WeavR - 3D art creation inside Unity
Introducing WeavR
https://www.virtual-mirror.com/technology/weavr/
WeavR (pronounced Weaver) is a full-featured 3D art creation toolset, integrated into the Unity® Editor.
It gives artists and designers the tools to create 3D content right inside their game editing environment.
Despite being integrated into Unity® Editor, WeavR stand up to standard with dedicated 3D applications.
This includes native FBX¹ pipeline, support for N-gons, rich modelling tools, rigging tools and much more.
Some of WeavR's Notable Features
WeavR Development
We're mostly done with the core components and infrastructure, and are now working on individual tools and their functionality.
You can follow the development progress, as well as stay updated on what's planned for the future on the WeavR Roadmap page.
We're planning to release an early alpha version of WeavR, with limited functionality, so we can get your feedback as soon as possible.
The WeavR alpha is currently slated to early 2015.
We'll appreciate any feedback and input regarding any aspect of WeavR.
If you wish to speak with us directly, please don't hesitate to Contact Us.
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¹ FBX is a file format owned and developed by Autodesk, Inc.
² This means every bug fix, optimization, minor and major versions and all future features will be available for WeavR owners absolutely free, for as long as WeavR is being developed.
https://www.virtual-mirror.com/technology/weavr/
WeavR (pronounced Weaver) is a full-featured 3D art creation toolset, integrated into the Unity® Editor.
It gives artists and designers the tools to create 3D content right inside their game editing environment.
Despite being integrated into Unity® Editor, WeavR stand up to standard with dedicated 3D applications.
This includes native FBX¹ pipeline, support for N-gons, rich modelling tools, rigging tools and much more.
Some of WeavR's Notable Features
- FBX¹ pipeline
- Rich Modeling, UV, Rigging and Retopology tools
- Full N-gon support (meaning non-triangle faces)
- Unlimited Undo
- Free updates for life²
- Unity® Free & Pro
- Windows & Mac
WeavR Development
We're mostly done with the core components and infrastructure, and are now working on individual tools and their functionality.
You can follow the development progress, as well as stay updated on what's planned for the future on the WeavR Roadmap page.
We're planning to release an early alpha version of WeavR, with limited functionality, so we can get your feedback as soon as possible.
The WeavR alpha is currently slated to early 2015.
We'll appreciate any feedback and input regarding any aspect of WeavR.
If you wish to speak with us directly, please don't hesitate to Contact Us.
___________________________________________________________
¹ FBX is a file format owned and developed by Autodesk, Inc.
² This means every bug fix, optimization, minor and major versions and all future features will be available for WeavR owners absolutely free, for as long as WeavR is being developed.
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Thank you.
What exactly do you mean by "3D modeling pipeline"?
Fair enough,
But think about modeling and editing in the environment that the model will be used.
You get all the shaders, scaling, editing of multiple instanced mesh's etc..
We aim to be as feature rich as dedicated application.
But we're also planning tools that are focused for game art that aren't available right now in other packages.
It may help understand our reasoning to create WeavR.
Ah I got it..
We're in a pre-alpha state and finished the base systems.
We have some tools but not enough for a full modelling session.
The idea behind this crowd-fund campaign is to help up get to an "Alpha" release.
You can expect full modelling session near to this "Alpha" release.
Since there are no videos really showing it in use it's hard to see how it could speed up game development in anyway. Do you have any examples of instances where this would prove useful in comparison to working in another program? Exporting from another piece of software and simply updating in Unity is pretty 1 to 1.
If anything it would be texturing in Unity that would be better since you could preview changes with the same shaders you will use in game.
The only case I could really see this being useful right now is if it was an option for manually editing the shape of colliders if one were to not use box colliders.
Good luck with the fundraising but I think that the fact that it's using your own site for all the funding rather than a site with rules and guidelines that can more easily be enforced can also make people less easy with putting cash down on the project.
What can it do that really takes advantage of being a direct part of Unity?
This right here ^
I'm a 3D modeler myself and where I came from the word "pipeline" is used to describe flow of data from one software to another.
I felt that this is not what the perna meant so I've asked a simple question.
I'm taking you're questions/concerns seriously and will provide the feedback you're asking for in the near future.
@Shadownami92
WeavR has a search-box style action window we call "Dynamic Menu" and an RPG-style Hot Bar.
When you call an action from the Dynamic Menu you can either type the actions full name or you can type its unique initials fast like EX for extrude.
So calling extrude from the Dynamic Menu will be like that: Space(calls the Dynamic Menu), E, X, Space(Will execute the action)
The Hot Bar in the other hand function in a way that is very similar to an RPG/MMO Hot Bar. You assign an action to a slot and when you press a number the action is called.
And like must RPG Hot Bars you have couple columns available to customize.
So in example if in slot number 1 you've put an extrude action, pressing 1 will execute it.
Direct advantage of WeavR is in level design and environment art. modelling in the level is king.
The truth is that it was our starting point with WeavR but as we dived into the design of WeavR we felt that we can deliver an entire toolset.
Thanks for the feedback.