MMORPG'S AND MOTION CAPTURE
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MMORPGs have evolved significantly since their inception in 1991 with Neverwinter Nights. Early games had 2D graphics and slow speeds due to technological limitations. Ultima Online improved on this with 3D graphics and higher speeds. World of Warcraft was a major breakthrough, featuring fully 3D graphics and millions of players online simultaneously. More recently, games like FIFA 13 have incorporated advanced motion capture techniques like full-body suits and multi-camera head scans to create highly realistic character animations and appearances. This evolution has been driven by expanding internet speeds and more powerful computers over the past decades.
MMORPG'S AND MOTION CAPTURE
- 1. MMRPG’S & MOTION CAPTURE (MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ROLE PLAYING GAMES) By Isaac Tingey
- 2. BRIEF HISTORY MMRPGS (Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games) these are games that are played socially online with friends or strangers. These types of games allow you to create appearances and personalities for your character within a fantasy setting. You walk around trying to survive and to pick up skills and weapons to increase your characters stats. Many forms of the genre have been created over the years but the the first to hit our slow old computer screens was Never Winter Nights in the year 1991. The next leap from this game was ‘Ultima online’ released in 1997. And let but not least we have what is arguably the biggest game ever made ‘World Of Warcraft’ released in 2004. There were other releases such as EVE and Runescape that were both played on a massive scale still to this day but these 3 seemed to be the peak of the genre throughout the years.
- 3. NEVER WINTER NIGHTSNever winter nights was the very first online game to start of the MMRPGS craze. although this game was the birth of an era it had its major downfalls. Due to the computers available when this was released the speed of the game was very slow and the graphics were very pixelated. The game run at 14KB a second and was 2D. even though the graphics were 2D they gave off a 3D illusion in some of the graphics by using layers and shading. The games background story followed from the board game ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ It was the first online digital version of the popular board game. When combat occurs gameplay switches to full- screen combat mode, in which a player's characters and enemies are represented by icons which move around in the course of battle. That was the closest to getting real life action due to computer speeds at the time. Neverwinter Nights was a co-development of AOL, Stormfront Studios, SSI, and TSR. Even though this was a break though for online games the scale of people playing it was still very small because the access of computers was much harder than the present day. The capacity of each server grew from 50 players in 1991 to 500 players by 1995 and the game peaked at only 115,000 players
- 4. ULTIMA ONLINEUltima Online was the next big step within the MMRPGS. With a improvement of up to 56Kb modem speed per second it was an improvement from its predecessor. the Online community was slightly larger to with a peak user stat of 250,00 and a whopping total of 19,540,000 hosts. The game was made by origin systems and electronic arts. Ultima Online was The first MMORPG to reach the 100,000 subscriber base, far exceeding that of any game that went before it. Ultima Online continued the tradition of previous Ultima games in many ways, but due to advancing technology and the simple fact that it was Origin's first persistent online game, there were many new game mechanics as well. The games graphics were better than its predecessors due to the computers available at the time and the 2D-3D perspective was better than ever. they angled the view of the game in a special birds eye way to show structures along with people in the perspective of flying over them. It was much better and easier to portray the 3D illusion
- 5. WORLD OF WARCRAFTWorld of Warcraft was released in 2004 with a uprising of staggering 1billion hosts to date making it the biggest online game ever made. By 2004 the age of computers was advancing quick and the game was allowed to run at a increased speed of 1000KB a second and was one of the first MMRPGS to use 3D graphics. The peak amount of users was recorded at 7,000,000 users at any one time. The development company that produced and made the game was Blizzard Entertainment. since the release of the game they have released two other versions which include different worlds and extension packs e.g more weapons and costumes. The game is all online and the map goes on for days. The user interface for this game was a risk as it changed the normal birds eye view that people were used to playing in the past and changed it to a 3D perspective in a POV angle. Due to the amount of sales it was a risk worth taking in the end. As you can see in the image on the bottom corner you can see that there is high amounts of buttons and text shown, the game takes a long time to get used to and is very complex on what you can do and play with. due to the high extent of features this is perhaps why it was so popular, as there was so much to do within the game it resulted in people never getting bored. The game got to point were some people couldn't stop playing it and would be on the game for days and described iras some sort of
- 7. DIFFERENCES IN MODEM SPEEDS OVER THE YEARS
- 8. MOTION CAPTURE FIFA 13 - 3D HEAD SCANNINGThe capture lab at EA sports HQ came up with a new idea on how to capture as much detail as possible within the game. This was called 3D head scanning. The process would be set up by placing 18 cameras rigged in a circle of this dome which would surround an athlete sitting in a chair. Giving a 3D perspective view of the the players head. With this process giving off higher detail you are left with a higher expectation and standard for making them look and move like real life. Humans are all experts at noticing things when they are slightly wrong or out of place, this could be from a facial expression or the way someone is walking, so making them seem as realistic as possible can become a more challenging exercise for the animators. When all the photos have been taken they are sent into the fifa artists where the refine the models and touch up on things like the finer details of the hair as the programme cant pick up every little detail of
- 9. MOTION CAPTURE FIFA 13 - MOTION SUITSMotion capture is a much more time efficient and professional way of doing animation. How the suits work is a set of players would get suited up into these black latex ‘Morph Suits’ with 20-30 reflective balls placed on the joints and main body parts. These players would act out scenarios within a football game and they would be recorded and transferred into 3D data into a skeleton on the computer and then that skeleton would be transferred to the fully animated characters. The players simulate things like ball control kicking and celebrations to make the game as
- 11. SOURCES• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ • http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4m-qZl0Yqw • http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a433631/motion- capture-in-games-behind-the-scenes-in-total-war-splinter- cell.html • http://www.easports.com/fifa/products