[jrhill]

Wow, awesome sculpting, great colors, great shader, great textures...

[Malignus]

Niiiiiiice--that looks great!

On the other hand, it may be a bad idea to set the bar that high for all your other assets, given your time constraints... :S

[BadMrBox]

Looking real good.
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[Codexus]

[Codexus]

So I did the whole skinning/rigging thing again using c4d's bones instead of joints and now the animation exports to Unity without problem.

I probably overdid the rigging with IK/FK switching controls, sliders to control the feet and a way to constrain the spanner to the hand or its rest position on the belt but that's going to be useful to create the animations.

So far I only have the "idle" done. I hope I can make a decent walk cycle. But it's already awesome to see my character "alive" in Unity :D

[Codexus]

So more Cinema 4D problems :D lol

So first it kept freezing when using the animation curves editor but fortunately I discovered that this bug only happens when the curves editor is running in a floating window and not when it's docked into the interface.

So I was able to do my walk cycle. However when importing the results into Unity I notices the frame number did not match and I couldn't loop my animation smoothly.

It turns out there is a problem with the FBX file that cinema 4d exports, some frames get repeated or skipped. Fortunately after saving the file in text format and comparing it with what I get with the Blender exporter, I found out that what is basically a search and replace in a text editor can fix the FBX files produced by Cinema 4D!! A few hours were wasted in the process...

Now I just need to turn that into some kind of script or command so that I don't have to it manually and I'll finally have a working art path for my game! (lol)

Here's my walk cycle animation. It's actually the first time I make one:

[jrhill]

That's really good for a first, man! Head bob, hip sway and everything.

[Jinroh]

[Codexus]

It's the final countdooooooown! tu-tu-tuu-tuuu tu-tu-tu--tu-tuuu :)

Well, I should get started then... Mmm, seriously I didn't do much yesterday besides finilazing my fbx fixing script and a few tests, as I was too tired. So now it seems unlikely I'll have a RPG by tonight.

Still, if I can get to something that at least looks like the beginning of a game even if it's not really playable that would be nice...

[jrhill]

Go go go!

[Codexus]

All right, it's 5:30 am, time to admit defeat and go to bed.

Here's my 10 days worth of work ^__^" (lol, that's pathetic)



"Play" it in your browser with the Unity plugin


Use cursors keys or WASD to walk around an empty room. You can't do anything, you can't die... except of boredom. :)

[RampantCoyote]

It looks good at least! Like a great start!
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[Codexus]

It's time for a Post-Mortem from the Crypt sort of thing!

I quickly realized that my character was going to take too much time and that my idea was way too big. For a week long project, I really shouldn't aim at anything more ambitious than for 48 hours one. There is just a little less pressure and more time for polish but not really for a much more complex game.

But I'm still glad I chose to continue with my model. While I have tried to make one or two characters before, I never really finished them (if you don't count the kind of blobs and stick figures that I use for 48h games). This time I was able to go from concept to animated in-game and that's really great as it's something I've always wanted to do but I was too lazy to actually do it.

Summary of how I used my time:

Day 1: Concept drawing
Day 2: Starting to model (first time using Modo, lost time due to that)
Day 3: Finishing the modeling
Day 4: Watched Doctor Who instead of working ;)
Day 5: Made the textures
Day 6: Skinning / Rigging (but unfortunately the method I used didn't work for exporting to Unity)
Day 7: Had to restart the rigging from scratch / Starting to animate
Day 8: More software problems / export is still not working properly / Animated the walk cycle
Day 9: Made a script to fix the exported files / Rest
Day 10: Created the room environment / Character and camera controls in Unity

So basically I lost a lot of time figuring out how to do things but that should really help me for the LD48 this week-end and I should be able to make much simpler animated characters for my game now that I have solved all the technical problems. Unfortunately I didn't get much Unity practice and I should really spend more time learning the engine.

Also I will continue this project as I'm motivated to do something with my new character and I find the idea inspiring. :)