CADIA's Panda3D Realizer now in SmartBody

[amarshal]

Just wanted to let everyone know I finally got the work by Hannes and his students at CADIA into the SmartBody repository. Its still in a branch, and has not yet been updated to the latest copy of SmartBody.  I hope to have that complete by the end of the year. (And yes, you can quote me on that!)

https://smartbody.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartbody/branches/reykjavik-200805/

Build SmartBody using the usual Visual Studio 2008 and the vs2008.sln file.  Then you can run core/PandaBMLR/Run_Demo.bat.

Let the list know if you have any problems.

I still recommend controller developers to work within the trunk, but application developers will probably be interested in the Panda3D environment.


Anm

[ahill]

We have modified the BMLR code quite a bit and added several features such as viseme support (through morph targets).
We also modified the version of SmartBody they used to implement a "grasp" tag that allows the character to grab pawns in the scene and then release them.
We also modified the code to allow the "emit" tag to pass all XML child nodes down to Panda3D for use in controlling actions in the virtual environment (i.e. turning off a light).
We would like to contribute this code at some point.
We are still working on some changes to sbm_speech_audiofile.cpp that allow placing mark times within text utterances.
(we didn't care for the utterances.xml file method being used and it seemed it had not been used in the context of BML)
Given the well contained nature of these changes, I think you can make your own choice as to whether they are integrated before or after you update the code base.

[amarshal]

Just a note, the Panda3D code has been merged into the SmartBody trunk for a couple of months now.  Let us know if there are any problems or questions, as the code is outside our usual test cycle.