How do I import animation?

General Discussion
1

I just went to the documentation and read about the animation in panda, and i’m little bit confused about the animation node…

nodePath = Actor('Model Path', {
  'Animation Name 1':'Animation Path 1',
  'Animation Name 2':'Animation Path 2',
})

What are those dictionary stuffs? are those models? do I have to make each model for each frame?

2

EGG file can contain different things, including animation data and it can be stored separately - one file for the model and another file for the animation data.
‘Model Path’ - your main file, which contain model mesh with joints (bones) structure.
‘Animation Name 1’:‘Animation Path 1’ - arbitrary name of animation to use in Panda later : path to the file with animation, for example ‘walk’.
‘Animation Name 2’:‘Animation Path 2’ - another animation, for example ‘shoot’

3

I made an animation with armature and I exported it using Yabee exporter but i’m only getting one egg file.

Do I have to export animation files separately? if so, how do I export animation file?

4

github.com/09th/YABEE/blob/mast … f?raw=true
See options->animation

5

I did manage to make animation files but now I have a new problem :frowning:

self.animodel = loader.loadModel('resources/modeltest.egg.pz')
    self.AModel = Actor(self.animodel, {'band1':'resources/modeltest_a01.egg.pz'})
    self.AModel.reparentTo(render)
    self.AModel.setPos(0, 40, 0)
    self.AModel.setScale(3, 3, 3)
    #self.AModel.loop('band1')
    
    self.AModelCTR = self.AModel.getAnimControl('ban1')
    self.AModelCTR.loop(restart = 1)

  1. why is ‘self.AModel.loop(‘band1’)’ not working? If I make an AnimControl, it works.

  2. setPos and setScale doesn’t work after AnimControl is created. Do you know how to fix this?

6

It should work. Perhaps something happens somewhere else in your code. To check it - make clean example with only loading and looping animated model.

7 
import direct.directbase.DirectStart
from direct.actor.Actor import Actor


class Application():
  def __init__(self):
    self.animodel = loader.loadModel('resources/modeltest.egg.pz')
    self.AModel = Actor(self.animodel, {'band1':'resources/modeltest_a01.egg.pz'})
    self.AModel.setPos(0, 40, 0)
    self.AModel.setScale(3, 3, 3)
    self.AModel.reparentTo(render)
    self.AModel.play('band1')

    #self.AModelCTR = self.AModel.getAnimControl('band1')
    #self.AModelCTR.loop(restart = 1)

    
Application()
run()

If I use getAnimControl, it plays the animation. But the position and the scale doesn’t work.

8

Ah, I know what happened. Try to use a = Application(). It’s not obvious, but Actor - is high-level Python class, so when you have no links on it, the garbage collector remove it and you loose control. It’s described here panda3d.org/manual/index.ph … Animations