Model Animation - rotate Head part ?

[Marcousik]

Hello,

I was searching for this but could not find really something,

Is it possible to rotate the Head while playing an "classic" animation like out of mixamo ?

As for example if NPCs should look /turn head focusing/pointing on the player (or something else) while they are animated with a classic "Stand" animation ?

Here there is something with Blendtime and rotation, but not sure if this is for specific Bones rotation...

https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=API-Reference_Object_Entity_PlayAnimation

[macklebee]

I have not ever been successful to get individual bones to manually move while using the "new" PlayAnimation() command, but if you use the older, original command for animation, SetAnimationFrame(), you can rotate individual bones while playing animations.

example:

window = Window:Create("Example", 0, 0, 800, 600, Window.Titlebar+Window.Center)
context = Context:Create(window)
world = World:Create()
camera = Camera:Create()
camera:SetPosition(0,.8,-1.8)
light = DirectionalLight:Create()
light:SetRotation(35,35,0)

player = Model:Load("Models/characters/crawler/crawler.mdl")
frame = 0
blend = 1
sequence = "Run"

Head = player:FindChild("Bip01 Head")
Rot = Head:GetRotation(false)

while not window:KeyHit(Key.Escape) do
	if window:Closed() then return false end

	player:SetAnimationFrame(frame,blend,sequence,true)
	frame = frame + Time:GetSpeed()/2.5

	 if window:KeyDown(Key.Left) then Rot.y = Rot.y - 1 end
	 if window:KeyDown(Key.Right) then Rot.y = Rot.y + 1 end
	 if window:KeyDown(Key.Up) then Rot.z = Rot.z - 1 end
	 if window:KeyDown(Key.Down) then Rot.z = Rot.z + 1 end
	 Rot.y = math.max(Rot.y, -45)
	 Rot.y = math.min(Rot.y, 45)
	 Rot.z = math.max(Rot.z, -120)
	 Rot.z = math.min(Rot.z, -40)
	 Head:SetRotation(Rot.x, Rot.y, Rot.z, false)

	 Time:Update()
	 world:Update()
	 world:Render()
	 context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)
	 context:DrawText("Press Arrow Keys to Move Head",2,2)
	 context:DrawText("Rot: "..Rot:ToString(),2,22)
	 context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Solid)
	 context:Sync(true)
end

[Marcousik]

This is genious 100 * thanx !

Question more, should it be possible using the "new" PlayAnimation() command or not ?

[macklebee]

As far as I can tell - no. But if you figure it out - please share