NPC Animation

[raevol]

Gotta be able to have good framerates when I start brawls on the streets of Balmora.

(happens more often that you would expect)

[Zini]

I think this is purely about the camera, and if there is a wall in the way, it is not seen and the npc behind a wall would be animated anyways. Not completely sure yet.

Correct. This kind of culling is extremely hard to do and can easily result in an fps drop instead of an fps improvement. We will have to do without it in the foreseeable future.

[jhooks1]

Fixed a bug so changing cells works again. With every cell change though, we get more slowdown. I believe all the npc meshes from the previous cell should be destroyed, and this will fix the additional slowdown.

[jhooks1]

Finally figured out how to fix the death animations!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So Excited , more videos to come.

EDIT: Swimming and death both look so smooth.
Also I always thought the problem was with bounding boxes. It turns out it was not, it was just another ogre hiccup.

EDIT2: This fixes positioning too. Just committed my code to github.

[jhooks1]

Argonian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNUp1zJnt0
Breton wearing robe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFbk9XXQzA
Female Redguard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aA9XnqLQ6E

[jhooks1]

Can someone post these videos and the creature videos on the media page?

[lgromanowski]

Can someone post these videos and the creature videos on the media page?

Sure, I will do it in few moments

// EDIT: Done.

[jhooks1]

Thanks

[jhooks1]

I am now reading in the NiTextKeyExtraData and thinking of how I am going to organize and store all the information.

EDIT: Thought about it a little more. It would probably be easier to just store each string as it is literally, rather than parsing and reorganizing it.
I could make a std::map<std::string,float>
333.333 WeaponTwoWide: Unequip Detach
333.533 WeaponTwoWide: Unequip Stop

[jhooks1]

I grew tired of the way that nifskope displays the text entry (you have to click an arrow on each entry to view it). I wrote some code that outputs all this data from openmw to a text file. This can be turned off later when we don't need it anymore. In addition to being used for animations, the indices are also used to designate sounds.