how do you think we could use the HL2 engine besides gaming?

[Parasite]

Well if phenome recognition was built into the compression codec or whatever it could work, even if crudly. It wouldnt need to recognize every phenome, so long as it could differenciate hard sounds from soft sounds and maybe a few hard vowel sounds, and of course syllables and silence (ie no words)...For example t, sh, ch, th, k, j, could all work with the same lip formation, just as p and m could, or o, q, and , as well as some other combinations that would not get confused, then of course a few unique lip movements like f, "hard a", "hard e" and "hard o"...All in all I think you could get away with less than 10 lip formations and a simple form of syllable/phenome recognition.

But hell I would be fine with open mouth/closed mouth if it were accurate to the syllable.

 

[tfg]

just letting you know guys know what I am moving ahead with a HL2 machinima production. See this forum post:
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=28546

 

[oldagerocker]

just letting you know guys know what I am moving ahead with a HL2 machinima production. See this forum post:
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=28546

Where did the word Machinima come from? Anyone know?
Just imagine all the kids screaming down the mikes on MP in HL2, trying to make there character look funny. :x

 

[63]

Where did the word Machinima come from?

Yeah, I've always wondered where the term came from..every time I see it I;m like "Mechwarrior? wtf?"

 

[Dead-Inside]

Anyone ever played Bridge Builder? Well, now you can build your bridge and WALK ON IT!!! Haha, awesome. Maybe as a 2-ton robot and see if your bridge holds (Try jumping on its weakpoints, heh)

 

[Hyperion2010]

low cost cg movies, If someone did a mod to allow this with camera's etc. that would kick ass

 

[63]

low cost cg movies, If someone did a mod to allow this with camera's etc. that would kick ass

Machinama? <--- spelling?

 

[^Ben]

The havok engine is not phyiscally acurate so i would discount it for anything like that.

I think language teaching would be a great thing.

 

[sHm0zY]

We could make a bomb out of it...

 

[halflife24321]

we could secretly make hl3 without valve knowing and start our own valve!!!!!!!!!!!