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Skeletal animation or rigging is a technique in computer animation in which a character (or other articulated object) is represented in two parts: a polygonal or parametric mesh representation of the surface of the object, and a hierarchical set of interconnected parts (called joints or bones, and collectively forming the skeleton), a virtual ...
Z-fighting which cannot be entirely eliminated in this manner is often resolved by the use of a stencil buffer, or by applying a post-transformation screen space z-buffer offset to one polygon which does not affect the projected shape on screen but does affect the z-buffer value to eliminate the overlap during pixel interpolation and comparison ...
OBJ (or .OBJ) is a geometry definition file format first developed by Wavefront Technologies for The Advanced Visualizer animation package. It is an open file format and has been adopted by other 3D computer graphics application vendors.
For real-time rendering, this value (or more commonly the irradiance, which does not depend on local surface albedo) can be pre-computed and stored in a texture (called an irradiance map) or stored as vertex data for 3D models. This feature was used in architectural visualization software to allow real-time walk-throughs of a building interior ...
If multiple surfaces face towards the camera, then additional use of methods such as Z-buffering or the Painter's algorithm may be necessary to ensure the correct surface is rendered. Back-face culling is typically quite a cheap test, only requiring a dot product to be calculated, and so it is often used as a step in the graphical pipeline that ...
Blocking is an animation technique in which key poses are created to establish timing and placement of characters and props in a given scene or shot. [1] This technique is most commonly used in 3D computer animation, where it is sometimes referred to as Stepped animation.
TEXTURE.GBX – Info about a texture that are used in materials. MATERIAL.GBX – Info about a material such as surface type that are used in Solids. TMEDCLASSIC.GBX – Block info. GHOST.GBX – Player ghosts in Trackmania and TrackMania Turbo. CONTROLSTYLE.GBX – Menu files. SCORES.GBX – Stores info about the player's best times.
Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to stop motion techniques, but using 3D models, and traditional animation techniques using frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations. For 2D figure animations, separate objects (illustrations) and separate transparent layers are used with or without that virtual skeleton.