Hi! Me again!

It's fantastic to be able to do the bones animation on the GPU -- thanks again for implementing that a while back!

There doesn't appear to be a way to access the bone matrices outside of a shader, short of manipulating the bones themselves.

My request is that we have access to the bone matrices in Lite-C before a model is rendered (perhaps in a render event?) so that we can modify these matrices for other skinning, such as Dual Quaternion Skinning.

Jibb

EDIT: Or, alternatively, a flag for "dual quaternion skinning" and a DoBones equivalent for such modes, since dual quaternion skinning is very common in animation/rendering software and this would be much easier for users.

That great..

a full model data api would be nice. not the mdl7 library but something that is built into the engine with animation data access and everything. also access to all data for levels.

then the engine could be easily extended with importers (and exporters) for custom file formats. this would simplify creating a nice art pipeline a lot (for blender for example).

I can build in a function that gives access to the bones matrices. What you then do with them is up to you .

Thanks jcl, much appreciated