Considering that I am supposed to make real-time game characters, I did some research on how rigging was done for them. I found catwoman model with its rig ripped from one of the batman games. Number of bones in around 100. Considering nature of batman games I find this impressive given the number of enemies on screen at…
It depends of the game. A game using a third person view will need a certain amount of bones while a top-down shooter will probably need less simply because the camera is not located at the same distance. A fight game (such as Street Fighter for example) needs a lot more bones because animations are in the core of the…