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From: doglife <doglife@cyberdude.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Query on 3d animation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:07:12 +0900
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Hi,

I am currently doing a research on yaroze for my school and now trying
on 3D character animation. After serching thru the members website and
reading the news group, there are still something I am unsure off and
hope that u guys will help me out on this

1) From the demo on the members website (found under the new FTP demo
download section), there is this sample using a .tod file to do
character animation. How is the tod file generated and is there a tool
for it?

2) And in the dino demo (found under the old FTP demo download section),
a similiar file with the extension .vdf is used for storing character
animation. How is the file being generated and again, is there a tool
for it?

 For this question, I am just giving it a shot...

3) I found out that there are many ways on doing the animation like .tod
file (found in the member website), .vdf (from the dino demo), and by
using RsdAnim (cool tool u got there, Craig) etc... Is there a standard
way to do 3d character animation? If no (of course not!), which method
is most likely to be use and what are the method being use in commercial
game (like FF7, Tomb Raider etc...)?

Thanks!

Doglife