Loading an animated MD2 file (min3D framework for Android)

NOTE: This OpenGL ES 1.1 framework isn’t maintained anymore. Check out the OpenGL ES 2.0 Rajawali framework which also supports live wallpapers.

I just updated min3D for Android with an MD2 file importer.  MD2 is a format that was developed by ID Software and originally used for Quake II and other games. MD2 can be used for static models but the main reason for using it is animation.

Min3D is now able to import 3 different filetypes:

• Wavefront OBJ (text)
• 3DS (binary)
• MD2 (binary, animation)

This is what the code looks like. Check out the min3D sample application to see it running:

package min3d.sampleProject1;

import min3d.animation.AnimationObject3d;
import min3d.core.RendererActivity;
import min3d.parser.IParser;
import min3d.parser.Parser;

public class ExampleLoadMD2File extends RendererActivity {
	private AnimationObject3d ogre;
	@Override
	public void initScene() {
		IParser parser = Parser.createParser(Parser.Type.MD2,
				getResources(), "min3d.sampleProject1:raw/ogro");
		parser.parse();

		ogre = parser.getParsedAnimationObject();
		ogre.scale().x = ogre.scale().y = ogre.scale().z = .07f;
		ogre.rotation().z = -90;
		ogre.rotation().x = -90;
		scene.addChild(ogre);
		ogre.setFps(70);
		ogre.play();
	}

	@Override
	public void updateScene() {

	}

}

Here’s the result (click the image to see the youtube video):

Please note that it looks MUCH better on a handset.