BAM with animation support?

Pipeline
1

I’m trying to use the tobspr/RenderPipeline, and it recommends the BAM exporter. Unfortunately, this doesn’t support animated or rigged models. How can i use the modern pipeline with animated models?

2

You can still use YABEE for your animated models, just be sure to check its “PBS” option when exporting.
Adding support for animations is planned for the BAM exporter, but I don’t know if I will get to it in the near future.

3

Thank you. I assumed YABEE was obsolete and not going to be maintained anymore.

4

YABEE is still the most mature and well-supported solution for getting models out of Blender.

5

Is there a CLI tool to convert FBX or DAE to the Panda standard format? I don’t use Blender and having to export stuff from my tools to Blender, fix any issues, and then export again, is a terrible workflow.

6

Check the bin folder.

dae2egg.exe
dxf2egg.exe

Note that RenderPipeline will not work with standard material.

And I think we need to raise the issue of separating material from the egg file.

7

Besides dae2egg, there is also the Assimp loader, which can load FBX and DAE among a range of formats, directly into Panda’s native format. As of recently, it has experimental support for animations.

You will need a recent master build of Panda with Assimp support enabled, and then add to Config.prc:

load-file-type p3assimp

Then you can convert it like this:

model = loader.loadModel("model.fbx")
model.writeBamFile("model.bam")