If there's no export script, or the export script has no frame information,
animation data will be collected by running through blender frames 1 to the
current frame (inclusive). Each frame will be exported as a single frame
rather than as members of a frame group.
Not sure if it actually works as the clients don't render the result
properly (can't see anything where the model should be), but the output
model does import back into blender properly.
Since qf does linear interpolation of verts, this seems to be reasonable.
Certaintly better than the rose-thorns I got because I haven't figured out
how to kick the auto-clamp.
Note that this is the data block that holds the list of actual shape-keys,
rather than the shape-keys themselves. I'm not sure what it's correct name
is (it's just "Key" in RNA).
I really dislike this method of setting the name, but the use of "Key" as
the datablock name is actually hard-coded into blender's C code :/
Without fakeuser set, blender will toss out the actions on save and reload.
Converting to an nla strip might take care of that, but I haven't figured
out how to do that yet, so avoid any nasty surprised for the user.
Eye position, auto rotation, sync type and particle effects can now all be
edited in blender: both import and export do the right thing. The settings
can be found in the "QF MDL" panel of the "Object" tab of the properties
view.
The params are eye position, flags and synctype. Provision is made for
reading them from a text block on export, but nothing is done other than
retrieving the text block.
Blender must have an active shape key before shape key animation will work.
This fixes the models being locked to the first frame until a shape key is
selected via the UI.
I /did/ see the warning about vertex index 0 in the obj importer script,
but I didn't take it seriously enough. This fixes both the twisted texture
on a couple of faces, and the truly mangled tris when exporting (using
invisibl.mdl for testing).
Bill Currie
khreathor