skeletal human animations [UPDATED]

xray · Post by **xray** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:42 pm

Woah the football animations looking really good, and it is a interesting approach to increase the quality of animations, and even to get unique motions every time. I read the stuff on their page but where not able to focus the whole stuff how it works. For me it looks like they are "just" combining static animations with physics and get somehow dynamic unique motions...

So I would be looking forward to discuss this new method of creating animations!

xray · Post by **xray** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:37 pm

Check the main post for updates!!

irruser · Post by **irruser** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:04 pm

very nice works very smooth

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Carama · Post by **Carama** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:22 pm

its very nice but with every character there are less and less fps

xray · Post by **xray** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:38 pm

its very nice but with every character there are less and less fps

turn the shadows of, they are from irrlicht and not really fps friendly

fukuda · Post by **fukuda** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:42 pm

Woah! Thanks

kaliber · Post by **kaliber** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:57 am

this is great
but i don't know how to use it
is there any tutorial ??

xray · Post by **xray** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:38 pm

Well, there is no tutorial but did you downloaded the binary? Theres also the source included, and it should be enough to see how it works. You can post your questions as well.

Lucian_Caetano · Post by **Lucian_Caetano** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:03 pm

Hey implements a scripting system .

for example:

MOV BONE_1 X:Value | Y:Value | Z:Value

munemune · Post by **munemune** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:22 am

Nice!!! Keep the good work

By the way there any plan to do more movement? like crawl, holding gun, trow small object and such??

xray · Post by **xray** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:44 pm

Thanks munemune, I didnt planned to created some more movements but a crawl would be really cool. But there are some problems extending the class to animations like holding a gun, aiming and so on... because they are not cycled animations, so I had to expand the class alot. If I will find some time and willing, I will work again on it.

pera · Post by **pera** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:49 pm

can you make example with several characters walking around randomly?

can your class be used for 'NPC' manipulation?

shadowslair · Post by **shadowslair** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:35 pm

pera wrote:can you make example with several characters walking around randomly?

can your class be used for 'NPC' manipulation?

Of course he can, but if you need such a thing why not just create it yourself? And for the "walking randomly" stuff you may need some extra algorithm, which will run outa the skeleton manipulation class, don`t ya think? He said he`s rather busy, so I really doubt he`ll do it.

Yep, it can be used for either NPC, or whatever stuff you want, keeping in mind the limitations xray mentioned above. Ah, and you may need some skills creating and animating your own characters too.

xray · Post by **xray** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:17 pm

Yep, shadowslair said it...

There are still some plans to expand the class alot with a little demo where physics is working collecting items, fighting and so on, thinking of the character control and capabilities like in "jedi knight".

xray · Post by **xray** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:45 am

One question to the users who used or still using my class, is there anyone of you who expanded the class with some more animations ? If so could you post the animation functions please ?

I thought about it again and want to change the method of calculating the animations. I want to use splines in the future to get more realistic animations and to be able to simulate any function. The result would be creating more complex animations and also be able to create non cycled movements like holding things (gun... whatever), pick things up, aiming etc.

The second thing I want to append is something like "euphoria" animations. Not that complex but the first step should be that the characters be able to react on physics and getting random movements, so that the animations are all the time different depending on the environment.

If someone of you interested in helping or discussing this ideas, I would be happy

cheers