Is this possible?

[Grimmjow0006]

I've been assigned a project to act our a play. Well the English teacher told us he likes these art type projects to bring out our creativity. I can't think of anything more creative than acting the play out in Oblivion. Would it be possible? If it is what kind of mods would I need? The play is Zoo Story by Edward Albee. I've never heard of it. Here is a link to wikipedia on it.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zoo_Story

[MichikoUnknownFox]

Well, it's possible. You'll need a lot of pose and animation mods, a lot of scripting and quest-writing knowledge, and a lot of time and patience. This is definitely going to be a big and difficult project, should you actually go through with it. It's not something you can just do over a weekend, because even experienced modders will spend weeks and even months on a simpler quest-related mod, just to get everything right. And since it's supposed to act out a play, naturally you'll need voice acting as well.

 

So while it's difficult, it's definitely possible.

[Megatarius]

It would probably be the most overly complicated way to complete the assignment you could possibly come up with.

[Grimmjow0006]

It would probably be the most overly complicated way to complete the assignment you could possibly come up with.

Maybe. But I just learned it's only part of the play. So it won't be as much as some might think. It's like 5 min segment I think, not sure I haven't seen it, he just gave us the script. I can't figure out how to record me actually acting it out since I have no camera or a person to hold the camera. We were grouped off and I got the short straw I guess. So I'm alone and I can't really do anything. I need to figure out which part he is giving me. If it's a simple enough part is it possible? He said solo people gets a dog story or something. The part where one talks about him killing a dog. So I'm guessing all I would need is to have an NPC and then I can go out somewhere else and record the character killing a dog.

 

EDIT: I'd probably need some clothes to wouldn't I? What are some normal walking animations? I need a kick animation too. I wonder if there is an easier way to do this? Maybe Garry's Mods.

[SavageArtistry]

If it were me, I'd forget Oblivion and do this project with The Movies. It's pretty old now and very cheap.

[MichikoUnknownFox]

Well default walking animations should work for you if it's just male characters. A lot of mods use kick animations, like Sinkpoint's Martial Arts Animations mod. You can use other mods like for expressions, like Personality Idles and its variants. You don't need to actually activate the mods. You just need the animation files inside them, then you script the characters to use the said animations. Unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure how to do it, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out by looking at existing scripts of characters that already make non-standard movements.

 

But yeah, even with the knowhow and all the tools for me, I still wouldn't use Oblivion for this. I think doing something like stop-motion animation will take less time, be easier to maintain (because there's no need for bug testing and accounting for the possible weirdness of Oblivion's engine messing things up) and ultimately be more rewarding than this.