Whew, creating a tutorial like this really makes me appreciate Psionic, Krylar, and all the others who have made such good ones for Blitz programmers in the past! Theirs are so thorough and well put-together compared to this first effort. :)
Anyway, this is a summary of how I created the SkelWalk files above. It's a little rough around the edges, but will hopefully help others in getting started.
Poser, LithUnwrap, MilkShape, CharacterFX Tutorial
If it gives anyone problems or you see errors in it, please let me know. It uses the "detailed" way of assigning vertices in CFX - it's also possible to select a named section of mesh and assign all its vertices to a joint at once, the same way you can in MilkShape. That works nicely for a skeleton, but not well when there's flesh and clothing involved. So, I demonstrate the "picky" way of doing it.
I'm continuing to learn new things to do in Blitz with .BVHs and .B3Ds originally from Poser. I'll see if I can't put them together into a nice demo in the next few days.
I'll be interested to see what you're doing, EbolaBoy. I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw bones in Blitz and thought, "Poser should work great with these!" :)
Anyway, this is a summary of how I created the SkelWalk files above. It's a little rough around the edges, but will hopefully help others in getting started.
Poser, LithUnwrap, MilkShape, CharacterFX Tutorial
If it gives anyone problems or you see errors in it, please let me know. It uses the "detailed" way of assigning vertices in CFX - it's also possible to select a named section of mesh and assign all its vertices to a joint at once, the same way you can in MilkShape. That works nicely for a skeleton, but not well when there's flesh and clothing involved. So, I demonstrate the "picky" way of doing it.
I'm continuing to learn new things to do in Blitz with .BVHs and .B3Ds originally from Poser. I'll see if I can't put them together into a nice demo in the next few days.
I'll be interested to see what you're doing, EbolaBoy. I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw bones in Blitz and thought, "Poser should work great with these!" :)