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Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
From my understanding, and that of my programming colleagues, is that when a programmer says ok, move this character 2 units. They move the global root of the skeleton, while playing an animation. So, if you have a treadmill animation, it appears to be walking. If the animation has forward movement built in, then if the… -
Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
Is that how it really works? If I understand what you said correctly... the global root would have to remain at 0,0,0 for the entire time the character exists the game scene. Displacement node is moved around by the engine; then character skeleton, from the pelvis?, is updated to the Displacement node's position? My… -
Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
That method is when you make the character move forward in space, rather than doing the treadmill. Most studios will have some sort of displacement node, or pill. Studios seem to call them different things. But, its essentially just another bone that is attached to the global root of the skeleton, rather than being part… -
Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
Actually that's precisely what the tutorial in OP's post warns against. When you set Biped to In-Place mode for export, it effectively eliminates all Z motion, and the cycle will appear to bounce up/down as the character slides around according to player input. I suggest adding a bone or dummie at 0,0,0 for Root node,… -
Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
That's true. Though at the present I think the majority people prefer not using root motion. Last freelance I was asked to export cycles for UE4 both in-place and with root motion. I don't know. though I doubt simply reversing the mocap data will get you the best results. I think part of all this comes from confusion… -
Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
Oh man, I love Lico's work. Everyone should definitely follow him. Had him as an instructor at iAnimate, and went for lunch with him in the summer. Amazing guy. All those mouse videos he's been posting are what hes working on at his new studio, Polyarc. His workflow, the locators and what not. All that comes from Monolith… -
Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
right, I think we're on the same page. The position updates would of course happen at whatever the time unit the game engine runs on, that's kind of a rats nest to me since there're different time units depending on what's being updated. I said end of the nav cycle since it was more convenient and understandable. As far as… -
Re: In place animations vs moving animations?
Quoted out of context actually. Italicized for emphasis "Never, EVER remove the forward, (Z-Axis), movement keys from your character’s root/pelvis bone to see your character cycling on the spot unless you want them to plane forward in an unnatural manner when you key them forward again. We don’t move linearly in real life,…
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