Thursday, September 23, 2010

S.W.A.T Analysis

AI_Node:
Strength: The AI node is able to control and manipulate the movement of characters.
Weakness: The AI node becomes difficult to manage when numerous AI characters are being used, especially in regards to the flow graph.
Opportunity: The AI node can be used to explicitly document and represent the movement of characters through an environment.
Threat: Using many AI characters may overload the program, possibly causing it to crash. Additionally, flow graphs may become hard to maintain.

Time_Node:
Strength: The Time node provides a way to change the time of day as well as the lighting in the environment
Weakness: In changing the time of day, there is a delay in the changing of the sky. This may just be my computer, but nonetheless it is a weakness.
Opportunity: In using the Time node to change the time of day, its possible to present changes in the environment at certain times of the day.
Threat: The time delay in the change of sky mention as the weakness, may affect the overall quality of the scene.

Entity_Node
Strength: the entity node is vast, associated with almost anything in the editor. It allows the user to create and control a range of aspects in the editor.
Weakness: In employing the entity node, there are endless possibilities; inputs and outputs and the flow graphs are hard to maintain
Opportunity: Control dynamic aspects of the editor.
Threat: Large, uncontrollable and disorganised flow graphs that are hard to interpret and comprehend.

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