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How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Hello All, I am new here and am really happy to know there is a forum solely for videogame 3d artist/animators/designers. I am working on an animation project.I am a 2d animator that recently switched to 3d animation but I have long since been familiar with modeliing,uvmapping,rigging and texturing. I have a model with… -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Well, as I was eye above the shoulder of the animator on the last game I worked on, they used a pretty nifty way of animating capes. If I remember correctly, they were rigging the cape with bones, then use cloth simulations on the cape so it'd move accordingly to it's mass&stuff, and then they'd project the key of the… -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Hello all ! The video in the first post is mine, and I would like to explain how it`s made. I hope you excuse my English, I`ll try to explain with simple words. - Case:: to make illusion of cloth without simulations. Yes, we can use PhysX cloth, but it is heavy, especially for MMO game with lot of players and NPC`s. So, I… -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Thanks for the reply,guys.I am not actually doing it for a game.It is for an animation sequence heavy with fight scenes and the girl is gonna be darting around doing flips and wielding swords about,including summons and she has long hair and a cape. Imagine how heavy it will be to run simulation for these animation… -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Thanks a lot,guys. UPDATE: I tried the corrective blendshape with the model,encountered a lot of problems,then I realized the target model must be in the bindpose for it to work without problems.So I tweaked the shoulder area of the target model while observing how the tweak affects the rigged model in various… -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Well hair and capes still seem to be the bain of game development. There is always a lot of fine tuning to get it just right and interpenetration keeps many animators up at night , I am sure. I have not done a whole lot of hair and capes myself as I am not an animator, but from my experience working on games, I think the… -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Are you doing this for Cutscenes/non Interactive NPC Animations or for Gameplay (AI/Player controlled)? -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
A decision has been reached.2D animation will be used for the cutscene,maybe 3d elements for the environment .That means it would be easier to pull off free flowing hair and cape movements and believable explosion and spells and no worries about bad skin deformations and uncanny facial emotions. Thanks for the help. -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Well, After you baked your simulation to your bones, you can still moves them or do anything as you want, since from that point on, it'll react like a normal animation. The point of the simulation is just for giving a realistic look to it, but nothing keeps you from modifying afterward and so on. (Especially if you baked… -
Re: How to rig and animate cloth/hair in games??
Thanks for the info,scythe.I think for just cutscenes,baking to bones doesn't matter cause the baking is for a particular series of movement so the game engine doesn't have to calculate cloth movements or if you bake to the bones and you animate a different movement,will the bones move with that movement or you have to do…
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