3DS Max Animated Mesh - No Modifiers

[reddozen]

Animated mesh exported from 3DS Max 2013 using the babylon exporter.

 

Please see the link:

 

Adjusting the scale, rotation, and position doesn't get applied to the actual mesh.

 

 

Babylon Model Files:

Max Scene:

				BABYLON.SceneLoader.ImportMesh("", "../Models/Monsters/", "Boss_Pukui.babylon", scene,					function (mapZone, particleSystems, skeletons)					{						mapZone[0].rotationQuaternion = null;						mapZone[0].scaling = new BABYLON.Vector3(0.0005, 0.0005, 0.0005);						mapZone[0].rotation = new BABYLON.Vector3(0, -3.141593, 0.000000);						mapZone[0].position = new BABYLON.Vector3(-104.0314, 4.3437, -14.2259);					}				);

[JCPalmer]

I do not remember why I did this for code generated out of Tower of Babel (this part was very early), but I think it was the same as your problem.

 

Vector3 objects are assigned to scaling, rotation, & position in the Mesh constructor.  I just assign into the pre-existing ones:

        mapZone[0].position.x  = -104.0314;        mapZone[0].position.y  = 4.3437;         mapZone[0].position.z  = -14.2259;         mapZone[0].rotation.x  = 0;         mapZone[0].rotation.y  = -3.141593;         mapZone[0].rotation.z  = 0;         mapZone[0].scaling.x   = 0.005;         mapZone[0].scaling.y   = 0.005;         mapZone[0].scaling.z  = 0.005;

Later, I think I saw that you have to call some method that tells the system, that you changed the objects.  This was is what I prefer.
      

[GameMonetize]

An animated object is animated so if mesh.position is animated then you cannot control mesh.position because animations will overwrite your update

 

Other question: are you sure mapZone[0] is the mesh you want to control?

[reddozen]

then how do you place or move animated objects? Also, shouldn't scale also be independent of position then too?
 

 

mapZone[0] should be the first and only mesh in the babylon package, so unless i was addressing the actual animation in as the skeleton, then i would assume that mapZone would be what I want.

[GameMonetize]

To move an animated object you have to ensure that there is no position animation in your file. Is it the case?

[reddozen]

There shouldn't be. Any movement through the environment would be independent of the animations.