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Create Procedural Animations & Scripted Textures

Demitrious Doctorow
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Join date: 12 Nov 2005
Posts: 22
05-03-2006 15:41
I would like to create procedural textures and animation. Research into doing this would be great for us to make natural looking textures that can be edited within sl and for bandwidth. more algorithmic textures and less predone textures might help lower lag and filesystem clutter. Plus we need a more fluid lifelike animation not designed by someone but automatically calculated by the computer (possably on the user side and not the server side) with an easy to use editor that would calculate a smooth transition when an ordinary person just moves a limb or something to make there own animations that are more realistic and will make sl even more appealing to everyone (not that it already is a great system).
Myrilla Vixen
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Join date: 11 Jun 2005
Posts: 143
05-03-2006 15:47
From: Demitrious Doctorow
I would like to create procedural textures and animation. Research into doing this would be great for us to make natural looking textures that can be edited within sl and for bandwidth. more algorithmic textures and less predone textures might help lower lag and filesystem clutter. Plus we need a more fluid lifelike animation not designed by someone but automatically calculated by the computer (possably on the user side and not the server side) with an easy to use editor that would calculate a smooth transition when an ordinary person just moves a limb or something to make there own animations that are more realistic and will make sl even more appealing to everyone (not that it already is a great system).



A noble idea, lets see how Spore does it first ok? :3
Demitrious Doctorow
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Join date: 12 Nov 2005
Posts: 22
SPORE!!! howd you know!
05-07-2006 02:06
From: Myrilla Vixen
A noble idea, lets see how Spore does it first ok? :3

lol how did you know thats where my idea came from Spore (Which i cant wait to see in all of its glory when it ships).
iaid Chaika
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Join date: 1 Apr 2006
Posts: 7
05-08-2006 11:55
Sounds like a great idea. (something which I've thought of as well)

I think procedural objects would also be nice.
Draco18s Majestic
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Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 2,744
05-09-2006 12:24
From: Demitrious Doctorow
lol how did you know thats where my idea came from Spore (Which i cant wait to see in all of its glory when it ships).


I mentioned it sometime back in a suggestion for us to create our own bone system for avatars. The question of "how would you animate it?" came up.