2011-05-16, 03:07 AM
Great- thanks 
I tried both methods and they worked for what I was asking. I've made mirrored things for non-animated models before, but I always left them halved because Meta auto-adds the mirrored half when you save as an X.
On the subject of MQX files, I noticed there's a plugin that saves Keynote files in MKX format, but I wasn't able to understand any decisive benefit. It says something about the MQX file just records bone positions for the animation but not the bones themselves (which are in the MQO).
To answer your question (AirFlamesRed) about which animated file SoM uses: SoM's converting tool (x2mdl) uses the 'Asset Import Project" import processing so we should be able to import many animation formats, but Assimp doesn't support MQX. So for Keynote at least, we're using animated X.
I tried both methods and they worked for what I was asking. I've made mirrored things for non-animated models before, but I always left them halved because Meta auto-adds the mirrored half when you save as an X. On the subject of MQX files, I noticed there's a plugin that saves Keynote files in MKX format, but I wasn't able to understand any decisive benefit. It says something about the MQX file just records bone positions for the animation but not the bones themselves (which are in the MQO).
To answer your question (AirFlamesRed) about which animated file SoM uses: SoM's converting tool (x2mdl) uses the 'Asset Import Project" import processing so we should be able to import many animation formats, but Assimp doesn't support MQX. So for Keynote at least, we're using animated X.