History: Sinbad Model

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!General Info
This is Sinbad, OGRE's official mascot as of January 2010. His name comes from the community nickname of [http://stevestreeting.com/|Steve Streeting], OGRE's Founder and former Project Lead. The character design and 3D model were made by Zi Ye (aka omniter), with input from the OGRE community. The OGRE mesh and Blender scene file are available in the OGRE SDK (1.7 and up) under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License].
!Animations
Sinbad can perform the following actions:
* Idle
* Run
* Jump
* Take out swords
* Put away swords
* Swing swords (vertically or horizontally)
* Dance
These are achieved by mixing and playing 13 different animations. Some animations control different parts of Sinbad's body, and can be played simultaneously (e.g., swinging the swords while running). Others control the same parts, and are therefore mutually exclusive (e.g., idling or dancing but not both). In addition to the animations, two sword entities can be attached to tag points on Sinbad's hands or sheaths to complete the character.
!Usage
!!Simple Setup

!!Advanced Setup
There are many details involved in controlling animated characters - way too many for this article. The Character sample in the SDK provides a full demonstration of Sinbad's capabilities. In particular, refer to the comments in ''SinbadCharacterController.h''.


* some animations are combinable (??)
* all his upper body animations will look different when he's running than when he's standing still

__Video:__
[http://vimeo.com/8815075|vimeo.com/8815075] . . . . . . . . . . __ Watch the VIDEO__


!!Links

* direct download (__TODO__)
* Sinbads [http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=48856&p=373669#p373669|development thread] in the Ogre forum
* Official anouncement: [http://www.ogre3d.org/2010/01/19/we-have-an-official-mascot|We have an official mascot]
* Profile of [http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/user:sinbad|ogre founder] ''Sinbad''
* Profile of the artist ''[http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=21783|omniter]'', who created this model


!!Development

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User ''omniter'' was bored and painted this sketch. Then he got the idea to create a fully animated character model to be an ogre mascot.

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This is an second sketch, which he used as base for his 3D model.

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Insights into the model development (with the modeling tool ((Tools: Blender|Blender))).

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!!Fan pictures

{img fileId="1997"}  by user ''Skiriki'' {img fileId="1998"}  by user ''omniter''

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by user ''tommo''