The main character of the game was an angel therefore most of the animation was difficult to capture:

A great deal of imagination was involved and we used a lot of tricks to achieve the capture: for instance, when we captured the take off:

Eight optical infrared cameras system

You can see two out of eight infrared cameras that enable the system to capture the trajectory of the balls glued on the actor:

Acting

This character was supposed to float in the air. You can see me shaking a base on which the actor is sitting.

Fighting

The actor is ready for a strike.

By the way, one can see on the rear, two cameras as well as the super computer starting capturing the movement.

During the development of Commando I had to make a one week demo of Asterix for a pre-sale project for Infogrames Entertainment, back in 1997.

This project was targeting PCs and PlayStation One, so I took advantage of the engine I was developing: I plugged some artworks I have been made by an external studio in Paris and made use of motion captured animation from my former project Angel Quest.

I programmed an RTC (Real Time Camera) intro for the game, featuring a night and day management cycle, for which I also programmed a realtime fire effect.

I included some sound effects and in a couple of days I completed a short demo, where you were able to wander in the small village.

Look at the following screen shots:

During the development of Commando and the one week demo of Asterix for Infogrames Entertainment, back in 1997, I spent one weekends and over the night work sessions to port the game engine to the PC.

WarStation™: First port, en route to Windows

I started with a port to Windows in C and DirectX, converting all the PlayStations libs (including sodlib, libGPU, etc.) and achieved the port in late 1998.

I ran Commando with no issue with great speed performances.

WarStation SdlImage: Second port, en route to Java

Seven years later, I ported the whole game engine to Java J2ME and succeeded to run it on the iMac Power PC and the Macbook 12” at incredible high performances performance.

I dropped DirectX of course, and ported the 3D code to openGL.

And during the July 2005 summer holiday I’ve had completed the port and ran the Asterix demo I wrote 8 years before for the PlayStation.

This demo became one of the unit test for my SdlImage™ video game visual booster technology.

Look at the following screen shots of Asterix/Java:

• Volume I, issue 1 : January 1995
• Volume I, issue 2 : February 27th 1995
• Volume II, issue 1 : March 8th 1995
• Volume III, issue 1 : May 29th 1995

• Dimensions: Height: 10”, Length: 30”
• Power Plant: Magnetic Hydro-Dynamic Propulsion
• Maximum speed: 30 knots

S.T.O.R.M. can carry 3 aquanauts. It has multiple weapons, and an R.O.V. drone submersible.

Weapons Description

Listed by destructive power from lowest output to maximum destructive power.

(a) Laser beam. 10 KiloJoule pulsed laser. Extremely responsive, the laser shoots forward.	(b) Neutron beam. The unidirectional beam shoots forward like the laser. It has a 10 TeraJoule output, and can annihilate most objects quickly and effectively.
(c) Dual Plasma beams Two cannons permit you to shoot both upwards and downwards simultaneously.	(d) Torpedoes. Self powered, they have highly destructive power and long range. (e) Photon bombs. They are tactical weapons due to a limited area of use. But they are the most powerful of S.T.O.R.M. weapons.