Ok, well, I've just finished the bone loader for character models finally.
Here's the problem. I have a list of polygons that has 3 indexes into a list of vertices, corresponding to the 3 points of the triangles that are being rendered. Well, bones are linked to vertices rather than triangles, so I can't figure out how I should be matching polygons to bones so I can use GL's matrix functions to do all of the animation math. I'm not sure if there are any polygons that don't have all of their vertices connected to a single bone, but it wouldn't suprise me. I'll do some testing in a bit I guess.
Anyway, the bone tree structure is finished, and you can very obviously see the structure. Here's a dump of the bone structure for a bat. The first name is the name of the current bone. It's followed by up to 2 bone names, 1 with a - in front of it, 1 with a +. This allows you to see the bone connections.
ROOT_BONE + PELV
PELV + PELV_TAIL01
CHEST_CHEST01 + LEGR_THIGH
CHEST_CHEST02 + CHEST_CHEST03
CHEST_CHEST03 + CHEST03_TORCH01
HEAD_NECK + ARMR_CLAV
HEAD_HEAD + HEAD_CAM02
HEAD_BROWL01
HEAD_BROWR01 - HEAD_BROWL01
HEAD_EARL01 - HEAD_BROWR01 + HEAD_EARL02
HEAD_EARL02 + HEAD_EARL03
HEAD_EARL03
HEAD_EARR01 - HEAD_EARL01 + HEAD_EARR02
HEAD_EARR02 + HEAD_EARR03
HEAD_EARR03
HEAD_JAW - HEAD_EARR01
HEAD_LIDLL - HEAD_JAW
HEAD_LIDLU - HEAD_LIDLL
HEAD_LIDRL - HEAD_LIDLU
HEAD_LIDRU - HEAD_LIDRL
HEAD_NAME - HEAD_LIDRU
HEAD_CAM01 - HEAD_NAME
HEAD_CAM02 - HEAD_CAM01
ARML_CLAV - HEAD_HEAD + ARML_BCEP
ARML_BCEP + ARML_FARM
ARML_FARM + ARML_SHLD
ARML_HAND + ARML_WEAP
ARML_INDEX01 + ARML_INDEX02
ARML_INDEX02 + ARML_INDEX03
ARML_INDEX03
ARML_PINK01 - ARML_INDEX01 + ARML_PINK02
ARML_PINK02 + ARML_PINK03
ARML_PINK03
ARML_POINT01 - ARML_PINK01 + ARML_POINT02
ARML_POINT02 + ARML_POINT03
ARML_POINT03
ARML_RING01 - ARML_POINT01 + ARML_RING02
ARML_RING02 + ARML_RING03
ARML_RING03
ARML_THMB01 - ARML_RING01 + ARML_THMB02
ARML_THMB02 + ARML_THMB03
ARML_THMB03
ARML_WEAP - ARML_THMB01
ARML_WING01 - ARML_HAND
ARML_SHLD - ARML_WING01
ARMR_CLAV - ARML_CLAV + ARMR_BCEP
ARMR_BCEP + ARMR_FARM
ARMR_FARM + ARMR_WING01
ARMR_HAND + ARMR_WEAP
ARMR_INDEX01 + ARMR_INDEX02
ARMR_INDEX02 + ARMR_INDEX03
ARMR_INDEX03
ARMR_PINK01 - ARMR_INDEX01 + ARMR_PINK02
ARMR_PINK02 + ARMR_PINK03
ARMR_PINK03
ARMR_POINT01 - ARMR_PINK01 + ARMR_POINT02
ARMR_POINT02 + ARMR_POINT03
ARMR_POINT03
ARMR_RING01 - ARMR_POINT01 + ARMR_RING02
ARMR_RING02 + ARMR_RING03
ARMR_RING03
ARMR_THMB01 - ARMR_RING01 + ARMR_THMB02
ARMR_THMB02 + ARMR_THMB03
ARMR_THMB03
ARMR_WEAP - ARMR_THMB01
ARMR_WING01 - ARMR_HAND
CHEST03_TORCH01 - HEAD_NECK
LEGL_THIGH - CHEST_CHEST02 + LEGL_CALF
LEGL_CALF + LEGL_FOOT
LEGL_FOOT + LEGL_THUMB01
LEGL_RING01 + LEGL_RING02
LEGL_RING02 + LEGL_RING03
LEGL_RING03
LEGL_POINT01 - LEGL_RING01 + LEGL_POINT02
LEGL_POINT02 + LEGL_POINT03
LEGL_POINT03
LEGL_THUMB01 - LEGL_POINT01 + LEGL_THUMB02
LEGL_THUMB02 + LEGL_THUMB03
LEGL_THUMB03
LEGR_THIGH - LEGL_THIGH + LEGR_CALF
LEGR_CALF + LEGR_FOOT
LEGR_FOOT + LEGR_THUMB01
LEGR_RING01 + LEGR_RING02
LEGR_RING02 + LEGR_RING03
LEGR_RING03
LEGR_POINT01 - LEGR_RING01 + LEGR_POINT02
LEGR_POINT02 + LEGR_POINT03
LEGR_POINT03
LEGR_THUMB01 - LEGR_POINT01 + LEGR_THUMB02
LEGR_THUMB02 + LEGR_THUMB03
LEGR_THUMB03
PELV_TAIL01 - CHEST_CHEST01 + PELV_TAIL02
PELV_TAIL02
So yea, we're getting somewhere now
