if you rig them humanoid (humanoid system) you need to be sure it is matching exactly its conventions. As a good starting point you can go to mixamo and download a humanoid rigged character as template. Everything else you need to configure in the import config mode of the IK and humanoid section of the importer. if you…
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We use ipi Soft at work, its not prefect but you can get some really good results. But you do need to realize that it's a depth sensor, one that is generating a point cloud and then trying to figure out where your joints are. If you cross your arms on your chest the cloud becomes a big fused nightmare and it can't figure…
Do you have a special workflow for producing assets quickly? yes, cubemap or even just a hemisphere sky, something with a gradient instead of just a flat color. I never make a 3d scene without it; it fixes areas which clip to black, which is a tell-tale sign of computer games graphics (never happens in Hollywood/TV). With…
This is going to sound like I'm gloating, I'm sorry about that. I am not posting this to rub it in anyone's face, but to tell you about some of the pitfalls of "The Thing That Should Not Be". Uh...? Specks I guess. Yeah, wait no. So in April of 2024 my beloved gramma died at the age of 92, of not wanting to live any…
A few thoughts: The stock is probably too curved to fit nicely into your shoulder, it would wrap around too much. Most guns have fairly flat shoulderpads with slight bends. The trigger seems to be too close to the stock. With the shoulderpad resting on your shoulder, your arm would have to be bent out and then sharply back…
Sorry I failed you Sodom :disappointed_relieved: Once again I lost control over my 'work-life' balance (lol) and effectively, big challenges continue to kick my butt :pensive: For now, I'll have to put this on my pile of shame/ unfinished projects and come back to it one day to finish. One thing I take from this, it's that…
Really quick update of some blendshape sculpts. The updated metahuman pipeline calls them expressions and there are delta maps in the skin shader for the animated normals. These delta maps are essentially compressed normal maps at low resolution to keep memory small. I have no idea how to use delta maps (I think it's to do…
Voxel Proxy - provides a simple and fast way to generate volume proxy meshes. Originally intended as a rigging tool to generate a proxy mesh for skinning purpose to represent a complex geometry as one solid shape. You can download and find all instructions (and preview) on Github repository. For now, its only a test…