[ODE] ode & dynamic skeletal animationsystem

[Henri Hakl]

Sounds neat :)

Such a system could adaptively animate for changes in environment conditions
(eg: walking on flat ground, transitioning to a slope, transitioning to
walking on a swinging hang-bridge, walking up stairs, etc... - in each case
the animation should be adapted to correctly "place" the foot and make the
resultant motion look realistic.

Good luck. :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dietmar Suoch" <dietmar.suoch@fhs-hagenberg.ac.at>
To: "ODE mailing list" <ode@q12.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:17 PM
Subject: [ODE] ode & dynamic skeletal animationsystem


> hi,
>
> i'm currently working on a prototyp for my diploma thesis.
> i made a realtime skeletal character animation system and
> now i would like to influence the bones and therefore the
> played animations. (let it be dynamic ;)
>
> so i thought about a physics engine/API, because bones are actually
> joints.
> sounds a bit like ragdoll physics, but it's a different approach.
> rag doll physics apply to the character after death and replaces so
> called death-animations.
>
> i'd like to let forces or params influence the animations so
> they do not look the same all the time they are played.
> i do not necessarily need to influence anims all the time,
> only under certain circumstances (explosions, wind from any direction,
> areas with lower/higher gravity, etc.).
>
> how could i do this?
> i think i would need motion mixing (mixing the currently played
> animation with the calculated bone-positions, of course with
> a kind of weighting factor).
>
> should gravity be 0 and should only integrate about specific
> time steps and applyspecific forces?
>
> any other ideas or comments?
>
> you're welcome, thanks,
> didi
>
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> media technology & design
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>
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