Giving Personality to Procedural Animations using Math
t3ssel8r
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It’s been a while since the last video hasn’t it? I’ve made quite a bit of progress since the last update, and since one of the things I worked on was some procedurally animated characters, I decided to make a video about the subject. In particular, this video highlights the entire process from initial motivation, to the technical design, technical analysis, and game design considerations.
Codeer’s video on procedural animation:
Twitter thread about rope animation:
Semi-implicit Newton’s Method:
Verlet Integration:
Pole-Zero Matching:
Math animations made using the community-maintained version of manim:
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:43 second order systems
7:03 implementation
8:55 testing
9:50 stability
13:30 conclusion
Music:
lofi geek – give me
lofi geek – souls
lofi geek – real
lofi geek – two lifes
lofi geek – lights
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25.08.2023
I'm glad you shared this video. It's always refreshing to see real feedback and more content about these mechanics.
i have a question… ¿ This math codes can be used in Unity and Godot engine?
Very Cool…
Now hand over the code… or else.
-> be a control engineering student
-> tired from exams
-> decided to chill and watch youtube
-> random video contains state-space equations
-> pain
how I wish this thought was teach in high school and just pretend that our global position is also the same in Math position of X/Y and Z axist hahaha though I don't understand math at all because I have a stupid memory , I forgot every operation and solution lol even in fraction and simple term and operation of multiplying is already gone in my tiny brain
name of the game that appears in the beginning of the video?
@guinxu con esto matas a alva
did not understand a single thing other than maybe fps lag causes stretchiness. but sick video the math you did here is impressive.
Ah yes, rain world ai.
After attempting pre-cal my first semester of college I swapped from a chemistry major to an English major. Math only made sense in the science classes, and I had some rough education on the basic principals of geometry that made mathematics of that ilk really difficult to understand.
I love this though. I had looked at procedurally generating animations for the game I’m working on (I ended up using a bunch of simple tween instead) and this makes me even more interested in that possibility for future drafts.
I may see about brushing up on some more advanced math soon. I’m constantly putting my most advanced algebra skills (and my memory of high school math 😅) to the test when I code. It might be nice to have the tools that would allow me to progress further.
Cooooool procedural animation！Could do you give some code example? =v=
the ugliness and depreciation of pixel art.
This is so epic. You did unbelievingly awesome job. Much better than I do. I can't wait for more of your videos. Keep up the great work.
– Dan
This is an exceptionally beautiful and very helpful educational video.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this guide. It came at the exact right time for me. Amazing that you sat down to make such a good explanation of something so difficult to understand.
This is a very helpful video in explaining the Euler method in general as well as the basics of control systems.
Amazing!
Where can we play your game?
i've been studying to one day understand this video well
Uhhh damn this is awesome. Did you create your own C++ math library for this?
Using the eigenvalues of the A matrix of the dynamical representation of the system was genius. Brilliant
Im here because of a particular comment on a Video about math maybe I can find something here to make what the comment said come to life Im going to call it e×iπ and it will be a mathematical game similar far but similar to a game called graphwar and you will play as a stickman using creativr equations to fight off the enemy and at the end befriend the enemy and exit the game the main plot or way that makes the players keep playing is the many combinations of equations and mathematical formulas involved.
Watching this video reminded me why i didn't take computer. graphics at university, mind morphing magic… beautifully illustrated by this robot! I love the robot… please tell us what the game is called?
What did you use for the pixelized render? The graphic is interesting!
It was an amazing video
ok whatever but I think inertia is optional in not photorealistic games
Wow the game looks stunning
Now why didn't they explain in school that these equations, matrices, solving for x, etc. really DID have a use. They were always like "it's more useful than you think" instead of "look at this video". Might've got more people to actually pay attention. What a wonderful video. 10/10 helpful. Thank you 🙂
What an amazing video, thank you so much for uploading it
I never thought I'd see control system theory in games.
I've thought about this kind of thing, what if I didn't have to animate every frame far down the line if i make a game. This is basically it in words and fully explained.
Just implemented this in Unreal, increible tutorial, the motion of the robot character its just something else. Thank you for sharing. I was missing this node from VVVV.
Oh my I saw my basic control theory professor's face here
@t3ssel8r Would you be willing to share your final code as well as the Unity editor you show in the video?
this melted my brain, my math game is too weak for this video
I don't have an engineering or a CompSci degree so Dumb dumb question but I'm getting errors on cosh and Vector what am I missing??
My brain is not good rn
I learned this as an electrical engineer, can't believe I still have to be tormented by it as a game dev
this is just so cool
Giving a semblance of personality that is good enough for the people who would confuse the two.
Thank you so much. This worked like a charm <3
Who are you people? how do you learn these skills to the level that you even explain it that easy to others? I probably need to study another 4 years just to be that good !
aah man, I should have paid attention in college, this stuff is kinda cool
giving curve interpolation between A and B
Why no 2nd order equation for the X term?
My control systems module was finally worth it! Now I can understand the maths in a random yt video!
The time domain and Space State are one of the many tools you could use for the same purpose. Another way, could be to desing a digital filter (maybe low pass filter) than may match the expected output.
The critical T is the maximum sampling time required for the algorith to function properly. The best you can do when the sampling frequency (1/T) is reduced is not to change second order system but to create a feedback controller that may always stabilize the output. This is a separate system and it could be easier than changing the system from its coeficient. What I meant is do not change the system, but use a automatic feedback control system to fix the problem for you. A typical, well known is the PID controller that is fairly easy to desing. Maybe it could help you to get the solution you want with less memory or computation impact.
This sounds exactly like the functions used for determining the strength of response from a heating system to the change in temperature in large automation air conditioning systems in large buildings, to make sure that we get to the target temperature quickly, but without causing a vibration-like fluctuation in the temperature that lasts a long time. One term is derivative (strength of response is the derivative of what we are trying to control) and the other is integrative (strength of response is the integration of the difference between the desired value and current value over time) and by using multipliers for each we get pretty much exactly the kind of behavior that you are getting here (there might've been a third, constant term too). That algorithm results in the amount of heating that has to be applied, so in case of movement, it would produce forces.
The reason I'm saying this, is because the algorithms for producing the forces are much less complicated than what you are having to calculate and since it produces forces, it can be used directly with the physics engine in unity. Since that application is pretty old too, the field has come up with formulas that can be used to calculate the multipliers based on how the system behaves, so all the end user wouldn't even have to figure those out, just pick out a type of behavior from a list and the system could calculate the multipliers for them (unless they wanted to control them).
Unfortunately I only know those things in my own language and can't find a direct reference to what I'm talking about. Anyway, if you wish to make a version of this that is usable by the physics engine and a bit simpler, that is where the solution can be found 🙂
For FAQ and a deeper discussion on this video, check out the writeup:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/procedural-video-82487305