NPC Animation System

// Overview

A crowd animation system that brings the stadium and arena environments to life. The system manages three distinct NPC classes - standing audience, seated audience and athletes - each with their own animation pools and behavioral responses to gameplay events.

NPCs react dynamically to what happens in the training session: correct task completion triggers positive reactions, failed attempts trigger negative responses, and during idle moments NPCs randomly cycle through up to 30 different animations to maintain visual variety.

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// My Role

• NPC class system - designed three distinct character classes: standing audience, seated audience and athletes, each with unique animation sets and behavior.
• Randomized animation selection - built a system that randomly picks from a pool of ~30 animations per class, ensuring visual variety across the crowd.
• Event-driven reactions - NPCs respond to in-game events: positive reaction for correctly completed tasks, negative reaction for failed attempts, smooth transitions between states.
• Idle behavior - during downtime, NPCs independently cycle through randomized idle and training animations, keeping the scene feeling alive.
• Performance optimization - efficient animation instancing and LOD-aware playback to maintain VR framerate with dozens of animated NPCs on screen.

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