Stock bone skeleton & DRY
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:39 pm
* If this already exists on the Fahim top 10, I didn't see it. Apologies if its reinventing the wheel.
Anyone with experience of 3DMax will be aware of the Biped module, a stock bone rig which can be scaled and fitted to any humanoid figure.
It struck me last night whilst rigging that the same could be used for AS - s standard bone rig where all the bones and naming conventions are the same.
The advantage comes from the DRY principal, (Don't Repeat Yourself) - building walks and runs are repetitive and quite frankly, tedious. If you have a stock walk cycle, there are real advantages in exporting it as a reusable resource: In a studio situation or in a collaboration situation, one key animator could set up the distinctive double-bounce walk cycle for everyone else to import or use as a starting point for a new scene.
If the rig is based on the same naming convention, then there is potential for using Motion Capture information (though this is a scripting nightmare, translating 3D geometry into 2D space).
Certainly, there would be potential for commercial release of the motion data through the existing AS content shops, and I am sure newbies would find it much more useful since it is image independent.
Rhoel
Anyone with experience of 3DMax will be aware of the Biped module, a stock bone rig which can be scaled and fitted to any humanoid figure.
It struck me last night whilst rigging that the same could be used for AS - s standard bone rig where all the bones and naming conventions are the same.
The advantage comes from the DRY principal, (Don't Repeat Yourself) - building walks and runs are repetitive and quite frankly, tedious. If you have a stock walk cycle, there are real advantages in exporting it as a reusable resource: In a studio situation or in a collaboration situation, one key animator could set up the distinctive double-bounce walk cycle for everyone else to import or use as a starting point for a new scene.
If the rig is based on the same naming convention, then there is potential for using Motion Capture information (though this is a scripting nightmare, translating 3D geometry into 2D space).
Certainly, there would be potential for commercial release of the motion data through the existing AS content shops, and I am sure newbies would find it much more useful since it is image independent.
Rhoel