{"id":106,"date":"2006-07-08T22:38:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-07-22T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T20:57:06","slug":"step-by-step-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Planning the first steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will build Drama Princess as a collection of components. One of the first components that we will build is the action logic. At its root a system for playing character animations based on action sequences. For starters the choice of sequence (=opportunity) will be made by user input and not by some form of artificial intelligence. Then we can<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;play AI&#8221; to test the visual effects of our theories before building any systems and<\/li>\n<li>start with the creation of animation assets early (and direct it based on the results of the tests).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The basis of the action system will be the design discussed before in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=97\">From goal to behaviour<\/a>. So it&#8217;s not just about playing animations but about going through a sequence of actions based on rules. These actions trigger both animations and changes in parameters (state, position, rotation, etc). But the focus will be on animation blending first.<br \/>\nOther elements we will want to work on will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=78\">transitions between animation sequences<\/a> and idle poses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will build Drama Princess as a collection of components. One of the first components that we will build is the action logic. At its root a system for playing character animations based on action sequences. For starters the choice of sequence (=opportunity) will be made by user input and not by some form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}