Visual Scene Maker

Creating interactive applications with multiple virtual characters comes along with many challenges that are related to different areas of expertise. The definition of context-sensitive interactive behavior requires expert programmers and often results in hard-to-maintain code.

Visual Scene Maker is a visual authoring approach for virtual character applications. In SceneMaker a separation of content and logic is enforced. We introduce concurrency and specific history structures as key concepts to facilitate clearly structured interactive behavior definition, multiple character modeling, and extensions to existing applications. The new integrated developer environment allows sceneflow visualization and runtime modifications to support the development of interactive character applications in a rapid prototyping style.