DeleD Community Edition

gbison · Member Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 20

Hey all,

Im new here so please be easy on me...lol.

I have found DeleD a real treat to use for my development and since Garage Games is alive and kicking I have T3D up and running

. I have built several models for a new game my wife and I are working on using DeleD as the main modeling tool, but we have run into a problem. We can get our animations to work no problem and DeleD makes it super simple, I was very happy, but as fate would have it theres a problem. We can get our Collada exports into our Torque engine fine, but none of the animations are following? I have looked for some kinda of setting to include the animation data but I cannot find one, so Im curious if the collada exporter is bugged when it comes to animation data?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much. Smile

Jeroen · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:50 am Post subject:

Hey gbison, welcome to these forums. Smile

Right now, animation data in DeleD is only being written to its own DXS format. We need the various exporters to be updated with animation data, Collada being one of them.

We need one or two programmers willing to work on this. I have no time for this myself, I'm sorry to say, otherwise it would've been done already. It seems to me that if DeleD can export animations to Collada and other fileformats, its animation system would be used more widely...
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gbison · Member Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 20

Jeroen,

Thanks alot for your reply...

Yes I agree, Im actually a little astonished that these are not working for animations. We thought we had found a total solution in DeleD, which sadly at this point doesn't seem to be the case Sad

I know how it is though to have more on your plate than you know what to do with, which makes things like getting these exporters working properly a much more daunting task. As it is though, I guess the animations in DeleD are really a lost feature at this time since no one can get them into a usable format, which sadly enough is such a loss. Confused

Anyway, thank you for your help, it saved me alot of headache.

butler1970 · Member Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 7

I got animations to work with XNA for any format that DeleD CE will import by using the DXS file format itself. Don't know if this helps but if you're interested in seeing the source code for it in C#, check out my project.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/betasdk

gbison · Member Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 20

Butler, Thanks for the info..

However for the time being, since I need to concentrate on my current project is there something available that I can use along side DeleD for animation within my characters and objects? I guess in a sense a stand alone animation program?

Jeroen · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:38 am Post subject: Re: Thanks

butler1970 · Member Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 7

gbison · Member Joined: 14 Feb 2011 Posts: 20

Thanks alot guys, much appreciated.

John · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:08 pm Post subject:

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I feel like animation support for the Collada export plugin would really bring DeleD and this message board back to life. It would give us a straight shot to T3D, Unity, and C4. I would switch to Blender but the interface in DeleD is so damn intuitive I don't want to leave. :\

Jeroen · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:54 am Post subject: