Character

from panda3d.core import Character
class Character

Bases: PartBundleNode

An animated character, with skeleton-morph animation and either soft- skinned or hard-skinned vertices.

Inheritance diagram

Inheritance diagram of Character

__init__(*args, **kwargs)
clearLodAnimation()

C++ Interface: clear_lod_animation(const Character self)

/**

  • Undoes the effect of a recent call to set_lod_animation(). Henceforth, the

  • character will animate every frame, regardless of its distance from the

  • camera.

*/

clear_lod_animation()

C++ Interface: clear_lod_animation(const Character self)

/**

  • Undoes the effect of a recent call to set_lod_animation(). Henceforth, the

  • character will animate every frame, regardless of its distance from the

  • camera.

*/

findJoint()

C++ Interface: find_joint(Character self, str name)

/**

  • Returns a pointer to the joint with the given name, if there is such a

  • joint, or NULL if there is no such joint. This will not return a pointer

  • to a slider.

*/

findSlider()

C++ Interface: find_slider(Character self, str name)

/**

  • Returns a pointer to the slider with the given name, if there is such a

  • slider, or NULL if there is no such slider. This will not return a pointer

  • to a joint.

*/

find_joint()

C++ Interface: find_joint(Character self, str name)

/**

  • Returns a pointer to the joint with the given name, if there is such a

  • joint, or NULL if there is no such joint. This will not return a pointer

  • to a slider.

*/

find_slider()

C++ Interface: find_slider(Character self, str name)

/**

  • Returns a pointer to the slider with the given name, if there is such a

  • slider, or NULL if there is no such slider. This will not return a pointer

  • to a joint.

*/

forceUpdate()

C++ Interface: force_update(const Character self)

/**

  • Recalculates the character even if we think it doesn’t need it.

*/

force_update()

C++ Interface: force_update(const Character self)

/**

  • Recalculates the character even if we think it doesn’t need it.

*/

getBundle()

C++ Interface: get_bundle(Character self, int i)

/**

*/

getClassType()

C++ Interface: get_class_type()

get_bundle()

C++ Interface: get_bundle(Character self, int i)

/**

*/

get_class_type()

C++ Interface: get_class_type()

mergeBundles()

C++ Interface: merge_bundles(const Character self, PartBundleHandle old_bundle_handle, PartBundleHandle other_bundle_handle)

/**

  • Merges old_bundle_handle->get_bundle() with new_bundle. old_bundle_handle

  • must be one of the PartBundleHandle within this node. At the end of this

  • call, the bundle pointer within the old_bundle_handle will be replaced with

  • that within the new_bundle_handle pointer, and all geometry within this

  • node will be updated to reference new_bundle.

  • Normally, this is called when the two bundles have the same, or nearly the

  • same, hierarchies. In this case, new_bundle will simply be assigned over

  • the old_bundle position. However, if any joints are present in one bundle

  • or the other, new_bundle will be modified to contain the union of all

  • joints.

  • The geometry below this node is also updated to reference new_bundle,

  • instead of the original old_bundle.

  • This method is intended to unify two different models that share a common

  • skeleton, for instance, different LOD’s of the same model.

*/

merge_bundles()

C++ Interface: merge_bundles(const Character self, PartBundleHandle old_bundle_handle, PartBundleHandle other_bundle_handle)

/**

  • Merges old_bundle_handle->get_bundle() with new_bundle. old_bundle_handle

  • must be one of the PartBundleHandle within this node. At the end of this

  • call, the bundle pointer within the old_bundle_handle will be replaced with

  • that within the new_bundle_handle pointer, and all geometry within this

  • node will be updated to reference new_bundle.

  • Normally, this is called when the two bundles have the same, or nearly the

  • same, hierarchies. In this case, new_bundle will simply be assigned over

  • the old_bundle position. However, if any joints are present in one bundle

  • or the other, new_bundle will be modified to contain the union of all

  • joints.

  • The geometry below this node is also updated to reference new_bundle,

  • instead of the original old_bundle.

  • This method is intended to unify two different models that share a common

  • skeleton, for instance, different LOD’s of the same model.

*/

setLodAnimation()

C++ Interface: set_lod_animation(const Character self, const LPoint3f center, float far_distance, float near_distance, float delay_factor)

/**

  • Activates a special mode in which the character animates less frequently as

  • it gets further from the camera. This is intended as a simple optimization

  • to minimize the effort of computing animation for lots of characters that

  • may not necessarily be very important to animate every frame.

  • If the character is closer to the camera than near_distance, then it is

  • animated its normal rate, every frame. If the character is exactly

  • far_distance away, it is animated only every delay_factor seconds (which

  • should be a number greater than 0). If the character is between

  • near_distance and far_distance, its animation rate is linearly interpolated

  • according to its distance between the two. The interpolation function

  • continues beyond far_distance, so that the character is animated

  • increasingly less frequently as it gets farther away.

  • The distance calculations are made from center, which is a fixed point

  • relative to the character node, to the camera’s lod center or cull center

  • node (or to the camera node itself).

  • If multiple cameras are viewing the character in any given frame, the

  • closest one counts.

*/

set_lod_animation()

C++ Interface: set_lod_animation(const Character self, const LPoint3f center, float far_distance, float near_distance, float delay_factor)

/**

  • Activates a special mode in which the character animates less frequently as

  • it gets further from the camera. This is intended as a simple optimization

  • to minimize the effort of computing animation for lots of characters that

  • may not necessarily be very important to animate every frame.

  • If the character is closer to the camera than near_distance, then it is

  • animated its normal rate, every frame. If the character is exactly

  • far_distance away, it is animated only every delay_factor seconds (which

  • should be a number greater than 0). If the character is between

  • near_distance and far_distance, its animation rate is linearly interpolated

  • according to its distance between the two. The interpolation function

  • continues beyond far_distance, so that the character is animated

  • increasingly less frequently as it gets farther away.

  • The distance calculations are made from center, which is a fixed point

  • relative to the character node, to the camera’s lod center or cull center

  • node (or to the camera node itself).

  • If multiple cameras are viewing the character in any given frame, the

  • closest one counts.

*/

update()

C++ Interface: update(const Character self)

/**

  • Recalculates the Character’s joints and vertices for the current frame.

  • Normally this is performed automatically during the render and need not be

  • called explicitly.

*/

updateToNow()

C++ Interface: update_to_now(const Character self)

/**

  • Advances the character’s frame to the current time, and then calls

  • update(). This can be used by show code to force an update of the

  • character’s position to the current frame, regardless of whether the

  • character is currently onscreen and animating.

  • @deprecated Call update() instead.

*/

update_to_now()

C++ Interface: update_to_now(const Character self)

/**

  • Advances the character’s frame to the current time, and then calls

  • update(). This can be used by show code to force an update of the

  • character’s position to the current frame, regardless of whether the

  • character is currently onscreen and animating.

  • @deprecated Call update() instead.

*/

writePartValues()

C++ Interface: write_part_values(Character self, ostream out)

/**

  • Writes a list of the Character’s joints and sliders, along with each

  • current position, in their hierchical structure, to the indicated output

  • stream.

*/

writeParts()

C++ Interface: write_parts(Character self, ostream out)

/**

  • Writes a list of the Character’s joints and sliders, in their hierchical

  • structure, to the indicated output stream.

*/

write_part_values()

C++ Interface: write_part_values(Character self, ostream out)

/**

  • Writes a list of the Character’s joints and sliders, along with each

  • current position, in their hierchical structure, to the indicated output

  • stream.

*/

write_parts()

C++ Interface: write_parts(Character self, ostream out)

/**

  • Writes a list of the Character’s joints and sliders, in their hierchical

  • structure, to the indicated output stream.

*/