Improved and optimized IK on most Dinos

[hullu hullu]

Sorry for my stupidity, but what does "IK" mean?

[His Quivzness]

I don't know what it stands for, but its the nodes on the virtual skeleton that can be moved and manipulated to make the dino seem like they're walking, chomping, swimming, flying, idling etc. Basically this means they're gonna make the movement better. Take for example the paracer who sometimes sticks his foot in his own ear if he tries to step up onto something high. And i've once seen a bronto kiss his own arse, but he was sliding down a cliff at the time.

[Hex: Oni's Plaything]

Maybe it stands for "Inverse kinematics". I don't know, I looked it up and that is what Urban Dictionary says but you can't really trust UD.

[Turbatus]

That's what it stands for, but I'm not sure what it does, although quivness seems to be on the right track

[oXYnary]

Its a CG animation term dealing with bone hierachys; bones as in moving joints/points. Ik for a real world example: Move your right and around your body with your left. Your right hand is having IK on from the left. All the points above the point being manipulated are changed.

The opposite if FK, Forward Kinetics. Its the opposite. Only things after that point being moved in the hierarchy are changed.

What they mean most likely is they are using an auto IK solver/blender that atuto attempts to adjust the dinos ligaments for the terrain from the static animations. They probably have optimized the calculations, and hopefully improved it (Ive seen a few Brontos legs get weird on some rocks).

[Greystar]

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

I don't know what it stands for, but its the nodes on the virtual skeleton that can be moved and manipulated to make the dino seem like they're walking, chomping, swimming, flying, idling etc. Basically this means they're gonna make the movement better. Take for example the paracer who sometimes sticks his foot in his own ear if he tries to step up onto something high. And i've once seen a bronto kiss his own arse, but he was sliding down a cliff at the time.

The Bronto was kissing it's arse goodbye ;).

[His Quivzness]

Originally posted by Greystar:

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

I don't know what it stands for, but its the nodes on the virtual skeleton that can be moved and manipulated to make the dino seem like they're walking, chomping, swimming, flying, idling etc. Basically this means they're gonna make the movement better. Take for example the paracer who sometimes sticks his foot in his own ear if he tries to step up onto something high. And i've once seen a bronto kiss his own arse, but he was sliding down a cliff at the time.

The Bronto was kissing it's arse goodbye ;).

i lol'd for some time when i saw it cos thats what i thought... but he made it. Then i ate him with my battle ptera...

[hullu hullu]

You mean this:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/387669574543794882/4F2880D2DF41115BF49485E8DBDA7C5EAF73AD09/

??? (Nazi mammoth, i killed it afterwards for doing this!)