Blender shape keys and MorphTargetManager

[jdurrant]

I'm using the preview release of Babylon (3.0. alpha) and the 5.3.-1 exporter in Blender. The Blender scene includes shape keys attached to a mesh called "Cloth":

When I export to a babylon file, this information appears to be saved correctly. There is a "MorphTargetManager" entry in the file JSON that looks like this:

"MorphTargetManager": {
    "id": "Cloth",
    "targets": [
        {
            "name": "Draped",
            "position": [lots of numbers...],
            "influence": 0
        },
        {
            "name": "testtest",
            "position": [lots of numbers...],
            "influence": 0
        }
    ]
}

I then load the babylon file with BABYLON in the browser, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to access this saved MorphTargetManager.

Here are some things I tried:

BABYLON.scene.morphTargetManagers; ==> []

BABYLON.scene.getMorphTargetManagerById("Cloth"); ==> null

BABYLON.scene.getMorphTargetManagerById(0); ==> null

(After setting the "Cloth" mesh to clothMesh...)

clothMesh.morphTargetManager; ==> undefined (but present when I inspect the mesh object...)

I feel like all the parts are there, I just can't figure out how to access the MorphTargetManager that I think should be present when I import the babylon file. Any help you can offer would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

[JCPalmer]

Do not really know how to access them, but would suggest calling through mesh.

This is implemented wrong.  I am placing this inside of a meshes tags.  A morphTargetmanager is a high level thing within the JSON file, and then leashed up to a mesh.  This is very different from my implementation of shapekeys.  The export design will need to  change.  Thanks for testing.

[jdurrant]

Thanks for your help, JCPalmer. Just to clarify, you mean I should save the different shape keys as separate meshes (in blender) and then programmatically create a morphTargetManager? Can you provide a code outline?

Also, would you mind pointing me in the direction of your implementation of shapekeys? It seems the one I'm using now isn't ready for prime time. Thanks.

[JCPalmer]

No, you should not need to anything differently to the blend.  I was speaking of the JSON organization.  My implementation though farther along in the morph area is an completely different animation system, wiith its own workflow & dynamic deployment using computer generated Javascript. 

It is undergoing a bunch of changes that I am just finalizing to allow geometry & texture read ahead.  I am think to be done around June 1st.  Will be beginning network testing of a scene this week.  Will post on demos section as completed.  Will not get to changing anything for the JSON implementation till this milestone is achieved, (plus I do not know what to do yet).

[JCPalmer]

Ok, @jdurrantwith my scene posted on demos, I changed the .JSON exporter to deal with morph targets properly.  I ran the flying carpet test scene through the sandbox.  I know morph targets is now getting parsed, since I had a spelling of a property wrong, and it failed at first.

I PR'ed but with Deltakosh on vacation, you could just pull the zip file from my repo.

[voggu kalyan]

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a small doubt

how to get morph targets from shape keys.

i had made a blender human model and i used shape keys for it .when i exported i didn't get the vertices , but i got the array. can you help me.

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