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DanHartog
11-23-2004, 02:50 PM
Hello All:scream:

I am looking for a way to animate my characters real time using a joystick or gamecontroller, no rendering but direct output to a screen.
As if it was a game and the (texured)character is controlled by a joystick/controller.

Can Kaydara motionbuilder 6.0 do the job or do I have to start messing around with a game-engine?

I don't want to re-invent the wheel on this one, any tips/urls are more then welcome:buttrock:

Tia
Sammer
11-23-2004, 06:34 PM
Hi Dan,

Yes, I believe with MotionBuilder can control a character realtime via a device or facial animation with the voice tool. I don't remember where (or if it's still mentioned in MotionBuilder 6 docs) but there was some licensing requirements when using the voice tool and live broadcasts. If you haven't already the demo is available here http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/motionbuilder/index.shtml
Good luck
Sam
DanHartog
11-23-2004, 09:04 PM
Hi Dan,

Yes, I believe with MotionBuilder can control a character realtime via a device or facial animation with the voice tool. I don't remember where (or if it's still mentioned in MotionBuilder 6 docs) but there was some licensing requirements when using the voice tool and live broadcasts. If you haven't already the demo is available here http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/motionbuilder/index.shtml
Good luck
SamSam, do you know where I can see examples of the output when you use this way of animating?

It would be interesting to see how far can I take textures and shading. Shading and Texture wise I would like my characters to look like the characters in Soul Caliburs, a bit high on the ladder for KM 6.0 but how far can I push it?
Sammer
11-23-2004, 11:26 PM
You might be able to extract the data from MB and send it to another app. I would think that you would need something like http://www.kaydara.com/products/online/index.php?filename=overview if MB was able to do that, I don't think there would have been a seperate app. for it.
Good luck
Sam
Grenal
11-24-2004, 02:06 AM
Yes, you can drive animation from a joystick, keyboard, etc.

(Check out the Aragor character and press "1" and you'll see him shoot his gun)

There are a couple of tutorials about doing this.

Kaydara is basically a game engine. Check out the 'devices' tab and you'll see the joystick. If you just drag that into the Viewer window and then drag in a Relations constraint, then drag the joystick into the Relations window, you'll start to get and idea of the stuff you can do.
DanHartog
11-24-2004, 08:31 AM
Thanks for your replies. I'm convinced that I can animate with a joystick/controller but Im still very very curious about the output and the limitation of shaders and textures in real time output..:arteest:
Any good online tutorials maybe?
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