That’s right boys and girls, today I got Marv to animate. (Well, Monday).

Horaaah.

I am very proud of this because it was really hard to figure out, and some parts I still don’t fully understand, but I’m going to explain how I did it here and maybe someone one day will read it and think I’m amazing. Which they are right now. Yes I’m talking about you. The reader.

The first thing I had to get to work was, working off of yesterday’s progress, getting the indices and weights for the bones into the shader. This was done by adding a few more vertex attribute arrays to the shader and then sending them in where the shader is loaded:

InitFBXSceneResources()

// bind arrays needed for animation / normals / texturing etc
 glEnableVertexAttribArray(0); // pos
 glEnableVertexAttribArray(1); // normal
 glEnableVertexAttribArray(2); // tangent
 glEnableVertexAttribArray(3); // binormal
 glEnableVertexAttribArray(4); // indices for bones
 glEnableVertexAttribArray(5); // weights for bones
 glEnableVertexAttribArray(6); // uv
 glVertexAttribPointer(0, 4, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(FBXVertex), (char*)FBXVertex::PositionOffset);
 glVertexAttribPointer(1, 4, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(FBXVertex), (char*)FBXVertex::NormalOffset);
 glVertexAttribPointer(2, 4, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(FBXVertex), (char*)FBXVertex::TangentOffset);
 glVertexAttribPointer(3, 4, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(FBXVertex), (char*)FBXVertex::BiNormalOffset);
 glVertexAttribPointer(4, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(FBXVertex), (char*)FBXVertex::IndicesOffset);
 glVertexAttribPointer(5, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(FBXVertex), (char*)FBXVertex::WeightsOffset);
 glVertexAttribPointer(6, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(FBXVertex), (char*)FBXVertex::UVOffset);

Init()

// load shader
 const char* aszInputs[] = {
 "Position",
 "Normal",
 "Tangent",
 "BiNormal",
 "Indices",
 "Weights",
 "UV",
 };
const char* aszOutputs[] = {
 "outColour"
 };
// load shader
 g_ShaderID = LoadShader(
 7, aszInputs, 
 1, aszOutputs,
 "./shaders/animation_vertex.glsl",
 "./shaders/normalmap_pixel.glsl"
 );

Below is an image showing the structure of the FBX model and the animation part of it.