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When loading an animation, how can I get at the reference pose?
I have a subclass of AssetPostprocessor in which I do various operations on incoming animations (e.g., motion extraction, move-to-origin, etc.) It all works great. I am now tackling mirroring, so I can mirror an incoming animation. In order to do this, I need to have access to the reference pose associated with the model (basically I need a symmetric pose). I load animations as separate files. So, for example, if i am loading fred@jumpLeft, I want to be able to get at the transforms associated with fred. Is there an easy way to do that in the context of AssetPostProcessor?
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Answer by Cyclops · Feb 27, 2010 at 01:44 AM
This won't get the reference pose, but might help you in mirroring:
Answer by getluky · Aug 08, 2011 at 05:58 PM
If there is, I didn't find it. I ended up just instantiating the model in a scene, removing all animation clips from it to force it into the bind pose, and then running a custom script to extract bone positions and write that to a configuration file that stores bone name, local euler angles, and local position recursively. Then my own mirroring script allows the user to select a bind pose configuration file and uses that for reference when mirroring animations. It only has to be done once per model though.