Paul McComas

@anorangeduck Mobu should do better exporting bvh…but also bvh is a terrible format that I keep as far away from as possible

MotionBuilder aggressively rounds floats when it exports BVH files. Unfortunately it doesn't keep enough precision to losslessly encode euler angles close to gimbal. Here is the result of exporting and then re-importing as BVH. You can see the kind of shaking artefacts it makes.

Some solid physics ragdoll reference here. Humans are surprisingly elastic… youtu.be/Q9zIdVPtHmU?si…

@lightbombmike @richard_oud Unfortunately won’t be at GDC this year. However Christian will be there to enjoy!

@lightbombmike @richard_oud Congrats Mike, I look forward to reading it!

@h4kr Those darn privacy policies for Canada and Europe getting in the way of our corporate overlords I guess

support.google.com/bard/answer/14… not in the backwater of Canada apparently 🤨

@h4kr On web or something else? Like is Webm any good?

Admittedly, the entirety of everything I know about video codecs I learned in the last two hours, but wow! what a mess. \

@Diehlbreaker @PlayGOALS Awesome to see the progress! I’m looking forward to seeing how dribbling progresses.

Making a gameplay-first sports game ain't no f'n joke. Here's a deep dive into the animation systems we are building here at @PlayGOALS Check out full video: youtube.com/watch?v=Ef7UtK… Come work with me: tt.playgoals.com/jobs/2925577-s… #gamedev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

@villeruusutie Congrats Ville! Looking forward to trying it out

Huh this is crazy 🤯

I tried the Final Fantasy XVI demo and while so much of it is top notch (visuals, grandeur, etc…) when one element is so much worse than others it really pulls you out of the experience. Did they really look at core loco and say, “yup that’s good enough”? youtu.be/p9O9TmerReU

Example-based Motion Synthesis via Generative Motion Matching paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2306.00… present GenMM, a generative model that "mines" as many diverse motions as possible from a single or few example sequences. In stark contrast to existing data-driven methods, which typically require long offline training time, are prone to visual artifacts, and tend to fail on large and complex skeletons, GenMM inherits the training-free nature and the superior quality of the well-known Motion Matching method. GenMM can synthesize a high-quality motion within a fraction of a second, even with highly complex and large skeletal structures. At the heart of our generative framework lies the generative motion matching module, which utilizes the bidirectional visual similarity as a generative cost function to motion matching, and operates in a multi-stage framework to progressively refine a random guess using exemplar motion matches. In addition to diverse motion generation, we show the versatility of our generative framework by extending it to a number of scenarios that are not possible with motion matching alone, including motion completion, key frame-guided generation, infinite looping, and motion reassembly.

@h4kr @BruceDawson0xB Well you don’t get to be the most shorted bank in the world by having a best in class web site reuters.com/world/americas….

@BruceDawson0xB It's always the cookies and indexeddb state!

@Diehlbreaker @anorangeduck Yah

@sucktime @anorangeduck Cubic interpolation is used on the animation data while replaying the skeletal animation?

A short blog post on doing cubic interpolation of quaternions: theorangeduck.com/page/cubic-int…

Waiting for my flight to GDC and over hearing a conversation where the phrase “it’s just not part of my brand” was used multiple times. My eyes can’t roll back into my head any further…. 🙄

JC is a great presenter and this talk has some good tips for those that want to make their own motion matching system! First GDC in a few years for me.

@paulsdutton This is the content I came here for! Hahahah

@anorangeduck It's like my velocity blend! Nice. Cool trick with the slerp shortest arc glitches fixup though.

Today a blog post in which our character throws some crazy shapes on an alternative method of inertialization sometimes called "dead blending". theorangeduck.com/page/dead-blen…

The character creation tool in Wild Hearts is amazing. So much control and detail. Really well done.

@JimJagger @lightbombmike @AnimState I was hoping to attend... not sure if that is pro/con for you🤣

I’ve been enjoying replaying GTA IV recently on the steam deck, an amazing and wonderful experience… however the offline mode is *horrible*. Rockstar is making it genuinely worse than it needs to be. But basically offline mode for GTA doesn’t work and it makes me very sad.