I want to develop my own engine and 3d asset format. I wonder is there any open source

real time character animation library available? I need it to have IK and

calculating all that skin weights at the lowest level etc

Thanks

Jack

an old friend of mine from high school did Animadead a while back, it doesn't have IK solvers (which are a project on their own) but I'm sure you could easily incorporate an existing IK solving library along with it into your project.

http://animadead.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, I'll look into that.