Hi! Did a blockout of the book with some test animation. In a game context, the book could have those states: interaction start/ open, turn page left/ right, interaction end/ close. If so, would need some turn page animation. Possibly a few more bones to have more control over the shape in various states (currently has…
@LeonDreiling Happy to see you stuck with it! You've done a lovely job and learned new skills. Not to mention identified things you can do differently in the future. As far as I'm concerned, you've done this challenge proud. :3
When you are done with your weighting, you can convert all the vertices to "Modified". This will allow you to add bones without any of their weights changing. When a vertex is tagged as "Modified" changing the size of the cross sections no longer updates the influence on the vertices, and the influence can only be changed…
I'm going to call this done for now. Going to move onto some a new character, still want to do a actual dance animation but it will have to be side project while I look at adding more to my portfolio to look for new work since I resigned a couple of weeks ago because the company stopped paying me. Your browser does not…
Wanted to drop a quick pipeline piece we did solving a data-bloat problem. We needed a reusable, highly deformed eye rig setup for a stylized project, but relying on geometry caching to bake out the lattice deformations was killing our data foot print. We’ve shared a quick, high-level teaser of the rig over on LinkedIn if…
I'll assume you use 3ds max. Yes you can. Look into skin utilities. You'll find two buttons: "Extract skin data to mesh" and "Import skin data from mesh". The first one makes a mesh object that stores your weights. The other you use after selecting that mesh object and the object you want to transfer weights to (same obj…
Thanks Eric . I actually meant local files and backups searching , not internet resources. Those texture libraries are nice indeed but never provide you with something exactly what you want and usually limited to small 2x2m patches that gives very distinctive look to game environments lacking mid-frequency details across…
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…
making your own is a bit on the 'easier said than done' side - i'm not exactly well versed in driver authoring but my surface level understanding is that it's a bit of a black box as far as Nvidia are concerned. AMD opensource their linux drivers but afaik not the windows ones. if we're doing conspiracy theories (facts)…