Electronic Arts Inc.

A party system of a gaming environment provides to users of the gaming environment parties of sizes that extend beyond the party size limitations of a video game. An extendable party can dynamically create subset parties of users for gameplay as needed, without requiring the party to be ceased. Therefore, an extendable party allows a subset of users, or multiples thereof, to enter into gameplay while maintaining the party as a whole. A party system, video game, or gaming environment can be configured to apply one or more rules or policies to a party that limit or alter a feature or function of an extended party, such as to prevent players among extended parties from providing or receiving competitive advantages.

Implementations disclosed herein are directed to a method for predicting motion capture data implemented by a video game development system including one or more processors. The method can include: obtaining, by one or more of the processors of the video game development system, motion capture data; the motion capture data can include one or more missing values; generating, by one or more of the processors of the video game development system, a predicted value for the one or more missing values. Generating a predicted value can include processing the motion capture data using one or more machine learning models to determine the predicted value.

In a video game, a player's character can start in a normal state, receive first damage, and change to an incapacitated state. The player's character can be revived from the incapacitated state back to the normal state. The player's character can be changed from the incapacitated state to a preliminarily defeated state, and in response, a player respawn activation item can be generated. The player respawn activation item can be used by the player's teammates to respawn the player's character at one or more respawn locations.

A system is disclosed that is able to combine motion capture data with volumetric capture data to capture player style information for a player. This player style information or player style data may be used to modify animation models used by a video game to create a more realistic look and feel for a player being emulated by the video game. This more realistic look and feel can enable the game to replicate play style of a player. For example, one soccer player may run with his elbows closer to his body and his forearm may swing across his torso. While another soccer player who is perhaps more muscular may run with his elbows and arms further from his body and his forearms may not cross in front of his torso when running.

A system may perform motion capture using motion capture targets with concave reflector structures. For example, the motion capture target include a target body and a plurality of tracking markers located on respective portions of the surface of the target body. At least one tracking marker of the plurality of tracking markers may be a concave reflector structure including a tapered hole in the surface of the target body and at least a portion of a surface of the tapered hole may be reflective.

A method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) model includes obtaining a set of two-dimensional (2D) images of a scene acquired by one or more cameras from a plurality of camera angles at a plurality of camera positions. Each 2D image corresponds to a respective camera angle and a respective camera position. The method further includes obtaining the respective camera angle and the respective camera position for each 2D image, and generating one or more semantic masks from the set of 2D images. Each semantic mask corresponds to a class of one or more objects in the scene. The method further includes training a neural radiance field (NeRF) model, using the set of 2D images and the one or more semantic masks as a training dataset, to obtain a trained NeRF model. The trained NeRF model is an implicit 3D model of the one or more objects in the scene.

A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for simplifying a mesh including bevels. The method includes: receiving a polygonal mesh representing a three-dimensional (3D) object; identifying a set of edges in the polygonal mesh as bevel edges; performing a mesh simplification operation on the polygonal mesh to generate a simplified mesh, wherein the mesh simplification operation removes at least one edge that includes a vertex that is of a bevel edge, and wherein two vertices in the polygonal mesh are collapsed to a collapse vertex in the simplified mesh; and updating stored normals of the collapse vertex based on copying stored normals of the two vertices removed from the polygonal mesh to the collapse vertex.

The present disclosure provides a system for customizing virtual entities via a multi-track system. The system can generate a user interface that uses multiple tracks to manage and display virtual entities and virtual objects. The virtual entity can be in-line with a track, and virtual display objects can move along tracks that intersect with the virtual entity track. When a particular virtual display object intersects with the virtual entity track, a three-dimensional representation of an item associated with the particular virtual display object can be rendered with the virtual entity.