Re: Personalising the HA PC

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Mark, I believe the Matrox G550 card comes with some head modelling
software
designed to allow you to make your own head into precisely this sort of
agent... - you scan in a couple of photographs of your head from a couple
of
different angles, the software then converts that into a 3d model of your
head, which you can then control....

Could be worth a look....


Paul G.





>From: "Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Personalising the HA PC
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:11:21 -0000
>
>Another part on/part off topic post I guess but hopefully less volatile
>than
>recent discussions :)
>
>I want to create a custom "interface" for the HA PC. I am not
really keen
>on
>the generally available "agents" available so when building
the PC I named
>it Holly (after the computer in Red Dwarf) with it's backup named Hilly
>(his
>girlfriend IIRC). Anyway, I forget the girl's name that played Holly
after
>the sex change but ideally I want to build some kind of agent based
around
>her. Open the door to Node 0 and have her sitting in the middle of the
>screen kind of thing and maybe even appearing on the TVs around the
house
>for announcements.  Hopefully I can grab enough of her voice from the
>series
>to create a reasonable voice system with some odd as is quotes for
strange
>events.
>
>I know... it's sad ... but it is different and I have no plans to deck
the
>house out like Red Dwarf or whatever the little green ship was called
>(Starbug?) so I am not beyond hope :)
>
>I appreciate such a system would be unlikely to work with the MS Agent
>system which has it's own selection of voices but programming an custom
>system is of no great concern since I also want it to sit on a black
screen
>rather than overlaid like Agent. Burn in, yeah possibly a problem, but
one
>I
>will worry about if I manage to get the system up and running.
>
>The immediate problem is creating the graphic. I am no artist so
modelling
>the head is beyond me.  So I was wondering if there was an agent that
was
>basically just a head that I could "retexture" with an
appropriate graphic.
>Alternatively, anyone who know of any decent head models floating
around on
>the net that might suffice? I just need a head with a kind of bob
haircut
>and sufficient facial detail to be able to give it basic expressions
>through
>vertex animation.
>
>Mark.
>


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