THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

PURPOSE: A three-dimensional animation system which can change a CG image into an animation at a low cost and with reduced memory capacity and also can shorten the time required for downloading the data from a network. CONSTITUTION: The data of a server (44) include the player data (64), a persistency data file containing the texture and voices, etc., related to the geometric models of characters and one or more behavior data files. When the animation is started for the characters changed into animations, a client (46) downloads successively a player, the persistence data and then a behavior file right before the character behaviors are executed and asynchronously with each other.