T3D: Export Each Separate Animation to DSQ or Collada?

#1 I think you can save out a DTS without mesh data and only animation data....it would still be a DTS binary file, however.

You can use the Shape Editor to do this....remove all the object data and leave the skeleton/nodes. This won't help you outside of T3D though. Use the TSShapeConstructor object and scripting to edit your sequences inside T3D and to load them into another similar shape.

Good luck!

#2 Hmm - you could try the file menu Export to COLLADA - but then you'd probably have to dig your sequences out of the XML by hand....

#3 Wow, you can export a rig thru DAE in the UI?? I thought it was only for interiors...go figure.

#4 I said "try" - I haven't tried it myself... lol

#5 I tried, and failed...and I could hear Yoda telling me not to try, but to do. It looks like I could have one dae to hold the animations and the mesh and just access those animations from another object. Just treat it as a library of sorts. That would be good enough. If not I could resort to writing a python script to parse the xml. I already have one to pretty print the Blender output so I can manually read through the structure.

#6 Yep, sounds like a 'best' practice for you, Frank. Keep the DAE as a 'library' and just assemble with a Constructor script at load time...it all loads to memory anyways...even DTS, you got the keyframes, hierarchy, and objects; assemble to your heart's contentment!

#7 I will make sure and say, "It's alive!!!" when my FrankenMesh starts walking!

Wait, "FrankenShape"!