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Re: How did artists rig/animate PS1 era characters?
Yea all of the FFVII characters where broken up into segments with 100% of the verts in that segment being weighted to the bone, 1:1 weighting. Some "rigs" didn't have bones and where just well placed object pivots linked together to form chains. I forget if vertex weighting was even possible on the PS1, it might have been… -
Re: How did artists rig/animate PS1 era characters?
Different games on PS1 did that differently. I remember Resident Evil 1 and 2 had characters having limbs being separate meshes from the body. So i presume they animated them as separate pieces, probably done procedurally. Some games like MGS had a vertex animation. It's very notable effect, when mesh always kinda warps,… -
How did artists rig/animate PS1 era characters?
I've been interested in learning to how rig/pose characters/objects and so I started looking at some PS1 games (because I want to get the simplest idea of how it works). Compared to today, how much different were the tools/pipeline/effort needed to make moving characters like this? Did they just rely on one skeleton/few… -
Re: How did artists rig/animate PS1 era characters?
I remember messing about with the Gamestudio 5 engine back in the day and it was vertex-based animation.....I spent hours animating the worst walk cycle ever commited to a level..... :) But, skeleton hierarchy-wise, the principles are pretty much the same, minus the engine limitations of the day, obviously. Things have, of… -
Re: How did artists rig/animate PS1 era characters?
the tools used back then were most likely alias poweranimator (precursor to maya) and softimage 3D. i can't say anything about alias but softimage worked pretty much like what we have today - IK rigs with floating control elements and the option to use blendshapes. vertex weighting to bind models to the rig. -
Re: How did artists rig/animate PS1 era characters?
I think a lot of games back then had characters broken into segments so as to use direct parenting instead of weights. -
Re: How did artists rig/animate PS1 era characters?
There's some information here, search for the word "bone": http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/04/making-crash-bandicoot-part-3/
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