I trust you guys know what you're doing, programming the 'remote interface'. My two cents remain; 1 Video files have 'keyframes' for long and complex animations that, if you start in the middle, the video attempts to jump to and then render itself forward to your current frame, or 'clock' so to speak. 2 A complex calculation like ((world.time + time.offset) % time.modulus) * time.scalar would require a number of processor cycles, and using that number, find a way to precache the calculation for each object that is currently wobbling around. Keep in mind that every running penguin, every spinning globe, every burning torch is an animating object, which would require another calculation. =\
I'm not sure how easily this would apply itself to a three-dimensional world, but Flash is a lot like a three-dimensional world, and here's a really interesting video about models and frames, demonstrating what appears to be a single four-dimensional movie clip (X and Y, and two dimensions in time). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPprykdYik -Steve On 12/1/06, Peter Amstutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just wanted to clear up one misconception I noticed in a few replies to my mail. The key ideas here are: a) time is relative to the viewer So, for example, an animation loop is specified from time 0 .. 10. The world time is 29, and we started the animation at time 15. The "world" clock is 29. The "animation" clock tells us what animation frame to display. To go from the "world" time domain to the "animation" time domain, we need to apply a time transform. This is a linear equation in the form t1 = ((world.time + time.offset) % time.modulus) * time.scalar So in this example, we apply((29 + (-15)) % 10) * 1 = 4 So at "world" time 29 we show animation frame 4. - If a clock is a vobject, then the connections between clocks can be parent-child links. This also means a single clock can drive many time-based vobjects. - The current assumption is that the root of a virtual space is hosted on a single site, so that would also hold the clock for that particular space.
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