   Ms3d Skeletal Animation...    
  Hi! I'm a kind of a newbie to OpenGL programming and i'm making making a demo in wich i wanted to include an animated ms3d model, the question is i really don't understand exactly what's the information stored in .ms3d files. I've already read the sdk documentation but didn't understand what's really stored (is it all relative data? Is it all absolute data?). I'm also having trouble in understanding why in the Ms3d skeletal animation tutorial it keeps rotating "something" by "something's" inverse matrix. In conclusion i didn't understand much about loading .ms3d files, if you could give me some other links or informations where i can hold on. Thank u all for your time.Best RegardsAlexJzzGtr.[edited by - AlexJzzGtr on July 17, 2002 9:20:47 AM]
  Yep, I was looking for the same, but couldn''t findso 2 votes ;  Hi,umm... pretty sure I didn''t write rotating "something" by "something" in the tut.  I think I explained each term, but if not (or not well enough!) please let me know - just email me some more specific questions.The MS3D file format in the SDK is ok, except for the htings you''ve mentioned. However, hopefully with my code and the ASCII loader Mete provides (which I used to figure it out) should be enough. ~~~Cheers!Brett PorterPortaLib3D : A portable 3D game/demo libary for OpenGLCommunity Service Announcement: Read How to ask questions the smart way before posting!  ;  Brett,Is it just me or the new version of your Milkshapeimporter causes an error in WinXP? I have a feeling thatit has something to do with your textures as puttingthe new model without the textures into the old importerworks fine but it crashed when I put the textures in.BTW, great tutorial there! I really love it and I have learned a lot from it. Thanks! ^_^ _________________   Best regards,    Sherman Chin  www.Sherman3D.com;  The tutorial crashes in both XP and NT...Too bad - was looking forward checking it out.  ;  The tutorial crashes in both XP and NT...Too bad - was looking forward checking it out.  ;  tahts strange i just ran it in xp and it did crash.  It worked fine on my 98 machine    ByteMe95::~ByteMe95()My S(h)ite;  The skeletontut didnt work for me either (Win Xp).But I removed everything that had anything to do with the class ''Quaternion'' and changed everything with for example Matrix& matrix to Matrix *matrix. Had to change som dots (.) to -> too and add & when it wasnt a pointer.So after a lot of remaking it works for me. Compiled with Visual C++ 6.0.  ;  It didn''t work under XP for me either. Haven''t tried to adjust it yet though    A CRPG in development...Need help? Well, go FAQ yourself. ;  SET COMPATIBLITY MODE 98/ME on ALL THE EXE''s FOR MILKSHAPE AND WORKED FINE FOR ME 