[xoreos-devel] Kotor mdl models

[Dmitry Savchenko]

Yes, thanks for quick reply.
I will also try to investigate this, but I am very doubt in my reverse engineering skills.
but any way, if I will find something, I will write results to you.

Cheers,
Dmitry



> 21 серпня 2015 р. 23:26:57 пользователь Sven Hesse (drmccoy at drmccoy.de) написал:
> 
> On 2015-08-21 22:18:55 +0300, Dmitry Savchenko wrote:
> > Hi developers of the xoreos,
> 
> Hej! :)
> 
> > but stuck on the animations of the placebles(not
> > creatures).
> 
> Hmm, I personally haven't yet done anything for KotOR animations yet
> (but it's on the TODO list). So I can only offer guess-work.
> 
> > positionkey
> > 0 -0.2309760004282 -0.0177801996469498 0.010844400152564
> > 
> > orientationkey
> > 
> > 0 1.66655885251617e+036 1.81793339299717e+034 0 3.14159265358979
> > 
> > As I am understand first number it is a time mark, and then x,y,z in position and
> > axisAngle quartet in orientation.
> 
> If we're going by how the NWN models do it (and how I assumed KotOR
> would work as well), then yes, this would be correct.
> 
> Well, except that the actual orientation value in the file is a
> quaternion instead of an axis-angle, but mdlops converts it. So yes,
> stil correct.
> 
> > positionkey
> > 0 -0.041916698217392 0.096728503704071 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0.0645015016198158 0 0 0 0
> > 0 0 0 0 -0.0474167987704277
> > 0.100000001490116 -0.041916698217392 0.096728503704071 -0.00970267038792372 0 0
> > 0.0229321997612715 0 0 -0.0474167987704277 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1.90687000751495 0
> > 0.200000002980232 -0.041916698217392 1.33635848760605 0 0 0 0 0
> > 0.533333003520966 -0.041916698217392 0.096728503704071 0
> > 2 -0.041916698217392 0.096728503704071 0
> > 
> > Orientation is the same as in creature's orientation, but it seems there is
> > something wrong with PositionKey.
> 
> This is indeed curious. Especially seeing such a wide range of number
> of values.
> 
> Maybe the placeables specify a full transformation matrix for the
> position controller? But then, what to do with the missign values in
> each batch? Set to 0.0? Leave them as they are?
> 
> Just as a test, I hacked in quick animation reading in xoreos' KotOR
> model loader, and I can confirm that there's a variable number of
> values for the position controllers. But: there's also a variable
> amount of values for the orientation controllers.
> 
> So yeah, I have no idea what is going on, sorry. This needs further
> experimentation. Maybe even digging through the KotOR disassembly
> (always a joy). And before I can actually test any of this, I'd need
> to hook up the animation system to the KotOR models proper. This could
> take a while...
> 
> Unless someone else can chime in here, I'll have to note that down as
> a task to investigate further, in the (near?) future. When I find out,
> I can contact you again. And should you find out, please contact me in
> turn. Deal? :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Sven
> 
>