[sldev] Puppettering Branch

[Mike Monkowski]

Here's an idea.

The problem I see with gestures is that they have a fixed time sequence. 
  They play exactly the same way every time.  Not very cinematic.  Now 
suppose there was a HUD that had at its disposal the puppeteering 
equivalents of these gestures and a way to gang them together (master - 
slave controls) so that you could select a gesture or gang of gestures 
and use the mouse to move a slider as if it were scrubbing the timeline 
for the animation.

So, for example, if I had a hand-waving animation I could wave a little 
very slowly "Yes, I'm a princess." by slowly scrubbing the middle of the 
timeline or I could give a vigorous "Hey I'm over here! Pick me!" wave 
by scrubbing the entire timeline quickly.

You'd have to plan ahead and gang gestures appropriately since you can 
only control one timeline, but switching between gestures might not be 
too difficult.

Putting this in a HUD would mean that a lot of customization could be 
done quickly.  But, I've never built a HUD in SL, so I really don't know 
how much is possible.

Mike

Lawson English wrote:
> I think a mouse-only interface is not really an option. However, I could 
> see this being used with suitable controls, as an in-viewer animation 
> generator. With scripting, you could add custom animations in 
> near-realtime. With suitable interfaces (and not just dual Wii 
> controllers or 3D webcams, but hot keys, voice control MIDI keyboard, 
> etc) you could certainly have realtime animation.