| CSC474 - Fall 2012 |
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Alex Waas Animation - Final Project |
| ANIMATION DESCRIPTION |
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My final project is an animation including Wil E Coyote and his usual antics. He lights a rocket off, only for it to spin around uncontrollably and land right on top of him. For the technologies included in my final project, I have hierarchical modeling, skinning, forward kinematics, particle system, and path following. The wick for the rocket, is actually a hierarchical model, with about 30 different segments that are controlled by a variable. The coyote model is a skinning example, however, it is faked a bit, because of the issues with exporting to MD5. However, the original blender file is included in the archive, which does use skinning. The fire particles and "blasting off" coyote movement are simple constant velocity forward kinematics. The particle system is a simple cone emitting system, that that initializes a particle with a random set of parameters. The particle initially is fairly "yellow", then as the lifetime goes down, the particle turns more red, producing a nice fire effect between the particles. Finally, for path following, the path of the rocket is a preset array, which the program then interpolates in-between using Catmull-Rom splines. |
| PROGRAM USAGE |
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Unzip the given file and create it using "make" or "make all". In game controls are as follows: |
| SOURCES |
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Wil E Coyote model obtained from here. MD5 Model loader obtained from here. OBJ Loader is made by Ross Light |
| DEMO |
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