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Subject: Re: [Kde-games-devel] Animated sprites in KDE Games (was Granatier)
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: 2009-09-14 17:54:21
Message-ID: h8m00d$qaa$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Ian Wadham wrote:
> Blender (a 3-D modeler) has good support for animation art. You can
> give a figure a skeleton (called an armature, for some reason).
Wiktionary defines armature as "(5) A supporting framework in a
sculpture"... and I believe the term is also used in animatronics.
Besides, it really isn't a skeleton, it is a tree of IK joints. I can't
say I've seen IK ribs yet ;-). So really, "armature" is a more correct term.
> So, if you want animated sprites in SVG the artist must draw every
> frame individually.
Which is the way things have been done up until Half Life, after all,
and how "effects" are /still/ done if they aren't using particle
systems. (And last I checked, frame-based fireballs still look better
than anything you could produce real-time on a typical desktop with
currently known algorithms.)
It does mean a lot of work for walking animations, though, especially if
you want enough frames for smooth motion.
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Matthew
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