Q3D V-2.4 [3D Physics + Skeletal Animation UPDATE]

It is a pity that the creator of Q3D did not follow the Plugin project. The Plugin is very good and optimized and for 4 years it seems to me that it has not updated it. Can you imagine if it kept updating? It would be a monster and of course it would sell like gold. I bought it 2 years ago.

The only thing I have not been able to do is export the animations from the .JS files naming them from 3DSMax. I can only export them without movement.

problem is that is a big hurdle. most of the short comings can be worked around. but not being able to play 3d animations well is a major hurdle.

Has anyone figured out how to do sprite billboarding in with Q3D in C2? I would like to do doom style rendering with sprites that will change the animation based on what direction the other sprite is facing. But I can't figure out how to determine what sprite to display based on the direction of the entity relative to the player.

I think a Dot Product would do the trick. Take the Dot Product of the surface normal and the direction to the player. If it is >0, then it is facing the player.

mmm I am trying my hardest but I must be overlooking something.

after digging this was the simplest understanding of dot product I could find. ( (a1,a2)•(b1,b2) = a1b1 + a2b2 )

but the code is not working as implemented (is not returning a number between 1 or -1)

It might be looking me right in the face but I am stuck right now. any input?

It is quite possible that what you have is okay, but I did notice two things:

1. Dot product will only evaluate from -1 to +1 if you normalize the vectors first. Since you haven't done this (and don't really need to), what you are seeing is the expected result. Since all you need is a number greater than 0, you should be fine.

2. Is the enemyFacing vector a position or a direction? If it is a direction, then you don't need to subtract the enemy's position from it to get dot2. If it is a position, then you are computing v2 correctly.

I'm not sure if dot1 and dot2 are being calculated directly, but from the numbers you have in the screenshot, they are both pointing roughly in the same direction. Their x and y components both have the same sign. The dot product should evaluate to be >0.

This looks great! Well done!

problem is that is a big hurdle. most of the short comings can be worked around. but not being able to play 3d animations well is a major hurdle.

Actually the problem exists in the plugin that exports from 3DSMAX to .js (If you export models but don't allow to name the different animations) then Q3D doesn't detect any ID animation even if they exist.

oh dang that stinks. is a fix in the works? or is .js a dead format?

wasn't their a blender plugin?

oh dang that stinks. is a fix in the works? or is .js a dead format?

wasn't their a blender plugin?

Apparently the Blender plugin does export animations because it allows you to name them, but the 3DSmax plugin only exports the static model.

I started a test in Q3D - Shame it cannot load in the colliders of a model too.

Basic shapes might work but its pretty tricky to work out how to load / place them into the scene.

I have not messed with 3d collision yet. doesn't Q3D let you use the object as it's own collision shape? or are you talking about separate data that was bundled with the object that Q3D does not load?