Title:	PRODUCTION OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS INHABITED BY VIRTUAL CHARACTERS
Author(s):	Ana Paula Cláudio, João Pedro Costa, Maria Beatriz Carmo, João Miguel Carvalho
ISBN:	978-972-8939-74-8
Editors:	Yingcai Xiao
Year:	2012
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Virtual environments, physics engine, virtual characters, facial and body animations.
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	116
Last Page:	120
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Virtual scenarios inhabited by virtual humans have been used in a wide range of application areas like entertainment, industrial and military training, education, psychotherapy and medicine. However, the production of these scenarios is a task that requires considerable effort and time consumption. The aim of our work is to define a pipeline that eases the creation of such synthetic scenarios. This pipeline integrates our application which: i) reads a set of XML configuration and parameterization files, through a component we called Scene Builder, customizing the simulation; ii) has a physics engine integrated with the rendering engine that generates the synthetic environment; iii) implements a path planning and finding mechanism that allows characters to move in the synthetic environment. Besides, we conceived a semi-automatic approach for the application of identical facial and body animations to distinct models of virtual humans.
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