I am currently using assimp to import various parts of a robot model but would like to animate/skin it in my OpenGL environment to simulate a range of motion.
To my understanding, this isn’t really supported in OpenGL especially since I am dealing with .obj files.
I was curious if there was an implementation to support joints that rotate about one axis/point in my model.
For reference a majority of my code follows this series:
assimp loading - Modern OpenGL 3.0+ [MODEL LOADING] Tutorial 16 - Assimp Model Class and Loading A Model - YouTube
github repository - GitHub - SonarSystems/Modern-OpenGL-Tutorials
I’ve also attached an image of a single joint in my model for visuals. Basically these parts interlock and should rotate within each other
Any help or direction would be appreciated!
Edit: My current attempt to implement this comes from OpenGL Step by Step - OpenGL Development however to my understanding the tutorial assumes you have a mesh that is already boned in some way whereas my .obj is missing this information which lead me to think I should implement my own vertex/bone struct in my code.
