animate cal3d bones

[Karla]

I noticed that for the Q1 2008 Release of Vizard, vizact.boneSpinTo() is listed as an addition.

vizact.boneSpinTo() action for animating avatar bones

I am running vizard_3.00.2701. I cannot find any additional information about vizact.boneSpinTo() in the Help Documentation.

Can someone please post an example of how to use vizact.boneSpinTo() without including the sample script as posted above? For now I'm using the sample script but more condensed code would be preferable.

Thanks!

~Karla

[farshizzo]

Here is a short sample:

lookLeft = vizact.boneSpinTo('Bip01 Head',mode=viz.AVATAR_LOCAL,euler=(-90,0,0),speed=90)

avatar.runAction(lookLeft)

And here is the documentation for the command:

<vizact>.boneSpinTo(	    
    bone	    
    mode = viz.ABS_PARENT	    
    quat = None	    # Keyword argument
    euler = None	    # Keyword argument
    axisAngle = None	    # Keyword argument
    speed = None	    # Keyword argument
    time = None	    # Keyword argument
)

 

bone
An Avatar bone object or the name of a bone.

mode = viz.ABS_PARENT
The transformation mode to apply the rotations with

quat = None
The quaternion rotation to spin to

euler = None
The euler rotation to spin to

axisAngle = None
The Axis-Angle rotation to spin to

speed = None
The speed to spin at in degrees/sec

time = None
The amount of time to spin for

[Karla]

Thank you!

I was working in a long file, which made troubleshooting more difficult than necessary. I made the following concise example and got it to work. With a more positive resolve, I was able to find my mistakes in the longer file. It's all working now.

Thanks,
Karla

#******************************************************************************************
#******************************************************************************************
#Trying to use boneSpinTo with avatar in Art Gallery
#Created: May 6th, 2008
#******************************************************************************************
#******************************************************************************************

import viz
import viztask 	#For wait time

viz.go()

viz.MainView.setPosition(0,1.72,7.5)
viz.MainView.setEuler(183,0,0)

#Add an avatar
male = viz.add('male.cfg'); male.translate(0.25,0,5.5); male.rotate(0,1,0,-3); male.state(1)				#Start in neutral state animation
face1 = male.face('biohead_talk.vzf')	#add a face to the avatar

#speed settings for boneSpinTo()
headSpeed = 100
	
def SpinHeadLeft():
	yield viztask.waitTime(2)		#Wait 2 seconds
	lookleft = vizact.boneSpinTo('skel_Head',mode=viz.AVATAR_LOCAL,euler=(-90,0,0),speed=headSpeed)
	male.runAction(lookleft)

viztask.schedule( SpinHeadLeft() )

#***********************************************************
#Adding a world
#***********************************************************
room = viz.add('gallery.ive') # Load
room.scale(1,1,1)  # scale actual
room.translate(0,0,0) ## position in the world