I have some problems with skinning. So, here are the steps i have done to perform skinning.

Export:
- When exported, all vertices are already in the reference pose.
- All bone transformations are absolute transformation. (Not relative to parent)
- bone offset matrix = inverse (bone transform matrix)
- bone matrix = bone matrix * inverse (parent bone matrix)

CPU:
- bone.transformMatrix = bone matrix (as exported)
- Loop through each bone
bone.absoluteMatrix = bone.transformMatrix * parentBone.absoluteMatrix

- Send bone.absoluteMatrix as the bone matrix to the GPU
- Send bone.offsetMatrix (as exported) as the bone offset matrix to the GPU

GPU:
for each vertex
vec4 tempVertex = [0, 0, 0, 0]

for each bone influencing this vertex
boneMatrix = boneMatrix[this bone] * boneOffsetMatrix[this bone]
tempVertex += (vertex * boneMatrix) * weight[this bone on this vertex]

tempVertex /= total weight

final vertex position = projection Matrix * view matrix * world matrix * tempVertex

So, the skinned mesh is not being rendered correctly and i am not being able to spot the problem but i know the problem comes from the matrices. The weights and bone influences are all right. Any1 can help please?

I might be completely off, but these are things that seem dubious to me:

1. Is it necessary to multiply bone matrix with bone offset matrix? I would probably simply multiply with offset matrix assuming that before passing to glsl it is already multiplied with parent offset matrix (that is in turn multiplied with its parent offset matrix and so on).

2. Is that the sum of aVertexWeights 0 to 1 guaranteed to be 1.0? If not, maybe divide finalVertex with sum of aVertexWeights.

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