http://www.haptek.com/developers

Haptek provides a 3D character animation software solution for web pages and stand-alone applications.
This document will give you the details about what is provided from a programmer’s perspective.

• Add a character to your website that interacts with visitors.
• Populate your artificial world with Haptek driven characters
• Use a 3D character to interact with customers at a kiosk
• Add customizable avatars to your instant messaging program
• Have a character give entertaining help at your customer support site
• Use a 3D animated version of your logo or mascot in your program or website
• Add a character to your PowerPoint Presentation
• Put a smiling face on your autonomous Robot
• Quickly and easily add a talking character to go alongside your game
• Add a front end to any text display; have a character read it
• Show a model of your product in real-time 3d
• Add audio playback to your application or website
• Add text to speech (TTS) to your application or website

• Library of pre-built, reusable animations, gestures, and moods
• Advanced skinning
• Morph target blending
• Animation blending
• BVH motion capture playback
• Physically modeled hair and cloth dynamics
• Physically modeled musculature and fatty body deformation
• Attachment system lets you add hats, glasses, or any other mesh to another mesh
• Multiple simultaneous state machines based animation system
• Command driven key frame system
• Lip Synced audio playback, with phoneme generation
• Speex audio playback for tiny sound files.
• Microsoft SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 TTS support
• Ogg Vorbis audio playback
• Bitmap and JPEG texture loading
• Use your own, or use our DirectX 6 rendering engine
• Bzip2 based compressed and archived haptar files
• Haptek Hypertext scripting system supplies a simple text interface
• Query system to get feedback and internal information
• Support for downloading files from http and ftp sites

• ActiveX control for quick and simple integration to your program or presentation
• C language Dynamic Link Library for complete control
• C++ wrapper class for easy integration to win32 programs
• C++ wrapper class for easy integration to your rendering engine
• IE, Netscape, Mozilla plugins for integration with your website
• JavaScript wrapper supplied for easy integration to your website

What Tool Set does Haptek Supply?
(Licensed seperately)

• PeoplePutty – for rapid prototyping of characters and creation of custom heads
• Pre-built Head, Half Body, and Full Body characters – just add a morph for your character and they are ready to use
• HapOggFactory (Audio Factory) – generate Ogg files with embedded lip-synch data from WAV files
• FigureMaker – create animations, states and switches, figure definition files, moods and many more things
• DeltaSetMaker – turn OBJ formatted 3d models into Haptek models, create morph sets from many OBJ files
• HapTarg – create compressed archive files for fast downloading of Haptek data
• Phoneme Editor – fine tune lip-sync information in your Ogg files
• 3D Studio Max utility scripted plugin – export your static models from 3D Studio Max to a format ready to be used in the Haptek Engine

• Complete SDK documentation in HTML format
• Complete searchable documentation in CHM format
• Complete reference to Haptek Hypertext and Query system
• Step by step tutorials on usage of the various tools

• Intel
• Columbia Tri-Star and Sony Pictures
• Children’s Television Workshop
• Stan Lee Media
• American Management Systems
• Euro RSCG
• IXL
• Third Age Media
• Ricardo.de
• Sony Research
• Stanford
• MIT
• Georgia Tech
• KnowledgeView
• Imparta
• Cognos Web Services
• Medical Learning Company
• SCT BOCES
• Sonork SRL
• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
• Nokia
• Mark Chavez
• And others… for a complete list with references, contact Haptek