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We hope our U.S. readers have been enjoying their Independence Day celebrations. Clearly most everyone working in the MMO industry has been chowing down on BBQ as there hasn't been much in the way of major gaming news stories breaking during the holiday. However, we did come across a Global Agenda story that we think is fitting for the 4th of July weekend.

Hi-Rez Studios VP of game operations Stew Chisam writes that the Global Agenda team received this from the wife of U.S. Army Captain Chris Ficquette: "My husband is in the United States Army and will be re-deployed for his second tour of duty this summer. To date, I have not yet found a bigger fan of video games than him. Is there any way that I could have my husband involved in motion capturing so that he could be immortalized in your video game?" It turns out Hi-Rez Studios was willing to oblige.

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MTV Multiplayer's Tracey John is their resident MMO expert, and today on the site she has a great post up discussing Age of Conan. Instead of the usual filler about PvP or the game's graphics, though, Tracey tossed a question to AoC Product Director Jorgen Tharaldsen about their mo-cap process. As we've previously discussed, one of Conan's back-of-the-box features is mounted combat. In order to get the realistic movement required for that sort of intricate system, Funcom used traditional motion capture processes on distinctly non-traditional subjects: horses.

Tharaldsen responded to Tracey's query with several pictures taken at the session, and a few quick words about the individuals who did it for them. It seems, somewhere in England, there is an entire stable and stadium set up just for this sort of work. The submitted images also show the mo-cap transition process, moving the data to a final product state. If you haven't seen pictures of horses taped up with ping pong balls today, make sure to check it out. Then read on below the cut for a demo video of mounted combat, taken at this year's GDC event.

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