Procedural animations: presentation of concepts

[Julius]

Awesome presentation on procedural animations development (and responsive game animation in general):

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020583/An ... e-Approach

Would love to see an open-source implementation of that in the good old quake engine

[toneddu2000]

Forget about it. I would be happy enough to understand how works skel_build() in Darkplaces! We can of course hope that some day will arrive a brave new programmer who introduces next gen features like skeletal interaction with physics and skeletal attaching features (camera, weapons, etc.)

EDIT: something like and

[leileilol]

EDIT: something like

[mankrip]

[hogsy]

Oddly enough we were planning on looking into doing something like this after OpenKatana was finished, only to a more extreme level that would be more comparable to what was done in JP:Trespasser.

[toneddu2000]

[leileilol]

My point is, 'revolutionary new tech' is not a solution for game design issues and shoehorning new things doesn't fix games.

[toneddu2000]

completely agree leilei, the problem is: "if you want to create a game in 2014 that wants to have a(any kind of)audience, you MUST obey to some graphics/physics nowadays standards....Or you can do MineCraft (which, after 1 year, had mods that emulated those graphics/physics nowadays standards...)"
After that you can start thinking at your supercoolmagicfaboulous game(the gameplay I mean), but prerequisites remain.

[Julius]

Yes, this isn't really revolutional technology but rather clever use of exisiting one to lower the workload to create nice looking animations.

[mankrip]

[toneddu2000]