OpenSceneGraph 3.0

Time for action—creating and driving a character system

Now we are going to load and play animations for an existing OSG character: bignathan. This was created by the principal author of osgAnimation, and contains a few comic animations. The main work here is to obtain the animation manager from the root node, list all available animations, and play a certain animation within it.

1. Include the necessary headers:

   #include <osgAnimation/BasicAnimationManager>
   #include <osgDB/ReadFile>
   #include <osgViewer/Viewer>
   #include <iostream>
   

2. We would like to configure two arguments for the application. The argument --animation specifies a name string that will be played in the application, and --listall lists all available animations on the console:

   osg::ArgumentParser ...