User:Josh Oosterman/Design Study

Revision as of 07:52, 29 July 2010

The Problem

I wanted to create a tool to animate scenes, and humanoid characters.

Eventually I want be able to create complex animations which can be loaded into a 2d game.

This would take too long for a 427 assessment, so I've simplified the problem to having an interactive stickmen tool. The extensibility of the design of the system is critical so I can extend it in the future.

The system was fully designed and implemented in C# for COSC427, and was not based on previous work.

A screenshot of the current version is shown below.

System Goals

Within my 427 Project

• Customisable backgrounds
• Posable figures (Such as Stickmen)
• Props
• Extensible - so I can add the below features eventually

Outside the scope of this project, but to be added in the future:

• Interpolation between Keyframes
• Advanced Inverse Kinematics & Constraints on Joints
• Export angles & positions as animation file to be used in games

System Design

The image below is a simplified UML class diagram of nearly all of the classes in the system.

Design Description

Overview

IDrawable ToDo

Interfaces, Inheritance and Encapsulation

IDrawable ToDo

AnimatedObject heirachy ToDo

Object Encapsulation ToDo

Design Patterns

• Strategy pattern (LimbAnimationStrategy) ToDo
• Observer (Handle) ToDo
• Flyweight (Sprite) ToDo
• Decorator (Background) ToDo

Maxims

ToDo

Criticisms

MVC etc ToDo