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Autonomous Characters

Autonomous Characters. Professor: Bill Tomlinson Fall 2003 Tuesdays 3-5:50pm HIB 335 Meeting 3. State of the Union. We’ve covered the two big topics that we’ll be addressing this semester.

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Autonomous Characters

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  1. Autonomous Characters Professor: Bill Tomlinson Fall 2003 Tuesdays 3-5:50pm HIB 335 Meeting 3

  2. State of the Union • We’ve covered the two big topics that we’ll be addressing this semester. • Still lots of things to come, but we’ll be focusing throughout on the link between computer code and animation.

  3. Go Over Assignments • Any troubles getting things to compile? • Other questions?

  4. Go Over Readings • Lasseter – Other approaches to animation?

  5. Go Over Readings • Picard/Wilson – Emotional modeling. Too simplistic?

  6. Go Over Readings • Burke/Tomlinson – Any questions about the system?

  7. Go Over Readings • Stein – any code questions?

  8. Action Selection – Why? • Make a list of reasons that animate entities need to choose different actions

  9. Behavior • Connection between stimulus and response

  10. Learning • Connection between an action and consequences

  11. Behavioral change over time (over different time scales) • Action • Learning • Development • Learning

  12. Emotional change over time • Emotion • Mood • Personality

  13. The Craft of Acting • Making decisions appear meaningful. • Connecting actions and emotions.

  14. Drama • Action selection • Showcasing that action selection – staging, lighting, responses from other actors, etc.

  15. Action Selection – How? Once we decide what we want it to do, how do we code that? Finite State Machine: Make a graph Behavior-Based AI – layered behaviors – Make a tree

  16. Action Selection – An Example Vec3 myPos = new Vec3(); this.getPosition(myPos); if (myPos.mag() <20) { SoundSystem.play( "w:/sound/beep.wav"); }

  17. Perception • What can people sense?

  18. Perception • What can the characters sense?

  19. Perceivable things • Come up with a list of environmental things that might provoke emotional change.

  20. Some other things you’ll need to know about…

  21. Conditionals • if (something) { do this;}

  22. Vectors • Vec3, in particular • Similar to a point, but more active. • Represents what you have to do to one point in order to change it into another point. • Vec3.add(a, b, c); • Vec3.sub(a, b, c); • thisVec3.mag();

  23. Navigation • navSys.goTo(camPos); • Will walk emotively • sets “action” when .goTo is called, so be careful not to replace it with some other action later.

  24. Play a sound • SoundSystem.play("w:/sound/beep.wav");

  25. Rules on copying code • Cut and paste reuse is fine with me, as long as you understand what the code is doing. • Please put comments in your code to show me that you understand. • Black-box behavior

  26. Some code examples:Get position of camera • public Vec3 camPos = new Vec3(); • camPos.setValue(CameraSystem.getPosition()); • System.out.println(“CamPos is “+camPos);

  27. Some code examples:Get position of other character • Vec3friendsPos=newVec3(); • research.World.getWorld().getCreature( "PersonACE_01 number 0").getPosition(friendsPos); • System.out.println("PersonACE_01 number 0's pos = "+friendsPos);

  28. Some code examples:Get distance from me to other character • Vec3 distanceBetweenUsVec = new Vec3(); • Vec3.sub(myPos, friendsPos, distanceBetweenUsVec); • double distanceBetweenUsDouble = distanceBetweenUsVec.mag(); • System.out.println(“Distance between us is “ + distanceBetweenUsDouble);

  29. Assignment 3 • Program character to have an emotional response to its environment. Attach emotional change to some perceivable phenomenon.

  30. Emotional assignment happiness = .5; OR this.getPosition(myPos); happiness = myPos.x(); OR …

  31. Assignment 3 • Don’t forget comments, println.

  32. Readings for Oct 21 • Braitenberg (handout) • Acting - Cohen (handout) • Vectorpark (link) • Stein (Ch 4)

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