Next Gen Engine revealed, totally...and I don't say this often...Awesome



More : http://www.t3.com/news/new-the-division-trailer-shows-off-next-gen-snowdrop-engine

I posted this at AiDreams but I feel chuffed with myself so thought I would share it here. Here's the blurb I posted at Dreams...

Got a bit further today. I was up late last night getting my morphing code to be able to combine morphs as I already had single morphs working. And today I finished it off and optimised the code a little bit.

In my code I first load a 'neutral' model/mesh. The morph targets are the same model but in a different shape - eg with one eye closed or smiling. I take the difference between the neutral mesh and the morph target and add that to a buffer (also accounting for the strength of the morph). This is done with each active morph so that you end up with a compound mesh of all morphs then you display it.

I have manual sliders off screen to the left (you can see me mousing them about) . So this morphing is being done live. When a slider changes it changes the weight of the morph or in other words it's level of influence on the neutral mesh.

Cracking the multiple morphs was a really good feeling. I see now how much work has gone into things like Haptek. They were ahead of the game a long time back. But finally years later I have maybe learnt enough to start building my own animation and morphing system.

The first of this seasons things I've seen that actually made me smile...



Bah humbug, feeling happy now. I know, how dare he put an advert for something directly after a good bit. That's better, feeling grumpy again.

This is a very thought provoking piece I think (Note, it's from BBC future so will need a proxy server if accessing from the UK).

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131201-how-to-set-up-home-in-space

Next geration USB is coming:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25222101

SpaceX have delivered their first commerial satellite to orbit, at a substantial reduction in cost to the current duopoly of Arianespace and IPL:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25210742

I thought this was a hoax, but it appears that it is for real...



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