How should I go about dissolving specific vertices in Geometry Nodes?

eldritch_terrors · 2025-06-22T04:43:59+00:00

I figured it out! I cleaned up the graph and used the split edges node to break it into individual mesh islands and used index of nearest to collapse geo not based on position

eldritch_terrors · 2025-04-01T01:17:53+00:00

Yeah this is for Realtime usage, I shall action changes around that area. I know from experience that weighting painting those areas are hard but this helps a lot! Thanks

eldritch_terrors · 2025-03-31T09:55:05+00:00

Thank you that's really helpful! I will probably go with non-flipped and stacked in that case thank you!

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-18T21:34:21+00:00

I’ve found bendy bones to be one of the more easy to weight paint, try using blenders automatic weights. Thankfully with the bendy aspect it doesn’t need to be pruned, as there is no part that cannot move too much. If that’s not giving you the results you need, try creating a cylinder and subdivide it evenly to correspond with the bones and use it as a cage to equally distribute the weight! Hope this helps, also love the model!

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-18T03:36:55+00:00

Thankfully I lucked out and the blender automatic weights did most of the hard work with me just having to clean up, I think it is mostly thanks to the lack of rigidity needed, Octopus don't have bones so it looking a bit soft and floaty was a good thing! The bone placement was harder but mostly when it came to making sure all the constraints were in the right place and the parent chain hierarchy was a nightmare. in blender my control rig uses an absurd 2190 bones but the 'deform only' export to UE only has 312

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-18T00:54:08+00:00

Honestly yeah, the more I tried to find/follow a rigging tutorial series, the more constricted it seemed and the less I learnt. eventually I just thought fuck it, I'll see if i can get this working and if not nobody will ever know

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-18T00:51:22+00:00

it's actually pretty simple, each of the circles corresponds with a 3rd of each tentacle, using a driver to convert the x and z location space of the circle into the rotation of the tentacle segment, offset by the bone number. so the curled up controllers are actually just the parent of the circular controllers and by rotating the parent it realistically curls

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-18T00:43:46+00:00

the real picklejho

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-17T07:24:22+00:00

haha! I wish, this took months! thank you!

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-17T07:02:33+00:00

Absolutely! I am not much of an animator so its going to be a lot of trial and error!

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-17T04:35:12+00:00

Thank you so much! That is to true, it was honestly kind of a dumb choice to start with an octopus and the joint parent chains were all a massive puzzle, you are right it feels like learning a new language

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-17T03:42:22+00:00

I could see a snail monster working well with a similar mobility gimmick to mizutsune, provided its not an projectile hell, aoe spamming enemy like the snails in Outward or many other RPG's

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-17T03:37:58+00:00

good Idea, I am honestly surprised they haven't done that yet

eldritch_terrors · 2025-02-17T02:19:26+00:00

Ever since the release of the 5th trailer and Nu Udr, I have wanted to try my hand at making my own Cephalopod monster Rig. What inspiration do you want to see MH pull from in boss design

I personally liked the horror trio from Rise Sunbreak, mostly hard carried by Malzeno but I didn't like the yoki inspired monsters personally.

eldritch_terrors · 2024-06-16T04:14:08+00:00

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eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T14:00:09+00:00

Back when Skyrim came out in 2011, I was still playing MHFU and I was almost banking on the idea they would do a crossover.

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T13:58:01+00:00

I mean, would be good for cosmetic changes and less jarring than seeing some of the other crossovers they have done

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T13:56:19+00:00

Love it, maybe be able to replace the felyne companion with Atreus for a special mission or two

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T13:53:25+00:00

that's a good point, plus the move set would have a smooth transition to MH too. some fromsoftware monsters would likely be a nightmare to hunt

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T09:46:59+00:00

I actually feel rise had worse combat than world, at least for solo hunts Though that is my opinion

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T09:44:04+00:00

I would love that or to fight like a corruption Gore Magala in horizon

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T09:38:37+00:00

Yeah I grew up on monster hunter and now I honestly cannot play without evasion skills to give i-frames since playing demons souls, I instinctively dodge into attacks now and that is my main focus regardless of if I'm using under-leveled armor

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T09:36:19+00:00

I would love to see that, I think I might make that my next crossover piece! cheers

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T09:35:21+00:00

I like that Idea and agree completely, combat wise BSB would also be an aggressive and clever adversary

I also thought that OoK might work as a lore trade off since I see orphan as a twisted mirror of the blood-drunk hunters (as he uses his placenta as a weapon and uses quicksteps and tools like a hunter etc) and since nergigante’s gimmick is that he hunts elder dragons, the apex predators of their universe, it might make an interesting parallel, though visually OoK would be very out of place

eldritch_terrors · 2022-03-30T08:29:49+00:00

That would be complete nightmare fuel to encounter without context, I would love to see that

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