Pedestrian state models - Revision history

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‎The format

Fre-Ber at 22:00, 12 August 2005

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Fre-Ber at 21:52, 12 August 2005

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Fre-Ber at 21:48, 12 August 2005

2005-08-12T21:48:52Z

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The animation of a pedestrian is based on a state model. A pedestrian is always in a specific state and each state is connected to an animation sequence. For example, if the pedestrian is in the state "WALK", the animation named pedanim_womwalk.anim is looping over and over again. When something happens, the pedestrian might make a transition from one state to another. For example, if the pedestrian is about to stop, a transition from WALK to WALK_STAND is activated. When the animation sequence associated with this state is played a transition to the STAND state is activated. Then the animation sequence associated with STAND is played. This state is looping, so it plays until MM2 activates another state transition.

Some states have alternatives, for example STAND and STAND2. These two states are associated with different animation sequences to add a little variation to pedestrian behaviour. MM2 selects one of the states randomly and the alternative state uses the same transitions as the original state.

===The format===

The format is a comma separated table, each row defines one state and is constructed of the following values in this order:

* State name - String, with no whitespace, defining the name of the state.
* Animation sequence - String, the name of the animation sequence associated with this state. these are the padanim_*.anim file names without the .anim extension.
* First frame - Integer defining on which frame the animation (loop?) begins.
* Last frame - Integer defining on which frame the animation (loop?) ends.
* Y axis - Float, unknown. Perhaps a rotation angle.
* Y distance - Float, unknown. Perhaps an offset.
* Z axis - Float, unknown. Perhaps a rotation angle.
* Z distance - Float, unknown. Perhaps an offset.
* Next state - String, the name of the state that is activated when the animation sequence has played through. For a looping state, this indicates the current state.

The state names are defined by MM2, the MM2 AI engine calls only for these states. However, it might be possible to create additional transitional states, i.e. the states that are named as STATE1_STATE2. These are made to make smooth transitions from one looping state to another. It might be possible to add custom chains of such states without disrupting the AI engine.

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 Some states have alternatives, for example STAND and STAND2. These two states are associated with different animation sequences to add a little variation to pedestrian behaviour. MM2 selects one of the states randomly and the alternative state uses the same transitions as the original state.
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 The format is a comma separated table, each row defines one state and is constructed of the following values in this order: