Some Progress (Mach II)

Featured in this video, we have...

• 139 key hairs (generated from the geometry of a decimated input mesh)
  
• Demonstration of the ability to control a dynamic rigid body's angular/linear velocity with keyboard input
  
• Nullification of gravity
• Removal of the oscillation caused by the "springs" that keep the hairs anchored to the head
  

Goals for the weekend:

• Generate key frame data that specifies the position and orientation of a "master control node" at each frame (for example, a nod would be approximated by a change in node orientation every x number of frames); save this data in a file ("nod.kf")
  
• Parse the .kf file and store its data in a dictionary whose keys are frame numbers and values are position/orientation vectors
  
• Develop a simple GUI that allows the user to change the position/orientation of a rendered master control node according to the parsed .kf data (i.e. "play" a .kf animation)
• Plug Bullet into the GUI and use control laws to extrapolate the linear and angular velocity necessary to move the head rigid body so that its position/orientation matches that of the master control node (rendering the head rigid body isn't necessary, but it would be lovely to implement for debugging purposes)