Sleeping Ai: get them to sleep on the ground

[Bikerdude]

sweet.

[Springheel]

That's probably usable as is. It would be easy to test by swapping out the lying on ground animations.

[Arcturus]

I uploaded the animation.

[Bikerdude]

Thanks mister.

[grayman]

Given this sequence of anims:

 

Standing->sit down->fall asleep->sleeping->wake up->stand up.

 

We have the ones in red, but aren't we still missing the others?

 

And we need code support to recognize that falling asleep in a sitting position is a different anim than falling asleep in a lying position (and the opposite sequence of waking up).

 

And we need a path node for sitting/sleeping to go with the existing one for lying/sleeping.

 

And I thought we had a bugtracker issue for sitting sleeping AI because Spring and I talked about them months ago, but I can't find one.

[Arcturus]

I can make those two animations.

[Bikerdude]

And I thought we had a bugtracker issue for sitting sleeping AI because Spring and I talked about them months ago, but I can't find one.

Have you logged one ot would you like me too..?

[grayman]

Have you logged one ot would you like me too..?

 

I haven't. Please do.

[Bikerdude]

I haven't. Please do.

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[Arcturus]

Why NPCs are sliding into their chairs when they sit down? It's not in the animations.

[Bikerdude]

Why NPCs are sliding into their chairs when they sit down? It's not in the animations.

In what way, got a video? are you sure its not the slide ditance arg that every Ai use for either sitting or sleeping.

[Springheel]

There is a sliding and rotation setting to control where the AI ends up after playing the sit_down animation (and reverse when they get up).

[Arcturus]

[Bikerdude]

Yep, its what Springs and I have thought it was.

[esme]

Just a thought on sitting/sleeping, unless the head is supported a lot of people 'nod' where the head falls slowly until it reaches a tipping point starts to fall and the sleeper jerks to catch it, sometimes waking themselves in the process, also unless the jaw is supported a lot of people sleep open mouthed when sitting.

 

Probably a bit OTT

[Springheel]

It's probably not crucial to have fall asleep/wake up animations. The sleeping animation isn't so different from regular sitting that there would be much of a jump going straight to 'stand up' when the ai is alerted. And vice versa. While it might be nice the feature could work without it.

[Arcturus]

I uploaded sit_2_sleep_on_chair, sleep_2_sit_on_chair and modified sit_sleep_idle animations.

[Arcturus]

Rendered:

 

[Springheel]

Beautiful work! Looks fantastic, and I love the way he wakes up.

[grayman]

That looks terrific!

[Arcturus]

Thanks.

[Bikerdude]

Niiiice, work there mister.

[NeonsStyle]

I really don't think the pic of the group of sleeping Ai is at all natural. When you sleep on a chair like that,

your head will fall to the front, with a higher back, you'll slouch and head will roll to rest on shoulder and

chair back. It's always good to think in terms of how gravity effects things.

 

I think if you use the head in first generation of that group, and hands of the 2nd, you will nail it. The

slouching down and back up is perfect though.

 

I'm an artist so I'm always looking at details of what is natural or not for a human structure when posing.

 

Ven

Edited September 19, 2014 by Venus

[Springheel]

We can't make separate animations for every chair an AI might sit on. The animation has to be a good, general one that will look good in a variety of circumstances, and I think this does.

[NeonsStyle]

Well in that case the head forward and hands as in the 2nd is the best choice Spring. It's just the head is all wrong

for a sleeping person in the final image, however the first one, was much better for the head. Regardless of chair.

Edited September 27, 2014 by Venus