Phew, CSS3 is not nearly as hard as I thought some time ago. Updated this site’s design a bit, added some neat hover features, and made the “TOOLS” page where you can take a look at a few of my main tools I made and am using in my work. Some of them are available for purchase, some will be later, some may be free, so keep an eye on that page
And here come Pixar Presto’s style controls! A tool which allows me to quickly replace NURBS curves with controls following mesh. Very intuitive for animators. Thanks to Jason Schleifer for showing how this is done in Maya.
Well, it mostly works, and already created a script to replace controls with selectable mesh controls, details in the video.
Will create mini-ui for it, probably, and move onto creation of automatic ik-fk switching stuff… Or fix the rig itself. Or, maybe, put it away for a while, and rig something with advanced skeleton and animate it… Hm, not sure which will be next yet. We’ll see.
Hooraaay, Basic stretchy IK-FK is done. Can now quickly rig arms and legs, without feet yet. Scales correctly with the rig, thanks to Zeth Willie’s tutorial. Basically it will correctly scale under any circumstances, even if the character is parented to something else and that other object is scaled. Will try to make everything else scaling the same way.
In the video the character breaks when i’m scaling it just because nothing but legs and arms is rigged. But arms and legs scale correctly. Once I rig spine and head it will work just fine.
Currently it automatically finds 2nd and 3rd joints… But as I think of it now, it was not a good idea. If there are, say, twist joints in that hierarchy, the script wont work. But it’s no biggie, will fix this some other time.
Yeah, also forgot to add, I will, of course, add a nice pretty PySide UI to this!
So, I decided to write my own little auto rigging tool for myself.
I’m not sure why I even do this, lets say for usual things:
Yeah, this sounds about right to me.
Goal is: Create my own rigging tool, aimed primarily at joint-based rigs for game dev and cinematics, but extencible enough to be adapted to anything else, with main focus on making rigs produced by it as animation-friendly as possible. Should also be possible to rebuild rigs, hopefully will be able to automate and create presets for characters. It should operate based on the existing skeleton.
I also have a few particular fun ideas and techniques I’d like to implement and use while animating. And for that I will also create tools, which include:
But I still wonder, why not just use AdvancedSkeleton? Hmm.. Well, I think I’ll still use it for any commercial work, while polishing and testing my rigging tools in my personal practice works. And since I’m trying to write scripts with modular aka OOP approach in mind, I’ll try to make as much of it complatible with AS and other auto-riggers as possible.
So, steps are, not in order:
Okay, wish me luck, and here is the first working thing, basic IK-FK setup. In next update will add stretching and pole vector, and wrist rotation to IK control.
Just a minor heads-up, BroDynamics updated to 1.1.0. Now features collision objects, as well as a few minor fixes.
Also now available on creativecrash.
http://ift.tt/273ADQk
