can be handled.

 

I'll say it again, well done DK :)

 

cheers, gryff :)

 

Edit: Using the new "preview release" script and

 

lol I fixed it and went to the wrong forum post

 

but fixing it was the important issue :D

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