So cheese and monkeys aside. After 25 years as a 3D animator I've never worked in games. So from a serious perspective I simply don't understand. It's not clear to me why you aren't able to use ICE or scripts and freeze those construction connections sending only the raw assets over without ICE or scripting. What is it about this pipeline which makes that difficult?
-- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Survey - how would you do this? We'd have to add support for ICE in our exporter and pipeline management tools. We don't have resources to do that at present. If the artist doesn't clean up after himself responsibly, it creates a lot of problems. Matt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Survey - how would you do this? On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > The solution is 100% art driven in this case and cannot rely on game > engine logic or engineering resources. If it could, there wouldn't be > a challenge ;-) > > Cannot use ICE, but you can use expressions, constraints, or animation mixer > to set up and plot out to explicit controls later if you prefer. > > A junior or staff level artist must be able to setup and complete the task > unsupervised in 30 minutes or less. Must also avoid creating any bugs such > as leaving temporary data in the scene or methods that require such tactics. > Bugs that make their way into the game engine are very expensive to find, > fix, and QA. Therefore, great emphasis should be placed on technique and > working cleanly. > Sorry, I missed a bit. Why couldn't you plot animation by things driven by ICE? Don't you have to do that for expression, anim mixer, etc? I mean you don't have that in the engine either, right?
