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Animation Tool Puts You in the Game

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the what-fun-is-that dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "A new technique could take a simple body scan and allow a user to upload it and use it as an avatar or game character. Previously an animator would have to create a skeleton inside the model and describe movement capabilities manually. In tests, an inexperienced user could produce the animations in less than 15 minutes."

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  1. Obligatory joke by ThinkingInBinary · · Score: 5, Funny

    /me makes the obligatory joke about how most Slashdot readers would probably not want a real body scan of them used as their avatar in games.

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  2. The real question is... by Reason58 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When will this technology be applied to pornography?

  3. hmm by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    A new technique could take a simple body scan and allow a user to upload it and use it as an avatar or game character. Previously an animator would have to create a skeleton inside the model and describe movement capabilities manually.

    This sounds like a complete Serkis.

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  4. Missing the point by Belgarath52 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I had the figure of a muscle-bound warrior I'd be out partying at clubs and getting girls, not playing WoW. The point of online games is to experience a different reality.

    Next step: if you don't actually know how to fight, your character can't either.

    1. Re:Missing the point by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      In that game, spell-casters would be SO screwed. Speak for yourself. ;)

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  5. Now my avatar can have a herniated disc! by myth_of_sisyphus · · Score: 5, Funny

    In accordance with my latest MRI.

    My avatar will bitch and moan and lay down a lot and take pills and flake on people and blame it on his back.

  6. Reverse the technology, make more money. by Radon360 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something tells me that there would be more of a market for technology that makes people in real life look more like their avatar, instead.

    1. Re:Reverse the technology, make more money. by Reason58 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Something tells me that there would be more of a market for technology that makes people in real life look more like their avatar, instead. They already have this invention. It's called running shoes.
  7. Re:Character Hacks by Radon360 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a similar vein, I was thinking that the next iteration of such development would calculate and assign strength, agility, stamina, etc. values for your scanned profile. Either it would encourage a movement towards improving physical fitness, or give birth to a black market for scans of people who are already physically fit.

  8. Dude! by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your back is never going to get better until you put down that boulder.

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  9. Surprised it was so long before a pr0n remark by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 5, Funny
    So "go fuck yourself" will change from an insult to a plausible suggestion. Virtually plausible, anyway. Ewww!


    (Anyone else surprised it was so long before a pr0n related comment?)

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