Class allows the loading of actors (eg an animated monster) with many different file formats such as Quake II, Quake III, Halflife and Milkshape. Refer to the file formats article for a complete list.

Animation files associated with actors can also be loaded (eg .aaf files for Quake and other .smd files for Half-Life). A simple method (TGLActor.switchtoanimation) allows switching of different animations (eg from walking to running).

A more formal explanation is that it provides a quick interface to animated meshes based on morphor skeleton frames. It is capable of performing frame interpolation and animation blending (via TGLAnimationController components).

Important TGLActor properties and methods include:

procedure switchtoanimation (animationName:String)

Change the animation of the actor to the animation in its animation list

currentframe integer

The current frame of the animation being displayed

nextframeindex integer

The frame after the current frame. If the current frame is the last frame then the next frame will be the first frame

animationmode TActorAnimationMode

Whether the animation is played once, looped or loops from backwards to forwards.

meshobjects TMeshObjectList

The list of vertices, normals and texcoords of the actor

procedure structurechanged

Call this procedure if the texture or mesh has been changed otherwise any change wont appear

animations TActorAnimations

Provides a list of available actor animations such as running, jumping and standing idle.

interval integer

Number of milliseconds between frames. By default it is 100.

Demo: CVS/Demos/meshes/actor

Unit: GLVectorFileObjects

Descends from TGLBaseMesh.