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Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)
Posted By: Miguel Chavez	Date: 12/18/06 9:49 a.m.
In Response To: Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2) (RVideo) : Well, for the dialogue, there are two sets of data. The first set is of : course the audio track itself. The second set is the animation data that : moves the mouth (and eyebrows and other parts sometimes) that are designed : specifically for that dialogue. : When a specific audio track is triggered, a secondary trigger (animation : call) goes into action to animate the character to which the dialogue is : assigned. : If, for example, you tried to inject or replace some random voice over : Pentinent Tangent's lines. In the video example, you saw Cortana's model : animate when the dialogue's animation was called, specific to Pentient : Tangent's audio (pre determined..not dynamically interpolated). Cortana : would appear to 'speak' the original dialogue even though the new audio : may be totally different. : The audio track, the animation call and the character are all married so to : speak. The only way to make a new character speak another's dialogue is to : swap the properties of the original character. Thus, the engine is tricked : into thinking that it is mapping out the animations for Sarge, for : example, when it is actually rendering the white Elite. : Could you imagine if there was an easy, user toolkit to map out any dialogue? : Im no expert by any stretch, but I am sure that dialogue animations are : complex and difficult, even for professional software engineers. : Maybe in the distant future, there will be user toolkits to allow for custom : dialogue animation creation. : Now THAT would take machinima to a whole new level. When I first saw these anims a while back, it became pretty clear to me that Bungie took considerable time and effort to create a phonetics API of some kind (unless, like Havok, it already exists out there for licensing) which means all dialogue has to be translated from plain-english to whatever special scripting is required. Another interesting thing... how many actual mouth movements exist? It would have to be a universal set, in some manner, otherwise you couldn't transpose one character's dialogue to another without it looking really weird. Instead it's all silky-smooth. Kudos Bungie! (or whoever specifically programmed all that loveliness)

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More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)	RVideo	12/18/06 12:20 a.m.
Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)	sgtsmiles	12/18/06 1:43 a.m.
Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)	RVideo	12/18/06 2:26 a.m.
Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)	Miguel Chavez	12/18/06 9:49 a.m.
Do they walk?	Jillybean	12/18/06 1:02 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	Dojorkan	12/18/06 1:32 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	Jillybean	12/18/06 1:53 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	Dojorkan	12/18/06 2:04 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	Jillybean	12/18/06 2:05 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	RVideo	12/18/06 3:51 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	The More Deluded	12/18/06 3:55 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	RVideo	12/18/06 3:59 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	Dojorkan	12/18/06 5:15 p.m.
Re: Do they walk?	RVideo	12/19/06 7:33 a.m.
Re: Do they walk?	Dojorkan	12/19/06 8:19 a.m.
Re: Do they walk?	RVideo	12/19/06 8:39 a.m.
Re: Do they walk?	Dojorkan	12/19/06 9:19 a.m.
Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)	Dojorkan	12/18/06 1:36 p.m.
Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)	Bodie	12/18/06 6:35 a.m.
Re: More fun with Biped swaps (part 2)	PsychoRaven	12/18/06 2:04 p.m.
ROFL!	Fires7orm	12/18/06 7:12 p.m.