Animation morphing with 3ds max to Babylon

[Dad72]

Hello,

 

How Morpher type of animation is recovered with babylon? I create facial animations to give emotions to the character through the Morpher modifier, but I do not know how to trigger them by name (there it is no animation key, but names).

 

scene.beginAnimation is what can do that? and how ? Or is there a different function to do this.

 

Here in pictures:

 

 

Looking at the image I would recover the animation 'MMM' which plays this frame 0 100

 

Thank you for help

 

 

[gryff]

I take it the picture is a screen shot of 3DMax dad?

 

I know JCP is working on something for Blender export (shape keys/morphs) - but I have no idea how those shape keys/ morphs would be included into BJS and, indeed,  how they would be animated.

 

An animation can certainly be created in Blender and I assume in 3DMax too.

 

cheers, gryff

[Dad72]

Yes, the picture is a screen shot of 3ds max. So Babylon can not play that kind of animation? 

Because the animation is of vertex deformation, it should be save somewhere I guess.

[GameMonetize]

Hello

 

unfortunately morpher is not supported so far

[Dad72]

Is this a feature set for 2.3? My current project depends heavily on that.

[GameMonetize]

Not for 2.3 (unless someone in the community wants to contribute)

[MarianG]

Hi, dad72

Maybe you can use joints instead of morphs, and then in BJS play with bones matrix.

Something like that:

BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("", babylons_url, "name.babylon", scene, function(m, p, s) {		for(var i in s[0].bones){	    if(i!=0){	        joint[i] = s[0].bones[i];		matrix[i] = s[0].bones[i].getLocalMatrix(); 	    }	} 	init_slider(); })function init_slider(){		var m = [];	for(var i in joint){		m[i] = joint[i].getLocalMatrix().clone();	}	  	$("#slider1").slider({step:0.1,min:0.5,max:2,value:1,slide:function(event,ui){				var scaleMatrix = BABYLON.Matrix.Compose(new BABYLON.Vector3(ui.value, ui.value, ui.value), BABYLON.Quaternion.Identity(), BABYLON.Vector3.Zero());		m[1].multiplyToRef(scaleMatrix, matrix[1]);  		joint[1].markAsDirty();	 	}});}

And you can use multiple sliders, you can affect two bones in the same time, and you can rotate or translate bones too.

[Dad72]

Hi bulisor,

I have many models that uses Morpher, I'm not going to restart all the work done. But thank you for your proposal. 

[Dad72]

Hi,

 

Maybe you can use joints instead of morphs, and then in BJS play with bones matrix.

 

I think I will study this method. But I do not understand how to create morphs joints. Can I have more details on how to do this with bones?

Can I from what I done with "morpher", add bones to make it work in babylon. (to keep what I did with "morpher" + "bones" for Babylon)

 

It is unfortunate that Babylon does not yet have this type of functionality: The animations by vertex with "morpher".

 

Thanks for help

[Dad72]

Anyone has any advice?

[adam]

I'm also interested in this.  I would rather use shape keys to make my character's eye blink than the way I am doing it now.

[Dad72]

If, for example, I get the status of my morphs and I create a "key" mouth close and I create a "key" mouth open. Is Babylon able to read this animation?

The creation of bones is can not be necessary ?

 

[WolfKodi]

JCPalmer have something written for Blender: http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/7459-boneless-deformationanimation-blender-shape-keys-exploratory/?hl=shapekey

I'm not sure if you can transfer Morph shapes from 3DS Max to Blender.