B3D file format animation chunks

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Tom
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The mesh is a child of the 'mothernode' as displayed below.

TEXS Chunk
BRUS Chunk

ROOT NODE (the mothernode!:)
 |
 +-MESH Chunk
 |  |
 |  |-VRTS Chunk
 |  |-TRIS Chunk
 |
 +-ANIM
 |
 +-NODE (pelvis)
 |  |
 |  |-BONE
 |  |-KEYS
 |  |
 |  +-NODE (waist)
 |  |  |
 |  |  |-BONE
 |  |  |-KEYS
 |  |  |
 |  |  +-NODE (chest)
 |  |     |
 |  |     |-BONE
 |  |     |-KEYS
 |  |
 |  +-NODE (right_thigh)
 |     |
 |     |-BONE
 |     |-KEYS
 |     |
 |     | ...right_shin and so on


I store multiple anim sequences as 1 big KEYS chunk per node, then after loading in Blitz3D, I use extractanimseq() to assign my anim cycles, I can't say for sure that it's the 100% correct way to do it, but I know it works perfectly in my exporter.

Tom