Hello! Mabye this is not the right place for this question.... Suppose we have a keyframe struct

typedef struct _kf
{
DWORD Time;
D3DMATRIX matTransformation;
} sKeyFrame;

Now suppose i've an array of this struct, defined in this mode (i remember that the D3DXMATRIX constructor takes also a float array...)

sKeyFrame Keyframes[4] = 
{
	// Keyframe 1, 0ms
	{   0, 1.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f, 1.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f, 0.000000f, 1.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f, 1.000000f },
	// Keyframe 2, 40ms
	{  400, 0.000796f, 1.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	-1.000000f, 0.000796f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f, 0.000000f, 1.000000f, 0.000000f,
	50.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f, 1.000000f },
	// Keyframe 3, 80ms
	{  800, -0.999999f,  0.001593f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	-0.001593f, -0.999999f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f,  0.000000f, 1.000000f, 0.000000f,
	25.000000f, 25.000000f, 0.000000f, 1.000000f },
	// Keyframe 4, 120ms
	{ 1200, 1.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f, 1.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f, 0.000000f, 1.000000f, 0.000000f,
	0.000000f, 0.000000f, 0.000000f, 1.000000f }
};

I've read by the jim adam's book about animation in DirectX that for animate the mesh with these keyframes in cyclical mode, we must do...

 static DWORD StartTime = timeGetTime();
DWORD Time = timeGetTime() - StartTime;
DWORD KeyFrame = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
if ( Time >= Keyframes.Time )
KeyFrame = i;
}
DWORD Keyframe2 = (KeyFrame==3) ? KeyFrame : KeyFrame + 1;
DWORD TimeDiff = Keyframes[Keyframe2].Time -
Keyframes[KeyFrame].Time;
if(!TimeDiff)
TimeDiff=1;
float Scalar = (float)(Time - Keyframes[KeyFrame].Time) / (float)TimeDiff;
D3DXMATRIX matInt = D3DXMATRIX(Keyframes[Keyframe2].matTransformation) -
D3DXMATRIX(Keyframes[KeyFrame].matTransformation);
matInt *= Scalar;

matInt += D3DXMATRIX(Keyframes[KeyFrame].matTransformation);

Now there are some things that i've not understood (also i've it's needed the past??? :D) Why DWORD Keyframe2 = (KeyFrame==3) ? KeyFrame : KeyFrame + 1? I think that i should set KeyFrame2 to 0, to restart animation.... What is the scalar value? Why i have to substract the two matrices to have the matInt? Why i've to mul matrix for the scalar value? why i've also to add matrix with the matTransformation of first keyframe? And in all, when the animation it's complete, it does not continue, it stops.. Thank you!

Mabye it's the wrong section?

Quote:
Why DWORD Keyframe2 = (KeyFrame==3) ? KeyFrame : KeyFrame + 1? I think that i should set KeyFrame2 to 0, to restart animation....

That line doesn't restart the animation. It simply set KeyFrame2 to a value greater or equals than KeyFrame and less than 4. If you want to restart the animation you have to "restart" the timer when it reaches the last keyframe.

In code:
DWORD Time = (timeGetTime() - StartTime) % Keyframes[3].Time;

Quote:
float Scalar = (float)(Time - Keyframes[KeyFrame].Time) / (float)TimeDiff;

D3DXMATRIX matInt = D3DXMATRIX(Keyframes[Keyframe2].matTransformation) -

D3DXMATRIX(Keyframes[KeyFrame].matTransformation);

matInt *= Scalar;

That code linearly interpolate the matrix of the two keyframes.

I think is useless to copy some code from a book if you doesn't understand it. I suggest to learn the basics before trying to do harder things like skeletal animation.

DWORD Time = (timeGetTime() - StartTime) % Keyframes[3].Time;

thanks for the answer but i've not understand how it can restart by add the mod with time of third keyframe...

Now it's all ok, thank you!