Natural Motion: Morpheme
morpheme is the industry's first graphically-authorable animation engine for PC and console platforms. In partnership with Airplay, morpheme is now available for iPhone and other mobile devices. morpheme has been designed from the ground up to give animators unprecedented control over the final look of their animations in-game.
morpheme consists of a run-time animation engine and - uniquely - a powerful 3D authoring application for animators:
morpheme: runtime is a next-generation animation engine featuring advanced (and fully customisable) blend techniques, hierarchical animation state machine, IK support, physics support, and compression algorithms.
- lightweight run-time core
- optimised for console, PC, iPhone and mobile platforms
- fully customisable blend nodes
- full hierarchical state machine
- euphoria support
morpheme: connect supports morpheme:runtime through a powerful and flexible 3D interface which provides animators with a graphical environment to author and test the game animations' transition logic and blends. In real-time, animators can modify animation parameters (using graphical tools), change transition timings, and see the result instantly in the 3D viewport.
- modern, fully scriptable application
- 2D and 3D viewports for authoring and visualisation
- graphical authoring of transition graphs and blend trees
- real-time manipulation through sliders and other UI elements
- support for live game pad control
- script support (Lua)
- fully extensible through plug-ins