Vertex animations

[Beobart]

Is it possible to use vertex animations for scene props?

 

[Vincenzo]

No.

Only with vertex shaders.

 

[Beobart]

Tell me more about these vertex shaders. 

 

[mskimizd]

you can see this thread
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,208694.0.html

 

[Maxim Suvorov]

No.

Only with vertex shaders.

In 1.15x(?) added prop_deform_to_frame (? or something like that), non-ideal, but for some cases could help

so you need something like this:

(0,0,0, [], [
#code
  #assume that we have in ":instance_no" id of prop inst that needs to be deformed
  (scene_prop_get_slot, ":time_from_last_deform", ":instance_no", scene_slot_time_from_last_deform),
  (store_mission_timer_a_msec, ":time"),
  (val_add, ":time_from_last_deform", ":time"),
  (ge, ":time_from_last_deform", ":anim_delay_between_frames"),
  (scene_prop_get_slot, ":cur_frame", ":instance_no", scene_slot_time_from_last_deform),
  (val_add, ":cur_frame", 1),
  (try_begin),
    (gt, ":cur_frame", ":max_frame_for_this_prop"),
    (assign, ":cur_frame", ":start_frame"),
  (end_try),
  (prop_instance_deform_to_frame, ":inatance_no", ":cur_frame"),
  #pseudocode end...
]),

 

[xenoargh]

That'd be handy for a bunch of things.

 

[_Sebastian_]

I haven't found any operation similar to "prop_deform_to_frame".
Are you sure that it exist?

 

[dunde]

Closest operation is WSE's prop_instance_set_vertex_keys_time_point

 

[Maxim Suvorov]

Closest operation is WSE's prop_instance_set_vertex_keys_time_point

right

 

[Lumos]

Closest operation is WSE's prop_instance_set_vertex_keys_time_point

right

There really isn't a prop_instance_deform_to_frame operation in the header_operations file. Perhaps such an operation exists but is undocumented?

 

[xenoargh]

I presume you've checked all three Module Systems?  If so, then yeah, it'd be nice to know what the command number is, instead of teasing us 

 

[Vincenzo]

It's a new operation TW added in the engine for Sich their new Caribbean title, maybe mister Suvorov forgot to mention that detail. 


Only way right now is still with vertex shaders.

 

[xenoargh]

Aw, it isn't nice to tease us like that

If they're adding things like that, I don't suppose they could add a method to advance to a given frame or morph between two vertex animation states on a weapon?  That would finally make complex firearms animations really practical, amongst other things.

Then again, that's right up there with finally being able to write whole new attack states instead of waiting for them to add them into the engine, like how I finally fixed the spear problems with the stuff you guys had added to support bayonet behaviors in NW, lol.

 

[Maxim Suvorov]

2xenoargh

For now you could use WSE in this case.

 

[Arsakes]

So in Warband 1.158 it is still impossible to use vertex animations for scene props, without WSE or shaders?

 

[La Grandmaster]

So in Warband 1.158 it is still impossible to use vertex animations for scene props, without WSE or shaders?

It hasnt been possible for a long time, if it ever was. You can animate props via the module systems but they only let you rotate/move the prop.

 

[Shcherbyna]

So in Warband 1.158 it is still impossible to use vertex animations for scene props, without WSE or shaders?

It hasnt been possible for a long time, if it ever was. You can animate props via the module systems but they only let you rotate/move the prop.

.. or (maybe) split vertex animation to set of scene_props and then replace them by 0_0_0_trigger..