Hi, I've been trying Quake3 MD3 animation for the past 2 days and I'm having really bad problems with the interpolation of the tags. A tag has a 3x3 rotation matrix which i convert to quaternions, do my SLERP and back to a matrix. But as yoy may know, the coordnate system in Q3 is Y on the positive Z and Z being positive Y. No matter what I try, i can't seem to make the rotations of the models happen in the right axis. Like my players head spins around the Y axis when it should be spinning on the Z. I tried swapping the Y-Z axis in the 3x3 TAG matrix before converting to quaternions but it just messes up the animation (it skews and flattens the model), and even tried swapping YZ on the final matrix but this sort of cancels out all the translations of the individual models (head, torso, legs). I cant even find any DirectX samples of MD3 loading and rendering. Can someine please help... Thanks, MeshMan

I've already swapped the YZ of the vertices when I load in the data to conform with my DirectX coordinate system.

I just can't figure out how to correct this rotation matrix into the correct coordinate system I need it in.

Still stuck...

To convert a right handed matrix or vector to left handed or vice versa, you have to multiply your vector or matrix by this matrix:

1 0 0 0
0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0
0 0 0 1

If it does not work in the first try A x B try B x A. But you need 4x4 matrices. Extend your 3x3 matrix via transpose or invert.

I've managed to get round it by converting the matrices to D3D style matrices as I was already doing, then when I convert them matrices to quaternions, i just swap the Y/Z on the quaternions and my output is all perfect.

Screenies here:

www.meshsoft.net/dragon.jpg
www.meshsoft.net/md3.jpg

:)