get bone vertices

How to get all vertices assigned to a bone?

I am afraid it is not possible

Check out ent_bonename: http://www.conitec.net/beta/aent_bonename.htm

I looked at this function. But I do not know how to use it to get all bones controlling a vertex. I suppose if I look for it's parents/children, I will get more vertices than those assigned to a single bone.

Maybe you can get total amount of vertices of the model (ent_status), then cycle through all of them via 'for' loop with use of 'ent_bonename' to get the name of the bones and save all results? Just a quick idea.

Best regards!

ups, true.

How to make this work when a vertex is assigned to more than one bone?


What you mean? You mean you previous answer is true and it is not possible?

I meant that I did not remember ent_bonename. But it returns a single bone by vertex, so it seems it is not possible at the end, but my word is in question

You asked about ONE bone, and you got solution for that.

As for multiple bones, I don't think that will be possible, since Acknex's tools don't support such things out of the box (f.e. in MED it's not possible to rig model assigning vertices to several bones). For your solution, saving stuff by hand might be the only way.

Greets

Yeah, multiple bones will get difficult. You could file_load the mdl, then look at the bytes if you really want to do this by script but this probably won't be done in an hour, probably not even a day.