COMPUTER MODELLED ENVIRONMENT

• US 20100079447A1
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Williams, Phillip
• Granted Patent: US 8,319,771 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/00 Three dimensional [3D] modelling, e.g. data description of 3D objects

Abstract

A computer-readable storage medium that includes a computer program and corresponding method, the program comprising code which will: generate a computer-modelled environment comprising a three-dimensional computer-modelled space and one or more three-dimensional computer-modelled objects within that space; and generate a map of values of a kinetic parameter over the object'"'"'s surface, the kinetic parameter parameterizing a kinetic activity to be modelled to occur within the computer-modelled space in relation to that surface.

Claims

1. A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a computer program comprising code which when executed on a computer will:

generate a computer-modelled environment comprising a three-dimensional computer-modelled space and one or more three-dimensional computer-modelled objects within said space;

generate a visual texture map for application to a surface of one of said computer-modelled objects, the visual texture map defining differing values of a visual parameter over said surface; and

generate a kinetic map by correlating values of a kinetic parameter to the values of said visual parameter at corresponding locations over said surface, the kinetic parameter parameterizing a kinetic activity to be modelled to occur within said computer-modelled space in relation to said surface.

2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the kinetic parameter parameterizes an emission of particles from the respective locations of said surface.

3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the kinetic parameter specifies speeds of the particles modelled as being emitted from the respective locations of said surface.

4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the kinetic parameter specifies a lifetime of a particle to be ejected from said surface.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the kinetic parameter specifies one of the density, the frequency and the probability of a particle being ejected from said surface.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein said particles model an explosion emitted from or through said surface.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein said particles model smoke emitted from or through said surface.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein said particles model dirt emitted from said surface.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the kinetic parameter is a modelled material property of said surface, the material property parameterizing how said surface will react to impacts occurring within said computer modelled environment at the respective locations of said surface.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises a computer game product such that said computer-modelled environment comprises a game world, and said code further comprises game logic which when executed on a computer will trigger said kinetic activity in dependence on a user input received from a user in relation to the game.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein said object comprises a building

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein said object comprises a vehicle.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 wherein said object comprises a game character.

16. A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a computer program comprising code which when executed on a computer will:

generate a computer-modelled environment comprising a three-dimensional computer-modelled space and one or more three-dimensional computer-modelled objects within said space;

generate a visual texture map for application to a surface of one of said computer-modelled objects, the visual texture map defining differing values of a visual parameter over said surface; and

generate a particle-speed map by correlating values of particle speed to the values of said visual parameter at corresponding locations over said surface, the particle speed values specifying the speed of particles modelled to be ejected from the respective locations of said surface within said computer-modelled space.

17. A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a computer program comprising code which when executed on a computer will:

generate a computer modelled environment comprising a three-dimensional computer-modelled space and one or more computer three-dimensional computer-modelled objects; and

generate a non-visual texture map mapping a speed value over a continuous portion of a surface of one of said computer-modelled object, the speed value specifying the speed of emitted particles.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the visual parameter parameterizes variations in shade over said surface.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the visual parameter parameterizes variations in hue over said surface.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the texture map is a procedural texture map.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the texture map is an artist-generated texture map.

20. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating a computer-modelled environment comprising a three-dimensional computer-modelled space and one or more three-dimensional computer-modelled objects within said space;

generating a visual texture map for application to a surface of one of said computer-modelled objects, the visual texture map defining differing values of a visual parameter over said surface; and

generating a kinetic map by correlating values of a kinetic parameter to the values of said visual parameter at corresponding locations over said surface, the kinetic parameter parameterizing a kinetic activity to be modelled to occur within said computer-modelled space in relation to said surface.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the kinetic parameter parameterizes an emission of particles from the respective locations of said surface.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the kinetic parameter specifies speeds of the particles modelled as being emitted from the respective locations of said surface.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the kinetic parameter specifies a lifetime of a particle to be ejected from said surface.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the kinetic parameter specifies one of the density, the frequency and the probability of a particle being ejected from said surface.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein said particles model an explosion emitted from or through said surface.

26. The method of claim 21, wherein said particles model smoke emitted from or through said surface.

27. The method of claim 21, wherein said particles model dirt emitted from said surface.

28. The method of claim 20, wherein the kinetic parameter is a modelled material property of said surface, the material property parameterizing how said surface will react to impacts occurring within said computer modelled environment at the respective locations of said surface.

29. The method of claim 20, wherein the visual parameter parameterizes variations in shade over said surface.

30. The method of claim 20, wherein the visual parameter parameterizes variations in hue over said surface.

31. The method of claim 20, wherein the computer program product comprises a computer game product such that said computer-modelled environment comprises a game world, and said code further comprises game logic which when executed will trigger said kinetic activity in dependence on a user input received from a user in relation to the game.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein said object comprises a building

33. The method of claim 31, wherein said object comprises a vehicle.

34. The method of claim 31, wherein said object comprises a game character.

35. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating a computer-modelled environment comprising a three-dimensional computer-modelled space and one or more three-dimensional computer-modelled objects within said space;

generating a visual texture map for application to a surface of one of said computer-modelled objects, the visual texture map defining differing values of a visual parameter over said surface; and

generating a particle-speed map by correlating values of particle speed to the values of said visual parameter at corresponding locations over said surface, the particle speed values specifying the speed of particles modelled to be ejected from the respective locations of said surface within said computer-modelled space.

36. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating a computer modelled environment comprising a three-dimensional computer-modelled space and one or more computer three-dimensional computer-modelled objects; and

generating a non-visual texture map mapping a speed value over a continuous portion of a surface of one of said computer-modelled object, the speed value specifying the speed of emitted particles.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein the texture map is a procedural texture map.

38. The method of claim 36, wherein the texture map is an artist-generated texture map.