At 14:48 18/06/99 +0800, Gong Jianhua wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Could I change the position of my avatar as I navigate the VRML world?
>
>If Vnet supports this function, users will see each other move in the
>VRML world.
Hi Gong,
If you mean does the avatar move from place to place, then yes VNet already
supports that.
If you mean does VNet support gestures, yes it can, but the only person who
has really experimented with this properly is Steve Guynup. He has played
with altering the avatar so that it becomes different things, but it is
just a small step from that to animated, gesturing avatars.
Perhaps you might like to work on this area. There is a lot of great work
on animating humanoid avatars at: http://ece.uwaterloo.ca:80/~h-anim/
Cati has been creating a number of nice avatars that would lend themselves
very wel to h-anim actions. I began to modify one of her avatars for that
but I got buried by other projects before I could finish. I am sure she
would be very happy if you decided to do that... she is probably sick of
waiting for me to get back to it. :-)
Best wishes,
- Miriam
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