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1. Character creator and animations

   

   Topic by konraden · Nov 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi! Im looking for some insight into how character creator´s like the one in Skyrim and similar are setup and works together with animations. Mainly Im looking for a good solution for faces, how the bone-setup would be and how the customize bone-setup will work with the animations for the face. Anyone know of any good…

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   Reply by Ashaman73 · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   You don't really need morph target support in your rendering engine, when you are able to do some custom coding. Once the final mesh is designed in the editor, it is better to bake the result in a single mesh and render the baked version instead of using some morph-target solution in-game. This way you could code the…

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   Reply by konraden · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks for the responses! If only I had the possibility to use morph targets =) Cant say that I read all of www.makehuman.org but I scanned trough it but could find any, thanks anyways! What Im lookin for is something that can give me 100% skinbind to two bones. One bone for customizing and one for animating. How were the…

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   Reply by jfitch · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   If you really don't want to use morphs, then skin the mesh to one bone, and make that bone a child of the bone that will move in the hierarchy. Let's call the second bone an adjust bone for instance. From there you can scale that bone, move it, etc, and it will still move appropriately for animations. Then on the character…

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   Reply by konraden · Nov 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Just started watching but I think this one might answer some questions. GDC 2011 Ultimate Customization in Character Creation - Challenges and Innovations by Brad Stokan (Cryptic Studios)

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   Reply by oglu · Nov 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   take a look at digital tutors they have a lot rigging stuff...

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   Reply by konraden · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks alot for some great info Ashaman73.

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   Reply by konraden · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks jfitch! Problem solved! :)

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   Reply by monster · Jan 2015 · Home› Technical Talk

   I think Obliviion used FaceGen which is a morph based system. Why can't you use morphs? Is your game engine from 1999? :) http://www.facegen.com/

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    Reply by .morph3us · Nov 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

    Maybe reading through the blog at www.makehuman.org helps?