How to design a character animation system?

Posted by Andrea Benedetti on Game Development See other posts from Game Development or by Andrea Benedetti
Published on 2012-05-03T16:19:32Z Indexed on 2012/12/15 17:19 UTC
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I'm searching for suggestions and resources on the possible ways to design a character animation system. I mean a system built on top of the graphics engine (as graphics engine I use Ogre3D, that provide an animation layer), and in strict contact with the logic of the game.

It's for a sports title, so the question is not easy.

Edit: What I'm searching for are suggestions and resources about the action state mechines (or animation state machines), that is build on top of the animation pipeline already provided by the graphics engine. So, a state-driver animation interface for use by virtually all higher-level game code.

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