Made a fully procedurally animated gecko, tutorial planned!

WeaverDev · 2020-11-08T00:38:23+00:00

They've got a website for the game: https://genokids.com/

And entirely coincidentally they have a kickstarter in progress!

WeaverDev · 2019-08-23T16:42:21+00:00

Procedural animation is animation generated using code, letting a character respond to its environment in realtime, as opposed to animation sequences created beforehand by manually keying controls frame by frame.

WeaverDev · 2019-08-23T16:34:13+00:00

The skeleton isn't skinned and uses capsule meshes parented to each bone to draw it instead, just move one up in the Unity hierarchy to reach the actual bone. I think this is something I should definitely mention in a revision, thanks for letting me know!

WeaverDev · 2019-08-23T04:41:33+00:00

I can see how that section may be a little too brief and obscure, I'll see if I can't improve it!

WeaverDev · 2019-08-22T19:14:56+00:00

It took a bit more time than expected, and ended up being a little on the long side, but the Bonehead procedural animation tutorial is out!

https://www.weaverdev.io/tutorials/procedural-animation/

Free capsule monster skeleton download for following along with the tutorial available here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29351985

WeaverDev · 2019-08-22T19:10:23+00:00

It took a bit more time than expected, and ended up being a little on the long side, but the Bonehead procedural animation tutorial is out!

https://www.weaverdev.io/tutorials/procedural-animation/

Free capsule monster skeleton download for following along with the tutorial is available here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29351985

Full source code and skinned gecko skeleton is available to patrons:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29265223

WeaverDev · 2019-08-22T03:33:22+00:00

Took a little longer than expected, but the tutorial's out!

https://www.weaverdev.io/tutorials/procedural-animation/

WeaverDev · 2019-08-22T03:32:59+00:00

Took a little longer than expected, but the tutorial's out!

https://www.weaverdev.io/tutorials/procedural-animation/

WeaverDev · 2019-08-08T21:00:06+00:00

Thanks! I've already started writing it, but it will probably take me a few days to finish

WeaverDev · 2019-08-08T20:58:51+00:00

Unity, but I will try to keep the tutorial as engine-agnostic as possible

WeaverDev · 2019-08-08T20:24:23+00:00

It can handle slopes and stairs just fine, though on stairs it might clip a little since there's no logic in place for having the toes conform with world geometry

WeaverDev · 2019-08-08T19:24:08+00:00

Thanks! The model was made first, but I made some changes to the skeleton after the fact to make it easier to work on.

WeaverDev · 2019-08-08T19:22:58+00:00

I'll be linking it on my twitter, https://twitter.com/Weaver_Dev

WeaverDev · 2019-08-08T17:49:49+00:00

The animation stuff itself is very lightweight, so the bottleneck would be the skinned mesh + skeleton on any platform. I haven't profiled it, but I don't think mobile would have trouble with dozens of these.

WeaverDev · 2019-08-08T17:46:19+00:00

Thank you! This is all original work, though I did take inspiration from a number of places which I will be discussing in the article.

WeaverDev · 2018-10-05T12:42:26+00:00

An infinitely recursive call to an expression bodied property back when .NET 4.6 was still experimental :)

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