Miriam English schrieb:
> 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.
Stephen wrote a proto that makes for easy peasy geusture animation. There is a
reference to it in the avatar files at ariadne.
http://www.geometrek.com/members/kapiti/avatars/athena.wrl
athena is a simple example - she smokes a cigarette when you click "smoke2 in
the menu
Athena taught me the advantages of avatar cross dressing - men are so friendly
when you are skimpily dressed :)
Andrew
>
> 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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