Re: [TuxKart-devel] Character Animation?

[Charles G. <ch...@ve...>]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 17:55 +0200, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> Does anybody have some ideas on how we should handle character
> animation? Should we use simple frame based animation or use bones and
> keyframes, probally by using Cal3d.

For performance reasons I would have thought simple frame based
animation would be the only thing we could consider.

I know part of the idea is to update TuxKart so that it takes advantage
of more modern hardware (3D cards etc), but we really don't want it to
get to the point where you need a GHz machine to play it.

Then again, this is a bit of an ignorant reply as I cannot atest to the
performance impact of any bones/keyframes technique or Cal3d.  I'm just
airing my concern that PCs that are not aged but not beautifully new
(Celeron 733, 256megs, GeForce2) can run TuxKart.  (This is not me being
selfish, I intend to upgrade in the next 3-6 months so doesn't directly
affect me, but I know many people with computers of similar capability.)
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- Charlie

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