It doesn't load. Most of the times it reads all the bones and crashes before reading the mesh. This latest attempt is crashing just before reading the "bone hierarchies"(whatever that means). I could write a simple loader, provided he created the addBone(SimpleVector p1, SimpleVector p2) method for which I asked a year go (not that he has to comply, of course!). Or the source code of his loader, but that would probably be tough. Anyway, the command prompt screen of the latest, but not most succesful (although that's really arbitrary at this point) attempt:

Would you be kind enough to get a rigged model from me and send me an OgreXML file that works with your loader? PLEASE? I've tried everything, man. I got a Max 9 exporter, and it doesn't work with complex skeletons. I got a Maya Ogre binary exporter, then used the Ogre tools to get the XML and that didn't work. And I tried optimizing the meshes with OgreCommandLineTools. I used 5 different human models with similarly complex bone structures. All of them crash. PLEASE either convert one for me or send me a human model fully rigged that works with your loader.

By the way, just to clear things up: the exporters all work fine. What always crashes is your loader. And almost always it happens just after all the bones are read and as it's reading the very first mesh.

Or might I suggest a loadOgreXML(Object3D, InputStream, float)? That would help a lot in its own right.

Sure thing. Thanks in advance.

    protected void draw() {
bow.rotateX(rotateX);
bow.rotateZ(rotateZ);
rotateX = 0;
rotateZ = 0;
buffer.clear();

scene.setVisibility(true);
arrow.setVisibility(false);
bow.setVisibility(false);

theWorld.renderScene(buffer);
theWorld.draw(buffer);
// buffer.update();

Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) buffer.getGraphics();
java.awt.image.BufferedImage map = thePanther.getCurrentMap();
Polygon current = thePanther.getCurrent();
g2.setPaint(new TexturePaint(map, current.getBounds()));
g2.fill(current);

scene.setVisibility(false);
arrow.setVisibility(true);
bow.setVisibility(true);
theWorld.renderScene(buffer);
theWorld.draw(buffer);

if (adjustLine)
    bowTopAndBottom();
SimpleVector point1 = Interact2D.project3D2D(mainCamera, buffer, uppermost);
SimpleVector point2 = Interact2D.project3D2D(mainCamera, buffer, lowermost);
SimpleVector arrowPoint = Interact2D.project3D2D(mainCamera, buffer, arrowBack);

g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
g2.setColor(Color.white);
g2.drawLine((int)point1.x, (int)point1.y, (int)arrowPoint.x, (int)arrowPoint.y);
g2.drawLine((int)arrowPoint.x, (int)arrowPoint.y, (int)point2 .x, (int)point2.y);

buffer.display(g);
    }

After looking at it for twenty minutes I finally saw what I needed: FrameBuffer.getGraphics()! Not once had I used that one before. Thanks again, pal.

Is that possible using the software engine? If so, how, because the 2D graphics always seem to come out on top?

Well, the bow turns as you move the mouse. So, other than rotating it in mouseMoved(MouseEvent), how would you do it?

Thanks a lot, pal, it worked. Now, I'm occasionally getting an array index out of bounds exception with the visibilty lst (and so every occasional frame doesn't get drawn). At the beginning of the program, I'm using Config.maxPolysVsible *= 4; Does that have anything to do with it? Also, I'm only using the software renderer.

And if anybody can solve the skeletal thing for me I'll be very grateful.

Egon, I would love your help on the VertexController thing, which is the more appropriate solution in this case.

But if anyone who knows the answer to my Skeletal API problem reads this, I'd still really like to know for future reference, because this is as far as I have come to succesfully using the API and I have a lot of character stuff I want to do. For the record, this is where I got the 3dsmax 9 exporter: http://www.walkerfamily.name/lexiexport.php