Spaghetti Character Animation

Posted on:October 23 2009

Everytime I start writing a 3D rendering framework from scratch using OpenGL or Direct3D, I can guarantee that in the beginning I'll end up with a black, empty screen, wondering for hours why it is black and not showing the 3d geometry it's supposed to render. (Usually it's a wrong matrix, missing shader or simply the light turned off).
Same for Character Animation: Every time I start writing a character animation system, I end up with something like this:

Hmpf.
Looks like some weight or joint matrix went wrong somewhere. I know I'll find the problem, but it's impressive that I'm always getting the same errors. :)

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Ahahahaha!
Believe me when I say it's pretty normal. It happens to me as well (an idiotic but common error I keep on making is forgetting to cast numeric types, which obviously cracks everything up).

On a side note - I guess that is why people keep on advocating code reusability: if it's there and it works, don't break it! ;)

NeXuS

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2009-10-23 10:05:00

...creeeeeeepyyyyyyyy...

Tazo

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2009-10-23 11:16:00

Precisely why I hate rewriting stuff from scratch, the deja-vu is intolerable! Open source & re-use FTW :)

steve

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2009-10-23 13:22:00

Anyone else think this post title suggested niko was making a game about the flying spaghetti monster?

moo

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2009-10-23 13:48:00

I don't know... it looks fine to me. (jokerp)

bug-a-lot

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2009-10-23 14:58:00

You are definitely not the wrong one. I'm writing an OpenGL renderer and each time I add some new feature, I end up bugfixing it most of the time. But it's amazing when it works the first time! :D

triton

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2009-10-23 16:08:00

looks like Spore Creator ;)

danlin

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2009-10-23 17:48:00