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Animation: A Little Chat

16Apr08

To keep you waiting while we keep working on our virtual receptionnist, here is a little video that shows some improvements in terms of animation.

If you remember the video of the blog post Chatting With Hotep Milena, this video is pretty much the same, but this time Hotep seems much more alive…
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Hide & Seek Behavior

31Mar08

Once more a video from Second Life, this time showing Hotep Milena configured with a Hide & Seek behavior. It really is a very basic hide behavior, with very simple rules. She is trying to hide behind one of the two rocks: the farthest from my own avatar (Chnoum Milena).

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Chatting with Hotep Milena

26Mar08

Here is a short video of a little chat with Hotep Milena, the receptionnist on our island. As you can notice there are a couple of things to improve: she speaks a little bit too fast, and she is too static. But I’m confident that she will learn quickly…

As I am writing you won’t actually [...]


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Bringing Life to Virtual Worlds

20Mar08

I noticed a problem on most islands in Second Life, specially on corporate islands: they are empty. Not empty in the way that there is nothing on them: they are usually nicely designed, with nice buildings, terraces and gardens. But there is nobody, no other avatars, and nothing to interact with. Maybe a panel [...]


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