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From: "Carlos Pieterse" <john-doe@image.dk>
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Subject: Animated 3D Objects!?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:15:01 +0200
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Being new to the Playstation 3D arena, I have a few questions I hope someone
will answer (which will be greatly appropriciatet).

I have quite easily managed (due to the pslibs) to program some 3D objects,
but now I wish to go a little further by animating the objects, i.e. making
a person (object of a person!) walk, jump, hit etc.

Here I have two possibilities (at high level!):

1) Split up the object in parts ( i.e. hand, upper arm, lower arm, body head
etc. ), define them as individual objects and then move/rotate each part to
fit the object (for each move), but this requires a lot of calculations of
each object (and a real pain in the a.. programming!).

2) Change some coordinates of the object, for each move. But here I have to
do some real hard work finding out which coordinates (and position in the
tmd file), I must change for each move. So the obvious solution to this
matter would be a program with a GUI. for moving/rotating the object and
then dumping/ saving the differential coordinates. At this point I have only
come across one program named RSDANIM v1.3, which I had the impression was
capable of doing this job (generate MIME, but I am absolutely not certain
about if this is what I am searching, nor the the meaning of MIME?!) but I
have not been able to do anything with it. (is there a documentation
available somewhere? I have given up experimenting with it, as it crashes a
lot. Btw I find that not even the wrap texture works properly! -Craig
Graham, hope you'll find the time and motivation to update it!)



Please explain me how the usual technique for doing animated 3D objects on
PlayStation, and what programs you use to save your developing (programming)
time!!!


Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Carlos Pieterse.

email:
john-doe@image.dk