hi raft,

I am back again  .  The model that I succeeded in loading is a human model.  When the model is loaded with default human-skin-texture, it was all fine.  But when I tried to use separate textures for shirt and pants, whichever texture that I apply last, covers the complete the model. 
Simple solution could be to go back to our artist and ask for the single texture file that includes all: skin, shirt and pants.  But my app requires that the end user should be able to change dresses (shirt, pant etc) on the fly.  So I think having separate texture files is the way to go.  But I am struck with the above problem.

Can you please throw some light or point me to some docs on the texture mapping techniques to be used in JPCT/Bones?

Thanks,
Babu

Hi raft,

Finally, I was able to load the model given by my artist.  Thanks a lot for your guidance and support in my first baby step .
Even my model loaded upside down; but I could use the -rotation parameter to get it loaded properly.

However, I am facing the same problem as pages, i.e. the model is not appearing in the center of the screen, but moved to the left edge of the screen.  I am using the same code that is used in the Ninja demo.  I just changed the resource names for the model and the texture.  Based on your advice to pages, I scanned through the code to see the assignment of a camera angle that is greater than 0.  I couldn't see any such code in NinjaDemoActivity.  But I found that the default value of the camera angle was "PI" as initialized in the cameraorbitor class.  I even changed that to 0.  But I couldn't succeed in getting my model to the center.

Am I missing something here?  I'll anyway continue to analyze this by putting more log messages into the app.

Thanks a lot...

this happens because there is no animation in your skeleton file. tell your artist export at least one animation.

Hi raft,
I got the .xml files with a simple animation.  Now I could see that the group is also loaded from the log message below.

Skeleton created out of jME OGRE skeleton, 69 joints
Created skeleton animation clip: leg_test
Loaded ogre file: body_new/body.mesh.xml, scale: 1, rotation: null
   1 sub objects, 1 skin animation(s), 0 pose animation(s)

But after that I get this strange exception.

Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Eng-Repo/Reference/Graphics/Skeletal-Animation/Bones/scripts/-out (No such file or directory)
   at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
   at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
   at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:66)
   at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:70)
   at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:161)
   at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1010)
   at com.jmex.model.ogrexml.OgreLoader.loadModel(OgreLoader.java:225)
   at com.jmex.model.ogrexml.OgreLoader.loadModel(OgreLoader.java:177)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.loadGroup(JMEOgreImporter.java:91)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.loadGroup(JMEOgreImporter.java:81)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.run(JMEOgreImporter.java:58)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.main(JMEOgreImporter.java:147)

I sense that things can't get more basic than this.   .  But I am clueless as to what's going wrong.  I used the following command in the command prompt.
bash jmeOgre2Bones.sh -in body_new/body.mesh.xml -out fm.group.bones

hi raft,
The previous exception doesn't come anymore.  Thanks

However, I got the following exception.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No controller found in OgreEntityNode. Means there is no skeleton or pose animation!
   at raft.jpct.bones.BonesImporter.importOgre(BonesImporter.java:131)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.loadGroup(JMEOgreImporter.java:93)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.loadGroup(JMEOgreImporter.java:81)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.run(JMEOgreImporter.java:58)
   at raft.jpct.bones.util.JMEOgreImporter.main(JMEOgreImporter.java:147)

Is there something wrong with the .xml file?  Should I go back to our artist?

Also I got several of the following warnings.

Apr 4, 2011 8:20:56 AM com.jmex.model.ogrexml.anim.SkeletonLoader loadSkeleton
WARNING: Rotation axis not normalized

Sorry for troubling you with lot of basic stuff 

raft, thanks a lot for your guidance.  I'll try that out and get back to you.