Character editor :?

Development
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I have no idea how to do the following:


  • I want a character editor where you can provide features such as hair color, height, fat, muscle, and some other basics like many of today's games.


  • I want to turn the character to wear clothing and change clothing.



    I'd like to do this and leave it as open source, but I want to help me with some ideas how I can start.



    I thought I'd edit the xml export to ogre, and reloading the model, but still do not know how to do with the animation, any suggestions?  :?



    more or less something like



 
   
 
 
   
 

     
   

     
   






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If you want to do it the "right" jme way you should use the internal jme binary or xml format. That is the only way to store all jme-related information properly.

Conversion from and to ogrexml will not keep all of the information about your model and is also overhead that should not be generated in a production game.

Hope this helps,

Normen

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The question is once you got the character setup, what then? It makes no sense to

ask questions about character-editors before you got familiar with jME and it's animation-system

and assets-pipeline.

Start with small samples e.g. the ninja-animation demo, try to export your

own character, understand what is behind that, and sooner or later you are able to answer that

question on your own.

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I have a question, can I assign an animation to two mesh?

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You can assign an animation to as many meshes as you want, but you cannot dynamically add/remove skins from a skeletal animation (yet).

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May be you want something like makehuman (or poser), export the result in something like blender and tweak it.

The weakness of both makehuman and poser i the result is too much high poly, but makehuman is opensource and may be you can customize it.



Bye, Berserk.

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