osgATK (now osgAnimation, I believe) provides an animation-based nodekit. It should be a good starting point for looking into animation in OSG.
Your first question seems somewhat contradictory. "Vertex animation" has traditionally referred to an older, obsolete style of animation based on saving the positions of all vertices, and manually manipulating each vertex to create the animation. "Skinned animation", on the other hand, refers to a more modern animation method, based on weighted vertex maps (skins) tied to a set of skeletal animation "bones". Only the bones are manipulated (and their data saved) in order to create (and describe) the animation. Are you currently looking for a method of skinned animation in OSG? Once again, I believe that osgAnimation provides the necessary tools to accomplish this. It may also provide the ability to determine the current frame or other animation state. I have no need for animation in my current use of OSG, so I can't offer any further help. Hopefully one of the osgATK/osgAnimation users (or developers) will be along shortly to provide more complete information on this subject. ------------------------ Matthew W Fuesz Software Engineer Asc Lockheed Martin STS ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://osgforum.tevs.eu/viewtopic.php?p=3826#3826 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
