Animation woes and a good book
I've spent a rather frustrating few days trying to force an old lady to
sit in a chair. Not a real old lady, that would be cruel and probably
illegal. No this is a model in a serious game we are developing. I had
this crazy idea that it would be real easy to get her to sit in a
chair. All I needed to do was move her to a standing position in the
correct place relative to the chair, then blend to the sitting
animation. Turned out it was easy to get it working, very hard to get it
looking good though. Finally I realized that the problem is caused by
two things 1) the sitting animation is 90degrees rotated from the standing. I
guess if I had Max I'd have spotted that earlier. But I don't, so I
didn't :(
2) Unity doesn't like blending through such a big rotation. Actually
I'm not technically using a blend anyway. I'm using the fade. Maybe the
blend would work? Who knows? Unity aren't answering my questions which
is a bit frustrating. Anyway it sometimes works depending on the
starting rotation in world space of the old lady. Strange that it
depends on world space. I would have expected them to do the blend in
object space then transform to world space. Anyway it doesn't matter
cos it's busted and I can't fix it. Matt is going to try and rotate the
animations and then hopefully that will fix the problem. It's taken a
long time to work out what's wrong and that I can't fix it. Which is
doubly frustrating On a more positive note I've got a great book from Amazon for the
bargain second hand price of $30.00 (should have been about $70 new).
The snappily and excitingly named "Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5
Platform". It's become my favourite bedtime read. Simon knows it all
but I need to swot up on some of the more obscure aspects of C# and
.net. Also on a positive note Telstra are connecting up our phone and
broadband. Looks like we'll get ADSL2. It will be nice to have a
reasonably fast connection at home again. For the past six months we've
made do with wireless which is a bit hit and miss. Oh and I remember now why I was so keen to move to WA a few years back.
Canberra winter is cold enough to freeze the nuts of a bicycle...
sit in a chair. Not a real old lady, that would be cruel and probably
illegal. No this is a model in a serious game we are developing. I had
this crazy idea that it would be real easy to get her to sit in a
chair. All I needed to do was move her to a standing position in the
correct place relative to the chair, then blend to the sitting
animation. Turned out it was easy to get it working, very hard to get it
looking good though. Finally I realized that the problem is caused by
two things 1) the sitting animation is 90degrees rotated from the standing. I
guess if I had Max I'd have spotted that earlier. But I don't, so I
didn't :(
2) Unity doesn't like blending through such a big rotation. Actually
I'm not technically using a blend anyway. I'm using the fade. Maybe the
blend would work? Who knows? Unity aren't answering my questions which
is a bit frustrating. Anyway it sometimes works depending on the
starting rotation in world space of the old lady. Strange that it
depends on world space. I would have expected them to do the blend in
object space then transform to world space. Anyway it doesn't matter
cos it's busted and I can't fix it. Matt is going to try and rotate the
animations and then hopefully that will fix the problem. It's taken a
long time to work out what's wrong and that I can't fix it. Which is
doubly frustrating On a more positive note I've got a great book from Amazon for the
bargain second hand price of $30.00 (should have been about $70 new).
The snappily and excitingly named "Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5
Platform". It's become my favourite bedtime read. Simon knows it all
but I need to swot up on some of the more obscure aspects of C# and
.net. Also on a positive note Telstra are connecting up our phone and
broadband. Looks like we'll get ADSL2. It will be nice to have a
reasonably fast connection at home again. For the past six months we've
made do with wireless which is a bit hit and miss. Oh and I remember now why I was so keen to move to WA a few years back.
Canberra winter is cold enough to freeze the nuts of a bicycle...
