The script based virtual actor control for interactive drama

Author

Sung, Mankyu ; Jang, Byungtae

Author_Institution

VR Res. Center, ETRI, Taejun, South Korea

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

129

Abstract

As multimedia services have been generalized, users wish to interact with service providers while converting services as desired rather than being provided with one-sided services. This paper discusses script-based virtual actor control, which is one kind of such application for interactive drama or interactive cinema. The entire system is in the client/server form, where the client generates scenario graphs, which are a type of scripts, after receiving various scenario information for developing stories from the server providing the services, and it generates and shows other scenes according to its conversation with and the action of the user, while traversing the generated graphs. Information on the movements of virtual actors are all stored in the form of files, and are animated through a motion generation engine whenever necessary, while traversing the generated scenario graphs

Keywords

authoring systems; cinematography; client-server systems; humanities; multimedia computing; virtual reality; animation; client/server system; graph traversal; interactive cinema; interactive drama; motion generation engine; multimedia services; scenario graphs; scene generation; script-based virtual actor control; service conversion; service providers; story development; user actions; user conversation; virtual actor movements; virtual reality; Animation; Artificial intelligence; Automatic control; Electronic mail; Engines; Layout; Motion pictures; Multimedia systems; Software; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.812388

Filename

812388