Yes! To me, animation technology is the most interesting part of game programming - in fact, my old game Black Shades consisted almost entirely of animation tech ( click here for a video)! For Overgrowth, at first I tried making all of the animation procedural, as you can see in this old video, but eventually I realized that it doesn't give us enough control. Can we make our own cool animation technology? While the technology shown in games that use Euphoria is definitely a step up from limp ragdolls, it's certainly not the revolutionary sea-change that the press heralded it to be. Here is the official Lucasarts video showing off this dubious 'feature': Penny Arcade even made a comic parodying their indiscriminate grasping.
Similarly, in The Force Unleashed game, the only physically-based behavior I could see is magnetic hands - the stormtroopers' hands stick to anything they encounter. For example, here is a video of how fighting looks in an Indiana Jones game using Euphoria. The animation in games that use Euphoria bears little resemblance to the slick, organic movement in their tech demo video. However, if you have millions of dollars, you can hire NaturalMotion to integrate some physically-active animations into your game. Instead, NaturalMotion has close co-development relationships with publishers and development teams to integrate Euphoria into their next-generation titles."Įuphoria, as the cohesive product that has been presented to the public, does not exist.
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Their website now states that Euphoria is not a software package, but more of an animation consulting service. When we asked them for further information, they responded with, "Euphoria is currently not available to the public, we only have deals with a very limited amount of publishers and quite frankly I assume it would be much too expensive for what you are doing, sorry."
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That sounds great! So how do you license it?
Their claims were quite impressive, and the brand-name "Euphoria" was swept into the public eye by the media blitz for Grand Theft Auto 4 and The Force Unleashed.
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