It seems to me that streaming animations would be relatively easy in the VOS system. You could simply set up a listener to changes in the position and orientation of the vertices/nodes of the model that's animating, and update the values locally as they come in. Similar to how avatar movement is propagated.
I think the larger discussion of animations is referring to how to store a sequence of known animation moves, with intent to replay them later, within the VOS object model. And whether that representation could be re-used for other purposes as well. Someone correct me if I'm wrong :) Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vos-d@interreality.org> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:31 AM Subject: [vos-d] Animation comment > I've been watching the VOS project for quite a while without commenting > or participating, beyond getting it to compile once. I'm very good at > lurking. ;) > > Anyway, have you considered supporting streaming animations in addition > to pre-recorded ones? One thing I've noticed about existing 3d > environments is that making avatars move realistically is rather hard: > you have to have all desired motions available, find the correct ones > quickly, and activate the animations in the correct sequence and timing. > > It would seem much more natural to capture real motion using various > devices like cameras, accelerometers, bend sensors, and so on, and > translate this motion into actions of the 3d avatar in real time. It > would probably even be possible to translate simple mouse motions into > gestures more spontaneous than those available with pre-recorded animations. > > I realize that esoteric input devices are neither common nor readily > available, and are not likely to be for some time, but it would be nice > to have support for such built into VOS. > > > _______________________________________________ > vos-d mailing list > vos-d@interreality.org > http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d > _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
