Eular rotation?

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by DarkZoulz January 17, 2005 06:05 AM

1 comment, last by DarkZoulz 19 years, 3 months ago

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January 17, 2005 06:05 AM

Hello, We are attempting to export animations from maya, but the data seems to be exported using eular angles instead of quaternions. Is there some way around this? DirectX Animation controller uses quats when calculating animations?

Palle

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January 17, 2005 06:50 AM

I don't know much about exporting objects from Maya, but one way to to deal with the problem would be to convert the Euler angles to a Quaternion as explained in the link below.

http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/geometry/rotations/conversions/eulerToQuaternion/

Hope that helps.

DarkZoulz

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January 17, 2005 08:39 AM

As the animation controller does the actual calculating, I can't actually do anything about it. Unless I write my own animation controller. But time is of the essence.