posted 04-16-2002 04:29 AM            

2) When interpolating between frames, how did you choose the interpolation value? Did you pick what looks good, or did you have some inside info on the game engine?
How many interpolations do you calculate between frames? Is it always the same for all animations and all objects?
What time interval do you use between frames?

3) Have you tried to determine what the animation commands do? I mean beyond what TRosetta Stone gives.
What about the 8 unknown words in the TR4 animations (only 4 in TR1-3)?

posted 04-16-2002 06:08 AM            

Maybe I'll have to use email.

posted 04-16-2002 11:17 AM               

quote:

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Originally posted by TRWad:
...never get more then 1 pop-up.

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Same here.

posted 04-16-2002 11:22 AM               

quote:

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Originally posted by aktrekker:
**** ezboard.

[This message has been edited by Driber_IF (edited 04-16-2002).]

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posted 04-16-2002 11:34 AM               

quote:

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Originally posted by TRWad:
Seems you said a bad word

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posted 04-17-2002 12:34 AM               

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KingSpyder
KingSpyder@thefreesite.com

posted 04-17-2002 08:52 AM            

fairchild, will that work at ezboard? I've tried it at some sites and nothing works.

posted 04-17-2002 02:17 PM            

i use I.E or Netscape depending on
how quickly i wish to peruse the site.
nothing worse than wanting to get tools,etc,
& running into somebody's *cute Web site*
that Takes Forever to load -

posted 04-17-2002 02:23 PM               

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Originally posted by aktrekker:
Actually, I included asterisks in the word to filter it myself. Seems Eidos is filtering the filtered words.

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The reason for this is quite clear:

Excerpt taken from the Eidos Terms of Use
No Cursing or Swear words. We encourage you to use our Communities as a forum to debate topics, but please use proper adjectives to express yourself. This includes the creative use of different characters to circumvent our censor.

posted 04-17-2002 11:44 PM               

(thanks to KingSpyder for crossposting to ezboard)

> I notice that meshes are numbered from
> zero. But animations are numbered from 1.
> Is this on purpose, or is animation zero a
> do-nothing animation that you skipped? I
> noticed when trying to match animations in
> the TR4 file with what you show that
> sometimes the state id doesn't seem to
> line up, so I assume you started numbering
> at 1 instead of zero.

Yes, I started numbering from 1 instead of 0 just because I thought it was more logical for level builders to start counting from 1 and not 0 (it's only for programmers that counting from 0 is more logical . In the current version of TrVr I'm working on (when I have time...), these numbering may all disappear, because I'm replacing these number by friendly names (for Lara, for eg, "Animation #1" will be replaced by "Lara running").

> When interpolating between frames, how did
> you choose the interpolation value? Did
> you pick what looks good, or did you have
> some inside info on the game engine?

No, no need to have inside infos into the game engine: the interpolation I make is something "standard". I use quaternions to represent rotation informations at each node (link) of a moveable. Then, when displaying the animation, for each node, I interpolate between the quaternion of the current frame and the quat. for the next frame (strictly speaking, it's the quat. for the current / next key - the frame number just gives the interpolation factor to use between the two keys). If you don't know quaternions, then just search for it on Internet, you will look plenty of docs. And you can look at TrVr sources too, it can help (check the Anim*.h / cpp files).

> How many interpolations do you calculate
> between frames? Is it always the same for
> all animations and all objects?
> What time interval do you use between
> frames?

Basically, to calculate the next frame to display, I just use the time taken to display the last frame and the frame rate at which the moveable should be displayed (which is 30 fps in TR). Then, given this new frame number, I'm able to calculate the interpolation factor to use to blend between the two keys (quaternions) this frame is comprised into. Look at function boRunForward and boSetCurrentFrame of the CAnimTrack class (m_fAnimFPS=30).

> Have you tried to determine what the
> animation commands do? I mean beyond what
> TRosetta Stone gives.
> What about the 8 unknown words in the TR4
> animations (only 4 in TR1-3)?

No, I don't have particulary looked at that for the moment, but I will because I'm currently rewriting the animation support in TrVr, and anim commands are one area I have to work into. If you find the meaning of some new anim commands, don't hesitate to share I will do the same thing.

Bye,