This was posted to the Croquet developer list. I'm posting it here
too to make sure that everyone who might be interested gets to see it.
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From: David Faught <
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Date: Sep 5, 2007 1:16 PM
Subject: Skeletal Animation Example(s)
To: Croquet-Devel <
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There is a page started on the Croquet Consortium wiki at
http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/Skeletal_Animation_Examplefor this project. Here are a few further thoughts that may find their
way onto that page eventually:
* I am thinking of first blasting through a simple figure just to get
something to work. I'm sure even this will take me several hours of
which I have few right now. We'll see how this works out.
* There is a ninja figure included with the Ogre SDK that has several
animations already built, but it may not be directly usable because it
is stored in Ogre's binary formats rather than the XML formats. I
noticed that there is an XML-to-binary conversion program available at
the Ogre site, but I'm not sure it goes both directions. While this
figure could not be freely distributed under the Croquet license, it
might be useful as an early test case for the UI portion of this
project.
* It might be cool to rig the Croquet White Rabbit and/or Alice just
to continue using the same models. I think they can be directly
imported into Blender3D for a starting point, although I haven't tried
that yet.
* I think that the real challenge is to get some real artists involved
somehow. I took enough art classes in college to know that I'm a
technician with no real artistic talent. Maybe it would be useful to
approach the Blender3D community with a contest where all entries must
be made available under the Croquet license. I have the impression
that good 3D artists are in demand and don't like to give away their
work, so this might not yield much. Maybe some students taking a
class on 3D design would be a good source?
Let me know your thoughts on any or all of this.
Dave
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