Anim8or Community

Hi Steve,

do you plan to had support for Collada (or FBX) export in a near future ?

Anim8or is a great free tools which could be used with some major Game Engine such as Unity 3d ou Unreal Engine for people which do not have money to buy 3DS Max or for people which do not like Blender.
But Anim8or do not export animation to any format, so it's not very usefull.
Collada is a standard which are supported by Unity and a lot of Game Engine or modeling tools (Blender 3D, which could be used as a export Collada files from Anim8or to FBX or other formats).

Exporting animations to Collada could be a VERY important feature.
Exporting sequences would be a great start (Exporting scene animations is less important) to be able to export skinned meshes animations of characters.

Thanks.

Ani2Pov v0.92 is available:
#  Warning: This version recquires the Visual C++ 2008 redistributable.
# Several bugs have been fixed.
# New file formats are supported.
# Please read the manual.
# I can't do a lot of tests. Please report any bugs.

Ani2Pov can import files from:

Common interchange formats:

# Collada ( *.dae )
# Blender 3d ( *.blend )
# 3D Studio Max 3DS ( *.3ds )
# 3D Studio Max ASE ( *.ase )
# Wavefront Object ( *.obj )
# Stanford Polygon Library ( *.ply )
# AutoCAD DXF ( *.dxf )
# LightWave ( *.lwo )
# Modo ( .lxo )
# Stereolithography ( *.stl )
# AC3D ( *.ac )
# Milkshape 3D ( .ms3d )
# TrueSpace ( .cob,.scn ) (limited support)

Game file formats:

# Valve Model ( *.smd,*.vta )
# Quake I ( *.mdl )
# Quake II ( *.md2 )
# Quake III ( *.md3 )
# Quake III BSP ( .pk3 )
# Return to Castle Wolfenstein ( *.mdc )
# Doom 3 ( *.md5 )

Other file formats:

# DirectX X ( *.x ).
# BlitzBasic 3D ( .b3d )
# Quick3D ( *.q3d ).
# Ogre XML ( .mesh.xml )
# Irrlicht Mesh ( *.irrmesh ).
# Irrlicht Scene ( *.irr ). (limited support)
# Neutral File Format ( *.nff )
# Sense8 WorldToolKit ( *.nff )
# Object File Format ( *.off )
# PovRAY Raw ( *.raw )
# Terragen Terrain ( *.ter )
# 3D GameStudio ( *.mdl )
# 3D GameStudio Terrain ( *.hmp )
# Izware Nendo ( .ndo )


The link:
http://texel3d.free.fr/projets/ani2pov

It would be great to have a good uv editor.
The user could select one or several faces. Click on the "Open UV Editor" menu.
A window is displayed with the texture (in a quad).
On the texture the selected faces would be displayed (the uv of vertices would be used as position on the texture).
The user can select a vertex on the window and slide it to change the uv of the vertex in real time.
The window would also have 2 edit boxes to modify the uv coordinates (if the user want accurate and specific values).
If the uv coordinates are greater than 1.0. it would be packed to [0,1], but the edit boxes would display 8.0 instead of 1.0.

(several uv channel would also be greate).

Ani2Pov v0.90 is available:
#  Warning: This new version recquires the Visual C++ 2008 redistributable.
# Several bugs have been fixed for animated sequences export.
# Ani2Pov can now export Anim8or files to Ogre3D (.mesh and basic .material in XML format) and Irrlicht 3D (.irrmesh). Animations are not supported yet.
# Please read the manual.
# I can't do a lot of tests. Please report any bugs.

Ani2Pov can import files from:

# Collada ( *.dae )
# 3D Studio Max 3DS ( *.3ds )
# 3D Studio Max ASE ( *.ase )
# Wavefront Object ( *.obj )
# Stanford Polygon Library ( *.ply )
# AutoCAD DXF ( *.dxf )
# LightWave ( *.lwo )
# Stereolithography ( *.stl )
# AC3D ( *.ac )

# Valve Model ( *.smd,*.vta )
# Quake I ( *.mdl )
# Quake II ( *.md2 )
# Quake III ( *.md3 )
# Return to Castle Wolfenstein ( *.mdc )
# Doom 3 ( *.md5 )

# DirectX X ( *.x ).
# Quick3D ( *.q3d ).
# Irrlicht Mesh ( *.irrmesh ).
# Irrlicht Scene ( *.irr ).
# Neutral File Format ( *.nff )
# Sense8 WorldToolKit ( *.nff )
# Object File Format ( *.off )
# PovRAY Raw ( *.raw )
# Terragen Terrain ( *.ter )
# 3D GameStudio ( *.mdl )
# 3D GameStudio Terrain ( *.hmp )

Ani2Pov also converts .an8 files from Anim8or to:

# PovRay
# MilkShape3d (.ms3d and .txt)(with animations)
# SMD (Half-Life)(with animations)
# Collada (.dae)
# ASE (.ase)
# AC3D (.ac)
# VideoScape files (.obj)
# Ogre 3D (.mesh and basic .material in XML format)
# Irrlicht 3D (.irrmesh)


The link:
http://texel3d.free.fr/projets/ani2pov

Ani2Pov v0.80 can now export objects and scenes in Collada file format (.dae):
# Animations are not supported.
# Some features of Anim8or are not exported yet (such as CubeMap, skybox,...).
# Please read the manual.
# I have not done a lot of tests. Please report any bugs.

Ani2Pov also converts .an8 files from Anim8or to:
# PovRay
# MilkShape3d (.ms3d and .txt)(with animations)
# SMD (Half-Life)(with animations)
# Collada (.dae)
# ASE (.ase)
# AC3D (.ac)
# VideoScape files (.obj)


The link:
http://texel3d.free.fr/projets/ani2pov

Hi,

This new feature could be usefull for uv editting:

If you have a mesh with a texture and uv on vertices.
_ You click on an option (maybe called "Active UV folow")
_ And when you move one or more vertices, the UV coord of vertices are updated in order to move in the texture space in the same relative distance (using the previous UV coord of all vertices of the same face).

example:
http://texel3d.free.fr/bugs/active_texture.jpg

I have also a question:
How do i edit the uv coord of a vertex of a face "by hand" (example: to set (0.85, 1.0) in a dialog box for a vertex ) ?
Is it possible without editing the .an8 file with wordpad ?

Ani2Pov v0.70 can now convert sequences from Anim8or to .SMD files used by the game "Half-Life":
http://texel3d.free.fr/projets/ani2pov

Skinned meshes are not supported.
Please read the manual
Any bug reports are welcome.

Hi,

i have a question about the .an8 file format in the weights chunk.
Example:

weights { "mesh02"
            (1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))
            (1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))(1 (7 1))
          }

mesh02 is the mesh where to find the vertex
after it seems to be for all vertices the number of bone which influence the vertex and after the bone ID and the weight for this bone.
( NbrBone ( Bone0 Weight0 ) ( Bone1 Weight1 ) ...)

But how to find which Bone ID match with which bone ? BoneID = 0 doesn't seems to be the root.