I know that you can do this with code, I *have* done it before, a long time ago and it was with WDL anyhow. I need to know how to combine vertex and bone animation for a specific purpose.

My model is animated using vertex animation, I want to add one bone for the character's head and rotate that bone to face the mouse to allow the character to look at the mouse pointer. The problem is that when I do this, the character will not animate using the vertex animations, even though there are no actual bones animations in the model.

I just need to know how to animate it using vertex animations while being able to modify the bone rotation at the same time. Everything else works great, that's the only thing that I need help with.

Hi, you need to animate via script with something like this,



Where the id file name "wheelFR" is object manipulated.

Thank you, but this solution is not what I was looking for. I thought I explained it good, I don't need code to animate bones, I know how to do it great. What I need is to know how to combine vertex and bone animation through script so that my character can animate using the regular vertex animation while I rotate the bone seperately. The result could be like a character walking forward while the bone controlling the head rotates to face the mouse. I know how to script everything else, I just need to know how to allow vertex animation to play while the bone rotates through code.

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This thread is the only information that I remember about this:

http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=213631

In ancient times of acknex there has been a developer who faked a bones animation to combine it with vertex animation.

I don't think that is possible, sorry.

First, you have to have the bone weighted to the mesh for the mesh to turn with bone.

Secondly, unless the bone is at the same position during the entire vertex animation, it isn't going to move anywhere with the model's vertex animation.

I just don't see it happening.

Now, for a non-animated model like a spaceship, you could place a bone on top of it, and then place and rotate another seperate model, like a turrent model on that bone. That you can do.

Loco

Thanks for the reply, but I *have* done this before, the manual actually says you can. I just dont remember how I did it a long time ago. The bone is weighted to the mesh and does in fact work, I just wanted to be able to get the head to turn to face the mouse while a vertex animation is running.

I can't think of anyway to do it. Wish you luck.

As I indicated earlier, you use bone animate.
In the meantime, vertices animation is still running.
So while player is happily running off to the war, its head with bone animation is loooking around, while it is running!

Lol.