Electronic Arts Inc.

Darren Douglas Gyles

Igor Borovikov

Pawel Piotr Wrotek

Srikumar Nair

Brett Tribble

A graphics processing system and method reduce and/or eliminate artifacts during animation by modifying skinning weights used for animating three-dimensionally imaged, compound objects having at least a first object and a second object. The graphics processing system and method identifies a first vertex of a first mesh of a first object and determines that it corresponds to a second vertex from a second mesh of a second object. The graphics processing system determines skinning weights of the second vertex and generates modified skinning weights. The graphics processing system can then animate the second object in some embodiments using the modified skinning weights.

Skinning weights and underlying object suppression of three-dimensional images

A system and method directionally dilate texture onto mesh seams of a laid-out mesh of a three-dimensional image to reduce image artifacts arising from traditional omni-directional dilating. The dilation direction may be determined for a border pixel of a laid-out mesh based at least in part on one or more vertices of the laid-out mesh. Dilation directions determined for mesh border pixels may be encoded onto one or more data channels associated with the corresponding border pixels. The dilation directions at each of the border pixels may be used to incrementally dilate texture onto a predetermined number of pixels of border seams until the entirety of the border seam pixels are dilated.

Directional dilation at a mesh boundary of three-dimensional images

A request is received to assign a first graphical asset and a second graphical asset associated with a three-dimensional (3D) geometry of a simulated character of a video game to the same physical location on the 3D geometry. A graphical conflict between the first graphical asset and the second graphical asset is detected, where the graphical conflict indicates that at least a portion of the first graphical asset and at least a portion of the second graphical asset graphically overlap at the same physical location on the 3D geometry. Attributes of the first and second graphical assets at the same physical location on the 3D geometry are compared. One of the first graphical asset or the second graphical asset is then provided for display at the physical location on the 3D geometry.

Resolving graphical conflicts between objects

A first graphical asset and a second graphical asset associated with a simulated character of a video game are received. The first graphical asset and the second graphical asset that share a same physical location on the simulated character are paired together. Graphical conflicts between the first graphical asset and the second graphical created as a result of the pairing are then resolved.

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Darren Douglas Gyles