Animation | Dencho

Physics Based Procedural Animations [02]

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Calibrating the muscle joints on big Boss Character.

This character is for a physics based combat system I cant exactly talk about due to an NDA.

For calibration and debugging physics I setup quick disposable testbed logic that might look pretty weird out of context.

When done right, this guy will struggle to move objects with heavier mass than others. This is what it looks like when moving all objects with the same mass.

And this is why we calibrate.

AI Mob Controller [05]

Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This experiments goal was to iterate on my previous AI Controllers and refine the locomotion and procedural animations.

I spent a good amount of focus on the making sure procedural animations work with physics.

The result allowed me to play an animation, and have physics forces affect it in a nice good lerpy way.

Next I applied the same system to another nonstandard skeleton.

Inverse Kinematic Vending Machine

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Contracted to make a "Smart" Vending Machine feature designed to work with VR Players.

NDA Prevents me from showing the UI or final outcome of the feature.

The goal was to create a Vending Machine that had a would automatically adjust to the VR Players Height via a Robot Arm controlled by Inverse Kinematics.

The teams technical artist provided the Vending Machine mesh with armature for the screens housing. The first step was connect the bones to a simple Inverse Kinematic script.

Next I see how it targets the Players Head transform.

With a bit of some C# magic, the Arm for the screen will extend out to any nearby Players Head transform. When the target is out of range for x+ seconds, the screen will retract back into the machine.

Physics Based Procedural Animations [01]

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I love working on physics based animations.

I love procedural animations, most system use Inverse Kinematics to accomplish this, as do my systems. However I wanted to take it to the next level and allow dynamic blending between Inverse Kinematics and Physics Simulations.

This should allow my to play a Humanoid animation on the skeleton while still applying IK to the bones, and lerp between a "Live" and "Ragdoll" state for the characters physics body.

Its far from perfect and I still need to find a use case but, its still fun to look at.

Horror Style Mobs

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Contract to add horror themed mobs to a VR experience. NDA prevents me from showing the finished prototype.

I used an asset pack and custom texture from a FilterForge plugin.