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I like this idea. On the graphics end, it might be better to modify an FPS engine, like the DOOM3 engine. You will get better graphics, and if you are simply g
by ohyes 15y ago
I like this idea.
On the graphics end, it might be better to modify an FPS engine, like the DOOM3 engine. You will get better graphics, and if you are simply generating a TV show, you don't really need the scalability that an MMO provides. And the graphics for most failing MMOS are not that great. You could distribute the machima via a youtube like service that is specific for machima.
You might even get a completely new form of media, because it is not necessary to distribute a machima as a straight up video.
Viewing it could be like 'ghost' mode in an FPS, viewer gets to pick the angle from which the drama is watched.
If you read 'Count Zero', one of the ideas there is that going online into a 3D chat didn't really catch on until there were realistic human faces. I think this is a really insightful concept. It will be important to spend a lot of time on getting faces just right, so that humans react to them in the same way that they react to actors.
Looking at a human face is a really big part of TV viewing for a lot of people. We are conditioned to be attracted to them.
- thristian 15y agoIf you read 'Count Zero', one of the ideas there is that going online into a 3D chat didn't really catch on until there were realistic human faces. One of the characters in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson mentions that accurate modelling of human facial expressions was a key component in the success of that world's VR environment. Fictional anecdotes are even less like data than real-life anecdotes, but I think it says something that when humans try to annotate text with emotions, faces are the closest graphical analogue: :) :( O_o
- phaus 15y agoThis is a great idea too. I replied above but I had forgotten that Id software open sourced the Doom 3 engine.
- rdl 15y agoYeah, this would be like a 3d version of xtranormal. Being able to get voice work done by actors over the Internet or use text to speech, too. Maybe you could do chroma key work at home or in local studios too, and progressively upgrade production values over time if a given show or series works out well.