I am currently attempting to incorporate animated models in my game engine, using Assimp to load the models. I can load and render the static model just fine, but when I try to enable the animation, it basically explodes. I can tell the animation is there and running smoothly, though something isn't working properly.
I have many things to explore in solving the issues at hand, but one in particular is troubling: The code is written to handle 4 bone weights, mostly because it appears to be fairly standard and is easy to pass to the shader. But the model has more than 4 weights per vertex.
So my question is this: What is the best way to handle having more bone weights than the code/shader can handle? Should I run through all the weights and pick the top 4 and adjust them to add up to 1? I could probably code for more weights, but then where does it end?
