How to load animaton on DirectX 10

Question

Hi all. I am a bigginer on game development. I wont write simple game with DirectX 10 and need to load animaton like man playing cards. I don't know how to strat. As I know I must kreate my own file format and convert from some other format to it, but I don't know how. So please help me and if it is possible give some code example. Thanks.

Answer 1

The DirectX SDK features a sample application with source code called Skinning10 that implements character animation.

The NVIDIA Direct3D SDK shows off Skinning with Dual Quaternions.

Also, you may want to have a look at the CAL3D Character Animation Library.