Very nice work. Excellent facial animation. With that being said, as a fast paced multiplayer shooter fan, it usually takes me six months of playing before I even take notice of characters' faces in most games. Shoot and move. As fast as possible.
haha.. ya ya.. I forgot about licensees.. Who licenses Source anyway I thought everyone and their dog, and their pet goldfish had a U3 license these days. :P Valve gives the best facials to their licensees:) all kidding aside.. I have never seen animation like that in a game. Valve ftw.
[ QUOTE ] This is some new technology that they are adding into the engine with TF2. [/ QUOTE ] um, it's always existed. Face animation tech isn't anythnig new nor practical for gameplay, anyway. TF2 is just going to play the same as before, just with a new engine smell gimmick. The novelty will die and everyone will go…
Bay Raitt works at Valve now? That's crazy. I used to visit his forums regularly, and read his tuts when he was still the mad Mirai wizard. That was a great app, too. Sad it never caught on really. There are other ones like it though, so no big D AMAZING TF2 video though. The facial animation is outstanding.
wow.. super impressed. Easiy the best facial animation i've seen in a game. But it does leave me wondering about one thing. Isn't this a fast paced multi-player FPS? I mean, I might from time to time, catch a glimpse of your awesome facial expression right before my rocket slams into your head. Seems like a lot of work for…
Cheap, do you know anything about the game? [ QUOTE ] "The novelty will die and everyone will go back to TFC (if they have it) " [/ QUOTE ] That made me lol. [ QUOTE ] "Face animation tech isn't anythnig new..." [/ QUOTE ] no but intuitive tools that are more user friendly than a 3Dapp + rig setup is what makes the facial…
Jackablade, (and CheapAlert I suppose): The facial technology they used for the video is being rolled out to the entire SDK and all the licensee's. The game will include animations used with this new technology to show what the updates are capable of. Will it make or break THIS game? No, probably not. However having this…
feel free to crawl back into your hole at any time, cheap. personally i thought the "Meet the Heavy" is the sharpest thing Valve has ever released--the timing, animation, and voice acting come together as primo entertainment. i agree with spacemonkey--though Steam is designed such that they don't even have to deal with…
(salivate) As excellent as that demo video was, what really gets me stoked is the knowledge that they are going to be updating the Source SDK when Team Fortress 2 comes out. For anyone who hasn't been following Source development, last October Valve made their SDK compatible with the Visual C++ Express compiler. That…