Animations?

Hi all,

What do you guys usually use for timers?

Are there any examples of the keyframe animation features in SIO2?


Best,
-joshua

Regarding the keyframe animation, I just found this post:

http://forum.sio2interactive.com/about-the-sdk-f1/keyframe-animation-t60.htm?highlight=animation

So the question remains about what kind of timer would be good for *simple* animations.


Best,
-j

What exactly do you mean with "timer"? sio2 offers some methods and attributes for time measurements. Personally, I use the SIO2window.d_time attribute (float, seconds) and in some cases sio2GetElapsedTime() (unsigned int, milliseconds since 1/1/1970 or so).

Best,
Matt

Hey Matt,

How about some type of timer class which does a callback?

I'm spoiled from working with Qt's excellent QTimer classes.


Best,
-joshua

You won't find a class since SIO2 is pure C (except external libs like Bullet). Still, writing an own one isn't a big deal, I guess, and adding a C-like structure with a C function pointer for exactly this purpose would be a nice addition to SIO2 indeed.

Best,
Matt

Definitely... you get it in the next release

It's so good to have animations in next release!

And do you have any idea about when will the next version being released?



again!

Argh! Now that I have written my own model format/converter, interpolation, rendering,... ;-) Looking forward to seeing the new animation system.

Best,
Matt