Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Video of EVE Online avatars walking through station

Though this may be a bit old, I still thought that you'd want to see it. I was blown away wen I saw the video. There's no date as to when CCP will be releasing this amazing feature in-game, but the wait will be worth it. The video was filmed as part of a Ten Ton Hammer interview with Magnus Bergsson, CCP's CMO. It's full of interesting (though somewhat outdated) information. To some of you this won't be news, for the others, enjoy.


Tomorrow at fmx in Stuttgart Germany, Torfi Frans Ólafsson, Technical Producer at CCP, will be speaking on this very subject: "From space ships to avatars: Adding full-body Characters to EVE Online". I wish I could get my hands on his speech or a video of his presentation. If you happen to have additional information, please feel free to post a comment and share it. Here's and excerpt on his presentation"
"Torfi will talk about the development of a hybrid motion capture and procedural character animation system being built for an upcoming EVE Online expansion, currently in development. The system will allow its players to socialize inside stations using high resolution full-body avatars."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sweet Jebus! I'm speechless... how awesome that is... I can't wait till it's up and running :D

Anonymous said...

WOW that looks *amazing!* Can't wait!!