[ODE] ode & dynamic skeletal animationsystem

[Dietmar Suoch]

Henri Hakl wrote:
> Sounds neat :)

thank you ;)

> 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.

yes, that would be a step for the future of the system.
but is assume that would need a real good inverse kinematics algorithm.

actually half life 2 (again) already seems to have that.
at this year's Eł they showed a ingame-video with an enemy
called "strider", a huge monster with thin, long legs.
as it couldn't pass a kind of archway, it "limbo-d" underneath it.
they said, the movement was calculated (with IK of course) on the fly.

but at the end "plane calculated anims" won't ever look as nice as
offline-anims. so the mixing/blending would still be an issue.

jmho.

> Good luck. :)
thanks again


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