Nicole animated some additional gestures that Libo requested: yes/no head gestures, fidgeting, giving an item to someone, and receiving an item from someone.
They can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQUcJTJwqu4
(She would embed the video, except Youtube changed their layout slightly and Nicole can't find the new embed link.)
She also tweaked the animations so they all begin and end in the same pose (which should simplify the transitions between them) and ran her script on each of them so she could give the control point files to Omar. This is part of the pre-computation, and only needs to be done once for each animation, unless the animation is changed.
Omar was able to get his scripts to draw out the joint translation curves of every joint given the .gcp file passed to him by Nicole. He also modified the GUI to just include Global Bias and Tension for each joint all in one scrollable window. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like with all the joint-motions drawn out:
The reason this wasn't working before was because of the number of UI's the script was originally generating. Currently, it still "draws" joints that do not move. This has not caused any issues, though.
Omar is currently in the process of writing a script that will take the curves he's drawn and output a new file for Nicole to read. It will probably be another .gcp file because he is passing back the same information. However, it seems that there may be less control points being passed back to Nicole than were passed to Omar in the first place. He's not sure if this will affect the length of the animation. He will find out soon.
For next week...
- Nicole plans to read up on Python I/O so she can connect her part to Omar's, and finish the last few gestures that Libo requested. It would be ideal if she could also find a way to re-generate the animation curves after Omar modifies the beta splines. She has a few ideas on how she could do this in Maya.
-Omar plans to finish the script he is currently working on so that his and Nicole's parts can continue to connect.He may need to find a way to ensure that the same number of cvs are being passed back to Nicole.
-If we can get these parts connected soon, then Nelskati will also start looking at the files that Libo has given us to generate conversations. We will figure out the best way to parse through this and get all our necessary information, and then pass this into the system that we have created.
Nelskati is too tired to think of something witty tonight.
Beam me up, Nelskati.
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