Animation

Classes
class	Ogre::AnimableObject
	Defines an interface to classes which have one or more AnimableValue instances to expose. More...
class	Ogre::AnimableValue
	Defines an object property which is animable, i.e. More...
class	Ogre::Animation
	An animation sequence. More...
class	Ogre::AnimationContainer
	An animation container interface, which allows generic access to sibling animations. More...
class	Ogre::AnimationState
	Represents the state of an animation and the weight of its influence. More...
class	Ogre::AnimationStateControllerValue
	ControllerValue wrapper class for AnimationState. More...
class	Ogre::AnimationStateSet
	Class encapsulating a set of AnimationState objects. More...
class	Ogre::AnimationTrack
	A 'track' in an animation sequence, i.e. More...
class	Ogre::Bone
	A bone in a skeleton. More...
class	Ogre::KeyFrame
	A key frame in an animation sequence defined by an AnimationTrack. More...
struct	Ogre::LinkedSkeletonAnimationSource
	Link to another skeleton to share animations. More...
class	Ogre::NodeAnimationTrack
	Specialised AnimationTrack for dealing with node transforms. More...
class	Ogre::NumericAnimationTrack
	Specialised AnimationTrack for dealing with generic animable values. More...
class	Ogre::NumericKeyFrame
	Specialised KeyFrame which stores any numeric value. More...
class	Ogre::Pose
	A pose is a linked set of vertex offsets applying to one set of vertex data. More...
class	Ogre::Skeleton
	A collection of Bone objects used to animate a skinned mesh. More...
class	Ogre::SkeletonManager
	Handles the management of skeleton resources. More...
class	Ogre::SkeletonSerializer
	Class for serialising skeleton data to/from an OGRE .skeleton file. More...
class	Ogre::TagPoint
	A tagged point on a skeleton, which can be used to attach entities to on specific other entities. More...
class	Ogre::TimeIndex
	Time index object used to search keyframe at the given position. More...
class	Ogre::TransformKeyFrame
	Specialised KeyFrame which stores a full transform. More...
class	Ogre::VertexAnimationTrack
	Specialised AnimationTrack for dealing with changing vertex position information. More...
struct	Ogre::VertexBoneAssignment_s
	Records the assignment of a single vertex to a single bone with the corresponding weight. More...
class	Ogre::VertexMorphKeyFrame
	Specialised KeyFrame which stores absolute vertex positions for a complete buffer, designed to be interpolated with other keys in the same track. More...
class	Ogre::VertexPoseKeyFrame
	Specialised KeyFrame which references a Mesh::Pose at a certain influence level, which stores offsets for a subset of the vertices in a buffer to provide a blendable pose. More...

Macros
#define	OGRE_MAX_NUM_BONES   256

Typedefs
typedef MapIterator< AnimationStateMap >	Ogre::AnimationStateIterator
typedef std::map< String, AnimationState * >	Ogre::AnimationStateMap
typedef ConstMapIterator< AnimationStateMap >	Ogre::ConstAnimationStateIterator
typedef ConstVectorIterator< EnabledAnimationStateList >	Ogre::ConstEnabledAnimationStateIterator
typedef std::list< AnimationState * >	Ogre::EnabledAnimationStateList
typedef std::vector< Pose * >	Ogre::PoseList
typedef struct Ogre::VertexBoneAssignment_s	Ogre::VertexBoneAssignment
	Records the assignment of a single vertex to a single bone with the corresponding weight. More...

Enumerations
enum	Ogre::SkeletonAnimationBlendMode { Ogre::ANIMBLEND_AVERAGE = 0, Ogre::ANIMBLEND_CUMULATIVE = 1 }
enum	Ogre::SkeletonChunkID {   Ogre::SKELETON_HEADER = 0x1000, Ogre::SKELETON_BLENDMODE = 0x1010, Ogre::SKELETON_BONE = 0x2000, Ogre::SKELETON_BONE_PARENT = 0x3000,   Ogre::SKELETON_ANIMATION = 0x4000, Ogre::SKELETON_ANIMATION_BASEINFO = 0x4010, Ogre::SKELETON_ANIMATION_TRACK = 0x4100, Ogre::SKELETON_ANIMATION_TRACK_KEYFRAME = 0x4110,   Ogre::SKELETON_ANIMATION_LINK = 0x5000 }
	Definition of the OGRE .skeleton file format. More...
enum	Ogre::VertexAnimationType { Ogre::VAT_NONE = 0, Ogre::VAT_MORPH = 1, Ogre::VAT_POSE = 2 }
	Type of vertex animation. More...

Detailed Description

Macro Definition Documentation

OGRE_MAX_NUM_BONES

#define OGRE_MAX_NUM_BONES   256

Typedef Documentation

AnimationStateMap

typedef std::map<String, AnimationState*> Ogre::AnimationStateMap

AnimationStateIterator

typedef MapIterator<AnimationStateMap> Ogre::AnimationStateIterator

ConstAnimationStateIterator

typedef ConstMapIterator<AnimationStateMap> Ogre::ConstAnimationStateIterator

EnabledAnimationStateList

typedef std::list<AnimationState*> Ogre::EnabledAnimationStateList

ConstEnabledAnimationStateIterator

typedef ConstVectorIterator<EnabledAnimationStateList> Ogre::ConstEnabledAnimationStateIterator

PoseList

typedef std::vector<Pose*> Ogre::PoseList

VertexBoneAssignment

typedef struct Ogre::VertexBoneAssignment_s Ogre::VertexBoneAssignment

Records the assignment of a single vertex to a single bone with the corresponding weight.

Remarks

This simple struct simply holds a vertex index, bone index and weight representing the assignment of a vertex to a bone for skeletal animation. There may be many of these per vertex if blended vertex assignments are allowed.

Enumeration Type Documentation

VertexAnimationType

enum Ogre::VertexAnimationType

Type of vertex animation.

Vertex animation comes in 2 types, morph and pose. The reason for the 2 types is that we have 2 different potential goals - to encapsulate a complete, flowing morph animation with multiple keyframes (a typical animation, but implemented by having snapshots of the vertex data at each keyframe), or to represent a single pose change, for example a facial expression. Whilst both could in fact be implemented using the same system, we choose to separate them since the requirements and limitations of each are quite different.

Morph animation is a simple approach where we have a whole series of snapshots of vertex data which must be interpolated, e.g. a running animation implemented as morph targets. Because this is based on simple snapshots, it's quite fast to use when animating an entire mesh because it's a simple linear change between keyframes. However, this simplistic approach does not support blending between multiple morph animations. If you need animation blending, you are advised to use skeletal animation for full-mesh animation, and pose animation for animation of subsets of meshes or where skeletal animation doesn't fit - for example facial animation. For animating in a vertex shader, morph animation is quite simple and just requires the 2 vertex buffers (one the original position buffer) of absolute position data, and an interpolation factor. Each track in a morph animation references a unique set of vertex data.

Pose animation is more complex. Like morph animation each track references a single unique set of vertex data, but unlike morph animation, each keyframe references 1 or more 'poses', each with an influence level. A pose is a series of offsets to the base vertex data, and may be sparse - ie it may not reference every vertex. Because they're offsets, they can be blended - both within a track and between animations. This set of features is very well suited to facial animation.

For example, let's say you modelled a face (one set of vertex data), and defined a set of poses which represented the various phonetic positions of the face. You could then define an animation called 'SayHello', containing a single track which referenced the face vertex data, and which included a series of keyframes, each of which referenced one or more of the facial positions at different influence levels - the combination of which over time made the face form the shapes required to say the word 'hello'. Since the poses are only stored once, but can be referenced may times in many animations, this is a very powerful way to build up a speech system.

The downside of pose animation is that it can be more difficult to set up. Also, since it uses more buffers (one for the base data, and one for each active pose), if you're animating in hardware using vertex shaders you need to keep an eye on how many poses you're blending at once. You define a maximum supported number in your vertex program definition, see the includes_pose_animation material script entry.

So, by partitioning the vertex animation approaches into 2, we keep the simple morph technique easy to use, whilst still allowing all the powerful techniques to be used. Note that morph animation cannot be blended with other types of vertex animation (pose animation or other morph animation); pose animation can be blended with other pose animation though, and both types can be combined with skeletal animation. Also note that all morph animation can be expressed as pose animation, but not vice versa.

Enumerator
VAT_NONE	No animation.
VAT_MORPH	Morph animation is made up of many interpolated snapshot keyframes.
VAT_POSE	Pose animation is made up of a single delta pose keyframe.

SkeletonAnimationBlendMode

enum Ogre::SkeletonAnimationBlendMode

Enumerator
ANIMBLEND_AVERAGE	Animations are applied by calculating a weighted average of all animations.
ANIMBLEND_CUMULATIVE	Animations are applied by calculating a weighted cumulative total.

SkeletonChunkID

enum Ogre::SkeletonChunkID

Definition of the OGRE .skeleton file format.

.skeleton files are binary files (for read efficiency at runtime) and are arranged into chunks of data, very like 3D Studio's format. A chunk always consists of: unsigned short CHUNK_ID : one of the following chunk ids identifying the chunk unsigned long LENGTH : length of the chunk in bytes, including this header void* DATA : the data, which may contain other sub-chunks (various data types)

A .skeleton file contains both the definition of the Skeleton object and the animations it contains. It contains only a single skeleton but can contain multiple animations.

Enumerator
SKELETON_HEADER
SKELETON_BLENDMODE
SKELETON_BONE
SKELETON_BONE_PARENT
SKELETON_ANIMATION
SKELETON_ANIMATION_BASEINFO
SKELETON_ANIMATION_TRACK
SKELETON_ANIMATION_TRACK_KEYFRAME
SKELETON_ANIMATION_LINK