Skeleton

Class for representing armatures in the GameCube engine..
The skeleton is defined by a hierarchy of bones and manages bone matrices for skeletal animation. It provides methods to calculate bone inverse matrices, update bone transformations, and manage bone data for vertex skinning.

• Manages collection of bones in hierarchy
• Calculates bone inverse matrices for bind pose
• Updates bone matrices for animation

Methods

Skeleton(const vector<Bone>& bones, const vector<Mtx>& boneInverses)

Constructor with bones and optional inverse matrices

bones	Array of bones defining the skeleton	empty
boneInverses	Array of bone inverse matrices	empty

void init()

Initializes the skeleton with bone data

void calculateInverses()

Computes the bone inverse matrices from current bone world matrices

void pose()

Resets the skeleton to the base pose using inverse matrices

void update()

Updates bone matrices for animation and prepares bone data

void computeBoneTexture()

Computes a data texture for passing bone data to vertex shader

Bone* getBoneByName(const string& name)

Searches for a bone with the specified name

name

The name of the bone to find

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Skeleton* clone()

Returns a clone of this Skeleton object

Properties

boneInverses	vector<Mtx*>	Array of bone inverse matrices
boneMatrices	f32*	Array buffer holding bone data
boneTexture	Texture*	Texture holding bone data for vertex shader
bones	vector<Bone*>	Array of bones defining the skeleton
enabled	bool	Active/inactive
id	u32	Unique identifier
isSkeleton	bool	Read-only tag
matricesHash	u32	hash of last flattened matrices to detect changes
name	string	Optional display name
uuid	string	UUID string
version	u32	Bumps on change