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Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

ICIDS 2008: Interactive Storytelling pp 92–95Cite as

Steps towards a Generic Interface between Interactive Storytelling Applications and Character Animation Engines

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We present first results for the development of a general interface to believable agents. Central element of our approach is CharanisML, a character animation system meta language, which draws from a number of previous proposals for the description of interactive 3D content. To demonstrate the general character of this interface, we implemented two different clients in 2D and 3D that are able to interpret CharanisML. These clients may be adapted as animation engines for interactive digital storytelling engines like Scenejo. Using CharanisML it is possible for an author to control characters independently from both, storytelling engines and two or three-dimensional representations.

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  1. PH Weingarten, University of Education, Media Education and Visualization Group (MEVis), Leibnizstr. 3, 88250, Weingarten, Germany

    Sebastian A. Weiß, Florian Berger, Alexander Marbach & Wolfgang Müller

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  1. FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Altonaerstr. 25, 99085, Erfurt, Germany

    Ulrike Spierling

  2. TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, CH 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Nicolas Szilas

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Weiß, S.A., Berger, F., Marbach, A., Müller, W. (2008). Steps towards a Generic Interface between Interactive Storytelling Applications and Character Animation Engines. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_15

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