rigging, skinning and rendering?
I think this two things are actually one the same but am I right?
I think skinning means to you aply vertexes to the bone, but I also think to rigging means that too, am I wrong?
Also what is rendering?
I think skinning means to you aply vertexes to the bone, but I also think to rigging means that too, am I wrong?
Also what is rendering?
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Things like setting up:
- IK/FK blending on limbs.
- Facial controls.
- Motion capture integration
- Rotation controllers for eyes and heads
- Creating a final skeletons for the engine to use.
- Creating the systems that blend and align the final skeleton to the other skeletons if there are any.
- Setting up muscles, cloth and other dynamics.
- Testing it and making sure it works properly and efficiently within the game, and on and on...
Think of it as if you where creating the wires, joints and sticks for Pinocchio to move. You didn't carve out the puppet or paint it but you created the systems to bring it to life.Skinning is binding the verts of a mesh to the various bones. Think of it like you where putting cloths on the puppet, they will follow along and deform however the underlying structure dictates.
Rendering is something totally separate from rigging and skinning.
It normally isn't done in games, the rendering in games happens in the engine in "realtime".