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Weapon animation workflow?
I plan on making several animations for a playable level in UE4. But I'm not sure how to go about animating with props. What is your workflow for props? (rigging it/constrains?/etc) It's been a while since I've animated and could use some help/tips. Thank you. Edit: specifically I am going to be using 3 props: shield, a 1h… -
Re: As a game artist where do your interests lie?
Characters & modular environment pieces, modularity just turns me on. I do enjoy concepting and illustration but purely as a personal hobby, I wouldnt ever want it to be owned or constrained as in a game workplace, being a personal and expressive outlet. Lol that makes 3d sound evil haha, you know what I mean tho right lol… -
Re: tools you wish you had
there is a maxscript out there - i think it's even called autorig - that does exactly what keg just described - for bipeds and quadrapeds. the rigs offer nice control however you'd need a second, constrained skeleton for skinning and export to an engine because the animation rig itself is rather heavy with lot's of extra… -
Re: max animation into maya
Ouch. No access to the source skinned files? Good luck! You'll need some serious scripting mojo, if you want to extract hierarchical bone rotations from raw vertex motion. You might be able to rig something up where each bone is constrained to a nearby vertex or two or three, so the bones then follow the mesh as it moves.… -
Re: edge straighten maxscript
I have a question, I understand this is great for cleanup, but whenever I want to do something similar to this, I can get it to work right utilizing constrain to edge, or operations that slide things along the edge axis. Is there a situation where you cannot have it constructed correctly, and this script is the only way to… -
Re: Laser show for a night club (reference System Shock 1 remake)
Looks like beam particles, and a spotlight with a projection texture. There are a number of ways to get the two to match up, but on top of that the beams are constrained to the weapon. So it looks like there's something else going on. Curious about this too. Neat effect! I worked with a Volume rendering system once that… -
Re: Deus Ex: Universe Art Dump Thread
Beautiful work! I've spent more time than I should admit staring at zoomed in images, thank you for inspiring me to pick up 3DSmax and Zbrush again. How did you get the hair to look so great in sculpt? It's interesting that gameplay directly constrained the design of cars yet I would never have noticed if you hadn't said… -
Re: Rigging Long Coats and Such
If you want it to perfectly follow the legs, you can use those bones. If you want a secondary motion or a delay, I'd give it its own bones. It would depend on the engine. If the engine supports it, hooray. If not, you could run a cloth-sim, point cache the result, apply some cluster centers to these verts, then constrain… -
Re: Workshop # 1- SHEPEIRO
Hey Shep. very nice start, I too would be interested in taking a look at the star shape. In regards to your problem id be tempted to just make to cuts along the line....if it creates too much of a pinch move to option 2, constrain the lines and move the points now at the front mid way between the upper and lower poly… -
Acceptable Poly Count
Hi all. A friend and I are getting to grips with UDK, 3Ds Max and ZBrush, and I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on what an acceptable poly count for models is. I realise this is a question that can have varying answers, so for the moment I'd like to constrain the answer to character models. We're trying to…
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