Game AI Pro 3

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Predictive Animation Control Using Simulations and Fitted Models

Ingimar Hólm Guðmundsson, Hendrik Skubch, Fabien Gravot, and Youichiro Miyake

16.1    Introduction

16.2    Getting Actors to Hit Their Marks

16.3    Simulations to the Rescue

16.4    Building an Accurate Movement Model

16.5    Runtime

16.6    Pipeline

16.7    Scaling Up

16.8    Benefits

16.9    Conclusion

References

16.1  Introduction

In the move toward more believable realism in games, animation and AI continue to play an important role. For FINAL FANTASY XV’s diverse world, one of the challenges was the large amount of different types of characters and monsters. The need for a well-informed steering solution and total freedom for each team to implement animation state graphs ...