LoD-based locomotion engine for game characters

Abstract

Inspired by ideas from research on geometric and motion levels of detail, we generalize LoD to combine all currently novel techniques on real-time human locomotion generation. Learn from fruitful research on key-framed kinematic methods, physically-based approaches, motion capture data reuse and action synthesis of reactive articulated characters, we design and implement a tentative but viable LoD scheduler. We also developed a data-driven on-line locomotion generation system base on freely-available motion library by integrating this LoD transition scheduler into popular graphics and dynamics game engine. This paper will then give a brief overview on our experimental results and discussion on future work. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.