Tech Talks EP 34 | Avatar Movement

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In this episode of Tech Talks, Roblox founder & CEO David Baszucki sits down with Oren Jacob and Vincent Petrella to explore our latest innovations in avatar movement. Building a fully extensible system that enables fluid, physically-based motion for characters across all shapes, sizes, and proportions is one of our most complex engineering challenges yet, requiring a full evolution of our avatar movement stack. We break down the systems behind that effort and discuss how new animation tools on Roblox are laying the foundation for more expressive avatars and more ambitious gameplay experiences. 3:00 - What is avatar movement 7:30 - Challenges of avatar movement on Roblox 10:00 - Avatar movement on Roblox today 18:30 - Character controller library 22:00 - Adaptive animation 23:30 - Animation graph editor 27:15 - Current avatar movement stack 28:50 - What the new avatar movement stack unlocks for creators 31:30 - Future of avatar movement 36:30 - Most difficult avatar motion scenario Ro...