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Only animating specific nodes

by Daniel Buckmaster · in Artist Corner · 12/10/2008 (3:37 pm) · 9 replies

It's my understanding that Torque can run several non-blend threads on a shape at the same time, as long as they're not trying to animate the same nodes. Is this correct? If so, how do I specify which nodes an animation affects?

EDIT: Okay, actually, I think the second half of my question may be answered. If I turn certain nodes off in the node tab in the exporter, can I export a DSQ that is still compatible with an armature with all the nodes exported?
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Torque Owner Erik Madison
#1
12/10/2008 (9:00 pm)
Yes. and you can actually run conflicting animations; if they are NON-blends, the sequence priority is used. Priority ranges from 1-10 (0 is auto changed to 1 in code). 1 is low, 10 is high and will typically override any other animation.
To run multiple animations at a time, take a read through of plastic games series. They talked fairly extensively of threads and such.

Torque Owner Redacted
#2
12/11/2008 (1:12 am)
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Torque Owner Erik Madison
#3
12/11/2008 (12:30 pm)
Not true with CS bipeds, I frequently remove parent bones from my config files, ensuring ONLY the children are exported.

Torque Owner Redacted
#4
12/11/2008 (12:35 pm)
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Torque Owner Erik Madison
#5
12/12/2008 (9:22 pm)
Oops, never noticed what forum heading I was in :) Sorry...

Torque Owner Redacted
#6
12/12/2008 (9:40 pm)
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Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
#7
12/14/2008 (3:37 pm)
So if I just don't animate certain nodes, will that work as well as excluding them? Thanks for all the info - looks like my plan is a go!

Now, going even further than that... say I have different skeletons. Can they both run animations that only animate nodes they share? Say for example I have a human, and a human with a tail. The only difference between the armatures is th tail nodes that are children of an existing bone. Could I export a 'walk' animation from the human skeleton and play it on the other skeleton? The tail would not be animated, but I could play a separate thread for it.

Torque Owner Redacted
#8
12/14/2008 (3:45 pm)
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Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
#9
12/15/2008 (2:21 pm)
Brilliant, thanks for that :) Torque continues to pleasantly surprise me as often as it frustrates me...