Animating 3D Graphics - Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials - page 140

2. Ensure that just the geometry , skeleton , and exportgroup checkboxes are

ticked in the group labeled Enable export of .

3. You can now click on the Export! button to write out the GEO, MTL, and

GROUP files for the model. Two new file types will also be exported, the
SKEL and SKIN files, which as you can probably guess represent the skeleton
and skin information for the model.

The files exported in these steps are necessary in order to animate the model, but
they don't actually contain any animation data as such. Here's how we get hold of
the data that will describe how the model is actually animated:

1. Go back to the exporter plugin window and click on the button to the right

of the Export Type combobox. A pop-up menu should appear from which
you should select the anim option.

2. The checkboxes in the Enable export of section should change so that only

the animation checkbox is ticked.

3. In the Export Flags section, the multianim checkbox can be selected if you

have several animations in the scene to export. Note that each animation
should be for the same 3D model.

4. The Anim Range Type option can take one of three possible values. The

default is Visible Range , which will export only the range of frames that
are currently visible on the animation track bar in the modeling package.
The next option is Individual Anim Range , which will only export
animation data between the first and last key frame of each animation.
The final option, Full Range , is only available in Maya. It will export the
entire animation regardless of whether a range of frames has been set on
the animation track bar or not.