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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Andreas,<br>
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This does not directly answer your question.<br>
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In character animation the skeleton created during the rigging
process is never rendered. It is a collection of points in space
that the skin is anchored to. During development and animation,
the skeleton may be rendered by the animation and/or rigging tool;
but geometry is never created for it. Of course an author may
choose to create a mesh for the skeleton, in which case it would
be rendered as regular geometry.<br>
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Leonard Daly<br>
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<pre wrap="">In my first attempt to improve the implemention of HAnim nodes and
fields in x3dom, most (all?) shapes making up the Nancy humanoid from
Nancy, native tags, were rendered multiple times, on top of each
other.
The reason turned out to be the USE references in the joints and
segments field of Humanoid.
Since a USE node places another instance of a DEF node into the scene
graph, all the Shapes in the joint and segment nodes were duplicated.
So my question is if only the nodes in the skeleton field should be
rendered while the USE references in the joints and segments fields
should not be rendered and are provided exclusively for other purposes
(like kinematics) ? I could not quite answer that question from the
standard language.
-Andreas
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<font size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant<br>
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Past Chair<br>
President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i>
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