Dev talk:Ref/GSoC/2008/Ideas

Below text was removed by me (ton). The proposal is far too ambitious and fragmented for SoC students.

GSOC 2008 Idea Human Animation combo(motion re-targeting) Small improvements to speed work flow of motion data and physics data for use on a users skeleton Currently Mo-cap data and extising skeletons are not the easiest to get to work together. Work flow for quick animating has improved with automated skeleton creation in 2.46 and the ability to skin quickly with bone heat. Having to manually edit bvh files is not practical. It would be alot better to have one skeleton driven by different motion data files. Similar to what motion builder does. The project would be to:

  1. Improve skelator(automated skeleton creation) have presets for proportions(human) --ex. Da Vinci Man
  2. Motion re-targeting: A way to quickly assign constraints from one skeleton to another(maybe using Skelator's harmonics code?) http://downloads.alias.com/mkt/gmk_motionbuilder6_character_setup_motion_editing.swf
  3. Allow easy morph between the driving mo-cap data(walk bvh changes to run bvh) Maybe this is already possible with NLA?
  4. Improve rag doll driving of users skeleton. The next version of Bullet(2.67+) will include some interesting character controls that could help with animation featherstone. http://www.bulletphysics.com/mediawiki-1.5.8/index.php?title=BulletTodo
  5. Bonus Intergrating this work (DANCE) into Blender would be very helpful as well. I believe the author wanted to put it into blender but haven't heard anymore. http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~ashapiro/