Adjustable robot for providing scale of virtual assets and identifying objects in an interactive scene

A method for generating action sequence data for a character to be rendered in a video game, comprising:

• during recording of an actor in a performance space, providing a cue to the actor to perform an action that simulates interacting with a virtual obstacle at a location in the performance space;
• instructing a robot to move to the location in the performance space at which the actor is to simulate interaction with the virtual obstacle;
• and
• instructing the robot to adjust a physical attribute of the robot when at the location, the physical attribute when adjusted is placed at a three-dimensional location to simulate a scale of the virtual obstacle with which the actor is to simulate interaction.

A computer readable medium containing non-transitory program instructions for generating action sequence data for a character to be rendered in a video game, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer system causes the one or more processors to carry out the operations of:

• during recording of an actor in a performance space, providing a cue to the actor to perform an action that simulates interacting with a virtual object at a location in the performance space;
• instructing a robot to move to the location in the performance space at which the actor is to simulate interaction with the virtual object;
• and
• instructing the robot to adjust a physical attribute of the robot when at the location, the physical attribute when adjusted is placed at a three-dimensional location in the performance space to simulate a scale of the virtual object with which the actor is to simulate interaction.