Reedbeta, on 28 June 2012 - 08:02 AM, said:

So basically, the matrix palette should include each bone's transposed (inverse) matrix of the bind pose multiplied with the world matrix for the current pose?

EDIT: This is now what is does:

*When the model is first loaded:
*The bind pose is stored in the combined transformation matrix (used to position and visualize the bones)
*The bind pose is also stored in a separate bind pose matrix
*The bind pose matrix is inverted and stored in the inverse bind pose matrix
*The inverse bind pose matrix is multiplied by the combined transformation matrix and stored in the skinning matrix
*Each frame:
*If the bone position is updated (combined transformation matrix changes):
*Inverse bind pose matrix is multiplied by the new combined transformation matrix and stored in the skinning matrix


Now when the model is first loaded, it is displayed correctly (probably because the combined transformation matrix is the same as the bind pose matrix) but whenever a bone position changes, the vertices that go with it start going all over the place.

This is what is looks like before bones are moved:


and after:


EDIT AGAIN:
This only seems to be happening when the rotation changes. When the bone's position is the only thing that changes, the vertices move correctly.

Reedbeta, on 27 June 2012 - 05:48 PM, said:

I have checked, and all the bone matrices are correct. Each one is used to draw the bones on the screen, and each drawn bone is drawn correctly, including the ones that should be affecting the vertices that I am currently testing with. The bones are drawn like so:

1: disable vertex blending
2: set world matrix to the current bone's combined transformation matrix
3: draw a sphere
4: set world matrix back
5: extract position vectors from current bone and parent bone (boneMatrix(3,0), boneMatrix(3,1), boneMatrix(3,2)) and (parentBoneMatrix(3,0), parentBoneMatrix(3,1), parentBoneMatrix(3,2))
6: draw linestrip with these 2 vectors
7: re-enable vertex blending


It looks to me like D3D is offsetting the vertex position by the position in the matrix; so if the bone matrix has a position vector with a y value of 10 and the vertex has a y value of 5, the vertex ends up at 15. Should the matrices used for blending be relative to the bone's default position (combinedMatrix - defaultCombinedMatrix) or should they just be the raw combined matrices of the bones (the same ones used to draw the bones)?