History: Loading Animations without a RenderSystem

            {CODE(wrap="1", colors="c++")} #include "conio.h"
 #include "stdlib.h"
 
 #include "OgreMeshManager.h"
 #include "OgreRoot.h"
 #include "OgreDefaultHardwareBufferManager.h"
 
 void main()
 {
     // start ogre
     Ogre::Root* root = new Ogre::Root("", "", "ogre.log");
     new Ogre::DefaultHardwareBufferManager();
 
     // add resources
     Ogre::ResourceGroupManager::getSingletonPtr()->addResourceLocation("./media", "FileSystem", Ogre::ResourceGroupManager::DEFAULT_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME);
 
     // initialise resource paths
     Ogre::ResourceGroupManager::getSingletonPtr()->initialiseAllResourceGroups();
 
     // load the mesh
     Ogre::MeshPtr mesh = Ogre::MeshManager::getSingleton().load("robot.mesh", Ogre::ResourceGroupManager::DEFAULT_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME);
 
     // create & load a SkeletonInstance
     Ogre::SkeletonInstance* skelInst = new Ogre::SkeletonInstance(mesh->getSkeleton());
     skelInst->load();
 
     // create & load an AnimationStateSet
     Ogre::AnimationStateSet* animStateSet = new Ogre::AnimationStateSet();
     mesh->_initAnimationState(animStateSet);
 
     // enable the "Walk" AnimationState and loop it
     Ogre::AnimationState* animState = animStateSet->getAnimationState("Walk");
     animState->setEnabled(true);
     animState->setLoop(true);
 
     while(!kbhit())
     {
         // clear the screen
         system("cls");
 
         // print out bone positions, to see that it's working
         Ogre::Skeleton::BoneIterator it = skelInst->getBoneIterator();
         while(it.hasMoreElements())
         {
             std::cout << Ogre::StringConverter::toString(it.getNext()->_getDerivedPosition()) << std::endl;
         }
 
         // instead of this fixed time value, you would of course use
         // the dynamic frame-time of your main application loop
         animState->addTime(0.001);
 
         // update the skeleton instance
         skelInst->setAnimationState(*animStateSet);
     }
 
     // cleanup
     mesh.setNull();
     delete skelInst;
     delete animStateSet;
     delete root;
 }
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