△Ark

performance, agents, big worlds, ue

• Performance Tools: Suit, AI, Hybrid

• All In One:

• https://www.replikant.com/#About (no UE plugin yet, but they say it’s coming)

• Suit/Hardware:

• Livelink w/Iphone 10+ (facial capture)

• Rokoko (word is it is OK...; 6K)

• Xsens (word is it is good; 15K)

• AI Motion Capture Tools:

• Radical Motion (Live, No Hands, Face, Body, Easy Retargeting)

• Deep Motion (Non Live, Hands, Face, Body, Medium Retargeting)

• Hybrid Systems:

• Using a gallery (3-4 sided projection) as an enormous screen you can perform inside of (?), w/VR capabilities (?)

• Using the depth camera to stream the audience into the game world (?)

• Frequency/Midi Integration:

• SciFi Synth (midi example)

• Audio Analyzer (frequency, beat analysis, etc.)

• Agent Tools: Navigation, GameAI, ML

• Navigation:

• Boids, Advanced Flock System

• Dynamic Surface Navigation (Wall Walking)

• Don’s 3D Pathfinder for Flying

• Universal Flight System

• Easy GameAI:

• Behavior Trees, normal part of engine

• State Machines, normal part of engine

• Harder GameAI:

• AI Life System (think the sims)

• GOAP

• Easy ML Systems:

• Dialogue Systems (InWorld)

• Imitation + Reinforcement Leaning

• Mindmaker (mixed feelings about this system)

• Hard ML Systems:

• CV to LLM to Agent Instructions

• Voyager Style System

• Universal Agents

• Big Worlds (Ecosystems): Multiplayer, Ecosystems, Terrain

• Multiplayer:

• Steam Subsystem

• Dedicated (meaning: perpetually online) (AWS unreal instance)

• Ecosystem Simulation:

• MASS Entity System

• Animal Behavior Pro Kit

• Hyper Farming System V2

• Nature Growth Components Plugin

• Terrain (World in a Box):

• Ultra Dynamic Sky

• Realistic Forest

• Voxel Plugin

• Worldscape Plugin

• Massive World - Procedural Generation with PCG

• Magic Map Material and Maker