Loki Eliot Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I've seen Some examples of animated mesh objects on YouTube. That's not mesh rigged and worn on an avatar but separate objects that animate. Is this possible, if so how? Or was it most likely UUID flipping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 UUID flipping is not allowed and requests for it are strongly resisted by the developers on performance grounds. You can get a mock animation by texture animation which sequentially hides parts of the mesh with tranparency. This can be a frame-type animation, which means restricted resolution, or by swapping textures on faces (as I have done only the first I can't be certain of the second). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashasekayi Ra Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 It might depend on the date of the video. Back in the earlier mesh testing days, UUID flipping was possible. It has been turned off now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Eliot Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Are there alternatives? does mesh bring any new options for this or are we stuck with static mesh objects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashasekayi Ra Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Well, they have stated that they want to give users the ability to make custom skeletons for worn mesh and rezzed objects in the future. But, it was clear this wouldn't be available when mesh hits the main grid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryozu Kojima Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 But there are plans to allow animating of mesh objects that are not attached, at least at some point in the future, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMadHatter Inventor Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 They are mesh but the armatures are faked like in sculpted prims. Try doing this... do a search for Transformers Beast Wars. The reason is due to the fact they use this very same trick you are seeing performed in SL with Mesh. So to answer your question yes it is real, but poorly done at best. No different than using sclpts except with the possibility to use more detail... which sadly there is a lack of understanding amongst creators using mesh; stating that SL does not need that much detail. **shakes head... But thats a discussion for another forum. Make SL beautiful!!! Enable Animated Mesh!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Energy Metaluna Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 i saw another post about trees and wind animation with mesh but same thing, no Havok Build tools to support like a "mockup" avatar to put a body on so no NPC toons are possible, but i am guessing if they ever actually did a copy and paste (yes) of the avatar code and made a second for non avatar use, it would probobly count against the sim avatar count also, and so on and so forth, but premade bone sets would be a great start for those into moving stuff lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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