[x3d-public] Purpose of X3Dng -- Animation

[Joe D Williams]

Hi Leonard,

http://realism.com/blog/purpose-x3d-animation.

There are a few nuggets of some important general stuff mixed in with 
a poor and uninformed view of the industry and what X3D HAnim can do. 
My opinion is you are not even close to understanding what it is and 
about what is really going on with data used to build and animate a 
humanoid or any other skeletal creation.

How about actually using an X3D browser that does HAnim, the best is 
BSContact (it used to be that Flux was as good as BSContact) or 
instant, or any browser using the prototypes we have, and extend 
yourself to read some of the example code for Segment geometry and 
skin geometry examples and the actual rigging and animation steps 
before you write in an authoritative manner. You're understanding is 
very incomplete and even wrong about details in the article.

Try the X3D features, read the spec, and actually try some example and 
you will see X3D is not as incomplete as you think.

HAnim is not that easy to understand, as you have shown in your 
article. However, X3D HAnim is logical and completely the way it is 
done everywhere. So, quit making remarks about what X3D doesn't do at 
least until you actually do something with what we have.

The only thing you showed in this article is that you haven't read the 
HAnim spec, you have not used the X3D HAnim to build a character, have 
not looked at any X3D HAnim examples, have not even tried to build 
anything close to an operating HAnim yourself, have not really 
understood how those animation authoring systems work, and finally you 
haven't even asked anyone any meaningful questions about the basic 
technology.

Of course I am open to discussing what is HAnim and how we do it. Just 
ask.

All Best,
Joe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leonard Daly" <Leonard.Daly at realism.com>
To: "X3D Public" <x3d-public at web3d.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:04 AM
Subject: [x3d-public] Purpose of X3Dng -- Animation


> My next post on the topic is up at
> http://realism.com/blog/purpose-x3d-animation. This is an 
> explanation of
> how animation is done using rigged models and why it is important to
> include it standard X3D. It does not include node proposals - that 
> will
> take further research and discussion.
>
>
> -- 
> *Leonard Daly*
> 3D Systems & Cloud Consultant
> LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chair
> President, Daly Realism - /Creating the Future/
>


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