Animation control method for multiple participants

摘要

A computer system is used to host a virtual reality universe process in which multiple avatars are independently controlled in response to client input. The host provides coordinated motion information for defining coordinated movement between designated portions of multiple avatars, and an application responsive to detect conditions triggering a coordinated movement sequence between two or more avatars. During coordinated movement, user commands for controlling avatar movement may be in part used normally and in part ignored or otherwise processed to cause the involved avatars to respond in part to respective client input and in part to predefined coordinated movement information. Thus, users may be assisted with executing coordinated movement between multiple avatars.

主权项

1. A method of managing a computer-implemented animation process for multiple participants, comprising:
animating motion of respective ones of modeled avatars in a modeled VRU environment each independently responsive to respective ones of multiple separate command streams provided by separate clients to a host computer; initiating a coordinated motion sequence at the host involving the modeled avatars, wherein the coordinated motion sequence simulates voluntary cooperative movements of the avatars in response to a selected one of the multiple separate command streams; animating the coordinated motion sequence for the modeled avatars to provide animation data, wherein the selected one of the multiple separate command streams simultaneously controls voluntary movements of at least two respective ones of modeled avatars during the coordinated motion sequence that, prior to initiating the coordinated motion sequence were independently controlled by different ones of the multiple separate command streams; and providing animation data for display of an animated scene depicting the coordinated movement.