I know whenever I am trying to create a walk animation I can't get it just right. Well have no fear, lookie what I stumbled across today.
http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html
It's perfect for getting the walk animation you desire for all sorts of people.
Just to be a pedantic git, this was posted in the Tutorials thread (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=600.msg112228#msg112228) a while back. (Nearly two years, in fact.)
But yes, it is quite useful.
:/ i did spend sometime looking to see if this had been posted but couldn't find anything. oh well.
What would be good would be a program where you draw a torso, thigh, shin, foot, upper and lower arm, hand and head and then it creates a walkcycle for you with no anti-aliasing around the edges to give a nasty white outline in AGS...
You can freak that dotty bastard out. Totally womanate it, totally skinnynate it, and then move the nervous/relaxed bar up and down to the extremes. Now, does anyone want to tell me why this makes the buttocks pucker? And why in God's name is there no "drunken stagger," but being excessively happy makes a close approximation?
I think whoever they had the motion sensor cells on was a drunk.
I'll look to that website if I ever need to animate a penguin ;)
Do normal people really constantly bend their arms like that? Wouldn't a normal arm stretch out a bit while in back position?
If it had a save frames option, I'd use it. :D
Hah, it walks exactly like the people on GTA when you adjust it to Female, Heavy, Relaxed, and leave the last bar in the middle... really, this thing doesn't look at all like human walking, like there was no gravity, all its movements are too easy... Yuo might want to try one with Nervous and Happy, even Thin and you'll see how people don't walk...
Oh my god!
All female, all skinny all relaxed and all happy is the creepiest animation I've ever seen! o_o
Try Male Light Nervous Happy... that's just twisted.
FULL female
FULL light
FULL nervous
FULL happy
What's that about?!!!
It's Benny Hill!
Put all the sliders to the very right.
Now there's a very sensuous walk. ;)
It's not a horrible reference, but if you read the page, you'll see it's not mocap. It's accumulated responses to surveys of what people think looks feminine or happy. Some people seem to be a bit twisted.
Yeah I didn't think the sad/happy walking thing was very accurate... at all.
Quote from: YakSpit on Fri 14/10/2005 05:21:11
It's not a horrible reference, but if you read the page, you'll see it's not mocap.
Clicking on "Info" tells me:
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It is based on walking data from 40 male and 40 female walkers. Using a motion capture system their movement were recorded while walking on a treadmill.
I like it, thanks for the link!
light/female/nervous/sad almost looks like a dance :D
Quote from: King_Nipper on Fri 14/10/2005 20:01:50
light/female/nervous/sad almost looks like a dance :D
White boy dance.
Quote from: strazer on Fri 14/10/2005 19:58:48
Clicking on "Info" tells me:
True enough, I missed that bit. But in the lengthier homepage, they explain that the attributes aside from the main walkcycle incorporate viewer opinion as to which is happier, heavier, more nervous, etc. I'm debating using the points on a basic 3d model and seeing how good the walkcycles look.
There, y'see. I think I'd fall over if I did this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/EggHeadCheesyBird/fallover.gif)