Wednesday, September 08, 2004

The Nike advert, 'The Other Game' was produced using Massive to provide the 93,000 extras. 11:15:08 AM

Some new information at the Massive website. The first is 'Massive Live' (pdf) , which talks about real time generation and control of the 3D agents via a joystick and gamepad, as well as 'digital stunt agents' that are controlled by a mix of dynamics and motion capture. The other article discusses 'Ready-to-Run' agents that Massive supplies. This provides 'out-of-the-box' people to use in common crowd scenes. For example, people milling around, people walking, spectators, sword fighting, etc. 11:11:07 AM

[ Updated information available here, and here. A new download is available here. ] A new release of Io for Series 60 Symbian devices is now available. This version fixes the problem with exceptions. They now work. I've also added an interface to the phone 'Log Engine' allowing you to get details on recent calls. The example, phonelog.io shows how it can be used. Future changes will include a proper Uid for the application now that I've received one from Symbian, more libraries, getting it working on the Nokia 3650, and GUI routines. 10:01:47 AM