J u s t a T o u c h o f F u n k (a little bit) by Digital Murder Code name: Project P.Y.T v1.1 --------------------------------------- Introduction Party: Luky Tigrou Party IV (LTP4) Party place: Crosnes (France) Ranking: First Release date: 08/27/2000 Final version:15/12/2002 This is our third demo. We have started this demo a year and a half ago. The end has been difficult, working at night after work at Alias's home during 2 monthes. Thanks to our Girlfriend, Carole and Ce'cile to support us. ---------------------------------- Hardware required To see this demo you need: * A p250 Mhz mmx CPU or more. * 64 Mo of ram. * A sound card. * A 2d card with directx 3.0 for software. * A 3d card with directx 6.0 for hardware. This demo has been coded on a p233 mmx under windows95 with 128 Mo of ram, a matrox mystic and a simple 3dfx :), yes it is! ----------------------------------- Current Versions Just a Touch.exe (15/12/2002) * Tested under Win95, Win98, WinMe, WinNt4 and Win2000. Software render and support for Direct3d hardware (not under WinNt4). This demo is distributed under the GNU GPL. Other version will come soon. We hope this demo will be runnable on all 32 bits systems. You want to port this demo under another OS? hulud@hulud.org -------------------------------------------- Credits Hulud: Concept, Code, Lips sync, Hiphop animations. Alias: 3d modeling, texturing, animations, design. Lakick: First choregraphy conception. Music: "ShakeIt" performed by LA Connection (1983). --------------------------------- Additional Credits Sed: Porting code. Antoine Viau: Font tool. ----------------------------------------- Code notes Technical features: * Hardware & software support * Multiresolution (software & hardware) * Multitexturing (hardware) * Perspective correct mapping * 24 bits lightmaps (software & hardware) * MMX code (lightmaps, layers) * Spans buffer (software) * Skinning * Morphing * Lips sync * Complex animations * Mp3 player * Portable (full C++ version of the demo) * Screen saver * Bubbles mode Libraries used: * FMod for mp3 decompression * Zlib for compression * Jpeglib to read bitmaps * Direct3d for hardware ----------------------------------------- Gfx notes Animations: ----------- Animations are a mix between original (hand made), and motion capture. Big motions like choregraphies and hiphop sequences are originals. Motions captures are used in walks and simple dances. The main animations have been rotoscoped from videos. We don't have used any motion capture devices for this demo. Animations have taken to us a lot of time. For exemple: Hulud has spend 3 weeks at night to make the 3 hiphop motions. Alias has spend 4 days at night to make the first choregraphy. Lips sync: ---------- Hulud has made the lips sync using a shareware called Magpie v0.9. This is a lips sync notpad. All has been made by hand, no automation. 3 tracks of lips sync have been written: * Leader * Boys * Girls ---------------------------------------- Hulud words This version should be final. Hardware now works, sound bugs have been fixed. 32 bits and trilinear filtering have been added. Some scenes have been updated. The mp3 has been reencoded in the final version (not in the patch). Now we will work on a Linux version. In the future, this demo should be runnable on all 32 bits operating system we can access. Hulud. ---------------------------------------- Alias words Hi everybody and thanks for supporting us. We were glad to present you our third demo "Just a Touch of Funk (a little bit)" at the LTP4. It's been a long time that we want to bring out a demo with a lot of features in it. We wanted to make a new kind of demo well designed, with complex motions and effects. A demo not too usual. I esspecially made the environment and characters carefully to give a new dimension at the demo. Some of you asked us if the characters were animated with motion capture. The main motions is rotoscoped animations, key by key with Biped and using the motion flow; I used some MoCap data to fill gaps. We'd like to add more scenes, characters and many other stuff but we were short in time and maybe resources. I would like to thank my girlfriend to have stood me during the making of. I still remember we worked all the evenings while she was looking for movies, having some fun and joking with friends :o). The life wasn't so easy everyday ! she came at the demoparty (isn't that so meganne ?) but the showers were cold, ouch!!! After all, what is done is done, and well done i hope. it's worth making this type of things because we love to do it. I would like to thank too, the organizers (yes, don't go away!), and those taking part in the demonstration and a special "applause" to the Mayor who has lend the room....the hot room :o] Bye. Alias. ------------------------------------------- Contacts For any reason you have: Hulud: hulud@digital-murder.org alias: alias@digital-murder.org sed: sed@free.fr lakick: lakick@citeweb.net -------------------------------------- Word Wide Web Please, take a look at: http://www.digital-murder.org * Dm's homepage http://hulud.digital-murder.org * Hulud's homepage http://alias.digital-murder.org * Alias's homepage http://sed.free.fr * Sed's homepage ------------------------ Thanks, greatings and hello Everybody at Nevrax, Everybody at Delphine Software, Everybody at Microïds, Everybody at Virtools Ace, Arrakis, Atc, Benji, Boz/Gmf, Chandra, Chubaka, Cyg, Darwin, Danube, Djam, Guille, Exo, Juge Miguel, Jylam, LightShow, Made, Mars, Med, MrBee/Overlander, Nytrik, Ntsc, Oliver, Rez, SilentBob, Skal, Surfufu, Tom, Traven, U2, Xbarr, Yes, ARFSTD, BLABLA, BOMB, COCOON, #DEMOFR, ECLIPSE, EXCEED, HAUJOBB, JUST FOR FUN, NOMAD, ORANGE JUICE, ORION, MELTINGPOT, MUTANT INC, SYNDROME ------------------------------------------- The end Thank for watching "Just a Touch of Funk" Digital Murder.