On 29.09.2012 09:32, Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim wrote:

Hi all,

I just found out about OpenFlipper. Tried the program, but have no clue on how to use some of the plugins. Looked for the user documentations on the specific plugins "how to"s, but couldn't find it anywhere. Can someone help me and show me how to use the skeleton plugin (drawing bones, and animate it), please? Thanks.

Hi, the creation of skeletons is in the Skeleton editing Plugin. It's user documentation is available here: http://openflipper.org/Daily-Builds/Doc/User/Plugin-SkeletonEditing/ The support for animating them is currently rather limited. You can load BVH Files with existing animations and play them with the Skeletal animation plugin.

I also read the supplied pdf regarding OpenFlipper being used by two companies. How does the license applied to the commercial project such as that? Also, is there any differences between the free and the commercial OpenFlipper? No, the Core is under LGPL and freely available (and is usually the same for commercial and free projects, except, that sometimes only a subset of the plugins is included). Only changes to these free components have to be published. Additionally one can write closed source plugins for OpenFlipper. Linking against the core libraries does not cause the plugin to fall under the LGPL, so you are not forced to publish it's code.

Best, Jan Möbius -- Dipl.Inform. Jan Möbius Department of Computer Science VIII Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) Ahornstrasse 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany Phone ++49 (0)241 80-21817 Fax ++49 (0)241 80-22899 mailto:moebius@cs.rwth-aachen.de http://www.rwth-graphics.de