Systems and methods for constrained physically controlled animation selection and playback

Abstract

Systems and methods for constrained physically controlled animation selection and playback include a computing system configured to execute a game application configured generate a virtual game environment comprising first and second virtual character models. The game application may identify a collision event for a first frame, between the first virtual character model and the second virtual character model, where the character models are in locomotive states. The game application may determine first and second metric(s) of the character models, and apply the metrics to a model, to determine an outcome of the collision event for a second frame. The game application may identify an animation sequence having a type of animation sequence corresponding to the determined outcome, and generate the second frame according to the identified animation sequence.