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From: Max <mad.max@which.net>
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Subject: Re: RAW data animation
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 23:24:43 +0000
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Thanks for the reply man, I thought this was a rather passe topic amoungst
members but once again I have been proved wrong.

I would be very interested in any code or further ideas you have to show me. The
animation is for Asylum of Eclipse's upcomming Mach Force. It's something I want
to look at for it.

You are very welcome to join the Eclipse team. Mail Marc Lambert at
mlambert@netcomuk.co.uk for further details, hes the main man.

Max

Warren Khan wrote:

> Hey Max.
>
>   From what you asked here and in Freetalk I assume your doing a first
> person shooter with realistic blood textures and falling bodies?  Joints
> that can only move in a range of angles?   I tried this several
> months ago with my "Feet of Flame Massacre" game using the GCon lib - it's
> bloody difficult.  Another game that lies 5% done.
> However I did manage to have multiple "people" from the same
> model (loaded once) and their arms, legs, hands, feet and heads were all
> separate entities.
>
>   The way to do it way to move the super coord to the linked item.
> Therefore the hands super would be the coords for the (forearm + length of
> forearm), the forearms super would the coords for the (bicep + length of
> bicep), linked to torso, etc.  The same for the feet, shins and thighs.  The
> way this works is if the super of a part moves it also moves the part.  You
> have to + the length of the linked part otherwise both parts would start at
> the linked parts origin (i.e. hands and forearms both connected to the
> elbow).
>
>   The biggest pain was getting the model setup right so the sub-parts
> appeared in the right place.  I think I also found it difficult to show more
> than 20 of the line dancing cretins on the screen at the same time.
>
>   I managed to implement moving limbs around before I got bored and
> concentrated on a different idea.
>
>   If you are interested I could give you more details.
>
>   Warren.
>
> PS.  I was thinking of joining the Eclipse thing and perhaps then having the
> time (and  the choicest brains to pick) to do justice to the little jigging
> nonces.
>
> Max wrote in message <3898A7C2.AD35F6FE@which.net>...
> >Does anyone know if it is un heard of to do raw data animation? You
> >know, make every object seperate then link them together in code as an
> >entity with every object relative to the main part (say the torso).
> >Would an array do it or is there a less processor/RAM intensive way????
> >
> >Thanx for all feedback coz I notice the newsgroups are really dead these
> >weeks
> >
> >Max
> >