character CUSTOM SKEL NPC: Gorc

[Archangel35757]

I will make a tutorial after I successfully do it. I've had inrermittent luck.

[minilogoguy18]

It never turns out good when you try to retarget a FK skeleton to a IK rig, I don't see it working because I tried it too only for it to look terrible. Now though, if all of the JA animations were on like say my biped rig it would just be a few simple clicks and I could transfer everything over.

 

@@DT85, I plan on just making my own rig and animations. It's something that I can't wait to do and will probably spend all my free time on so it should actually go somewhere unlike most of my personal projects lol.

 

A genuine walk cycle as well as many other things will look much better than a retargeted human walk.

[Archangel35757]

@@minilogoguy18 - I never said I was just going to stop at the retargeted animation. It's just a starting point it will obviously have to be tweaked.

[Tempust85]

This guy will only need 1 stance and core animations (runs, walks, crouchwalks, etc) so give retargeting a go. If it looks like complete shit, then recreate the animations.

[Psyk0Sith]

I think this will work better than the doom helmet.

 

 

 

[Tempust85]

Nice work. If anyone wants to check out the 11gorc level, I've updated the mod files:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yfkp0gedbde4pl9/AABwurywhkMYamKHIoavY6Ysa?dl=0

 

Video has been converted and added, I've written out the objectives. No enemies or music though.

[minilogoguy18]

@@DT85 Why did we get away from SVN? It was nice just being able to right click on the folder and hit update any time a change was made.

[Tempust85]

Space. I have 4.4gb in total on Dropbox for free.

[swegmaster]

nice

[Psyk0Sith]

Just a quick update, i rotated the forearms as requested and added more details, i'm hoping to start on the low poly soon.

[minilogoguy18]

omgomgomgomgomg

[Archangel35757]

Just a quick update, i rotated the forearms as requested and added more details, i'm hoping to start on the low poly soon.

 

There was no pic for this update?

[Psyk0Sith]

Nope

[Tempust85]

I would much prefer this be closer to the cinematic, but it's upto you as you're the artist. Of course this would be a non-issue if we ditched the video cinematic or part of it. Watch the mouth move on the lil one, it's horrible lol.

 

Thoughts on this:

 

We can have a fresh, full set of facial bones which we lip sync ripped audio and animate in max. That animation gets exported to a level-specific GLA and played along with the ripped voice via scripting. The end result would be much better than base JKAs talking and requires no extra coding. I however, do not have a lip sync plugin.

[Archangel35757]

I would much prefer this be closer to the cinematic, but it's upto you as you're the artist. Of course this would be a non-issue if we ditched the video cinematic or part of it. Watch the mouth move on the lil one, it's horrible lol.

Thoughts on this:

We can have a fresh, full set of facial bones which we lip sync ripped audio and animate in max. That animation gets exported to a level-specific GLA and played along with the ripped voice via scripting. The end result would be much better than base JKAs talking and requires no extra coding. I however, do not have a lip sync plugin.

My facial rig I create will be able to do lip-sync... I just need to develop it.

[Tempust85]

Same with mine, but I need a good lip sync plugin for max. I don't really want to have to hand-animate it completely....

[Archangel35757]

Same with mine, but I need a good lip sync plugin for max. I don't really want to have to hand-animate it completely....

I will be developing my own lip-sync plugin based on PRAAT... (because there is not a good free one) to be used in conjunction with the facial rig.

[Tempust85]

I'll try and "source one".

[Archangel35757]

I'll try and "source one".

Well, I hope you will be able to use mine.

[Psyk0Sith]

Baking done.

 

 

 

 

[Archangel35757]

@@Psyk0Sith - Looks awesome! Let me know when you are ready to fit a CS Biped to your model.

[Tempust85]

Why not use CAT?

 

Also how did you bake that?

[Archangel35757]

Why not use CAT?

Also how did you bake that?

Never used CAT. Plus not sure how the dotXSI exporter would handle CAT skeleton-- if it would need "ignore" treatment like the CS Biped.

 

Plus MotionBuilder is set-up to easily retarget animations onto a 3dsMax CS Biped... not so for CAT.

[minilogoguy18]

I need new undies.

[Psyk0Sith]

Why not use CAT?

 

Also how did you bake that?

 

Building the mesh mostly as a single piece and isolating the detached meshes when baking, plus the AO pass and using the 3 point shader to display in max 2010.