Tempust85 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I can independently confirm that they're working on getting Carcass source released. They're asking Rich if he still has Carcass source. I already implemented this like 6mo ago. Just saying. True, but we could port over the remaining code. Would be useful for the JKA part of JK:Enhanced due to the many arms. Link to comment
eezstreet Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 All of the code for it is in the SDK. Tempust85 likes this Link to comment
Tempust85 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Well from the looks of it, I was wrong. SoF2 doesn't allow multiple arm models, though their viewmodel setup (bolting left arm + right arm to the weapon) is a step in the right direction for that. Link to comment
RichW Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 What's wrong with using Noesis exactly? Can Rich not fix the G2 export issues?I didn't actually know there were any until last week. I've fixed quite a bit of stuff DT85 has told me about over the weekend, so I think it's in a good state now. He mentioned he's gonna be working on a Noesis export tutorial, which is excellent. So, about the compression, I'm not sure what carcass was doing. But they kinda got it wrong in the format - the way the engine expects transforms, you're ending up with parent-local matrices which are in base/bind-local space. Bind-local matrices in parent-local space would've been much more efficient for small deltas, where lots of bones would've ended up being stored as identity because they don't animate away from the bind pose when in parent-local space. Lots of stuff moves as a result of hierarchy when you apply the bind-local transform before the parent-local one. Beyond that, all Noesis does is quantize the bones like so: RichMat43 *rMat = (RichMat43 *)mat; RichQuat rQuat = rMat->GetTranspose().ToQuat(); comp[0] = (unsigned short)((rQuat[3]+2.0f)*16383.0f); comp[1] = (unsigned short)((rQuat[0]+2.0f)*16383.0f); comp[2] = (unsigned short)((rQuat[1]+2.0f)*16383.0f); comp[3] = (unsigned short)((rQuat[2]+2.0f)*16383.0f); comp[4] = (unsigned short)((mat->o[0]+512.0f)*64.0f); comp[5] = (unsigned short)((mat->o[1]+512.0f)*64.0f); comp[6] = (unsigned short)((mat->o[2]+512.0f)*64.0f); As you'll notice, the quaternion range is also unnecessarily limiting precision, another legacy limitation of the format. Ghoul2 animation compression could've easily been a lot better with no drawbacks, but I guess no one noticed during development, myself included. After Noesis quantizes the rotations+translations, it uses a simple hash to build up a list of unique q+t pairs. It will only consider something a match if it fits exactly. If I had to venture a guess, that might be where carcass goes wrong, using a looser comparison method and ending up with matches that don't quite match. Either that or the quantization is just wrong. Archangel35757 and Tempust85 like this Link to comment
Archangel35757 Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 So I got an email response from Ste at RavenSoftware: ----message----From:<removed>To:<removed>Cc:<removed>Sent: Thu, Sep 4, 2014 9:55 AM CDTSubject: RE: CARCASS.exe bug issue... and new dotXSI 3.0 exporter I left a CMD session searching our Y (archive) drive all night piped to a file for carcass*.*, but the source isn't there. ( even though there's a lot of old source code around that era ). Charlie says all the old VSS archives are on a different server but right now that machine isn't responding properly. He's taking a look. This hasn't been forgotten. -Ste. Tempust85 likes this Link to comment
Tempust85 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 (edited) Awesome, I'm glad they are taking the time for us as I'm sure they are busy. Might be in with the SoF2 stuff since that game came first. EDIT: Did find this in JK2/JKA's carcass.exe when viewing in notepad++: C:\projects\Tools\Carcass\Release\carcass.pdb and this in SoF2's carcass: C:\Source\Tools\Carcass\Release\carcass.pdb Edited September 4, 2014 by DT85 Link to comment
Solution Archangel35757 Posted September 25, 2014 Author Solution Share Posted September 25, 2014 O.B.E. http://jkhub.org/files/file/2074-carcass/ Tempust85 likes this Link to comment
Tempust85 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Dat bone jitter fix. Link to comment
ensiform Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 GJ Raven. Tempust85, eezstreet and Archangel35757 like this Link to comment
minilogoguy18 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Very cool that they fixed it, just wish still that the source was out to maybe add the other crosswalk formats to it. As a softimage user I wont complain though, would just like to see more options for others who may be using a program outside of the 3 autodesk ones. Link to comment
Tempust85 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Here's a good example of bone jitter that will no longer be present: http://youtu.be/887SbsSnW8o Check out 0:28 for the finger jitter when Kyle slams his lightsaber on the bar bench. Archangel35757 and Circa like this Link to comment
Omicron Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Here's a good example of bone jitter that will no longer be present: Check out 0:28 for the finger jitter when Kyle slams his lightsaber on the bar bench.I don't see anything... Link to comment
Archangel35757 Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 @@Omicron -- His fingers jitter like he has Parkinson's disease. Omicron and Tempust85 like this Link to comment
Omicron Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 @@Omicron -- His fingers jitter like he has Parkinson's disease.Only very slightly form what I see; I wouldn't ever notice it ingame Link to comment
Circa Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Only very slightly form what I see; I wouldn't ever notice it ingameThat's mostly because it's a very short cut. If it held that shot longer, you'd notice, no doubt. Link to comment
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