ADOBE CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS SKIN

Indeed, this mesh must be viewed from inside and outside, so faces need to be set to double side. The second one 'double_mat' is only for the open object 'cloth', and you will assign a Double Sided flag, later in Virtools, to this material. The fisrt one 'body_mat' is for the objects 'Man', 'hat' and 'tool'. In this Hypershade view, you can see 2 materials, using the same texture file. For the UV tweaking, only the UV manipulations achieved in the Texture View are really saved during the exporting process. Moreover be very careful not to change any values inside the Place2DTexture node. If you experiment mapping projection for data real time exporting, donвЂ™t use Place3DTexture and Projection nodes as they donвЂ™t affect UV. ItвЂ™s the normal way to make a projection in order to write the mapping coordinates in the UV. In your Hypershade, you must notice that the image map is attached to the material by a Place2DTexture node. This texture compilation is a 256x256 image map where all UVs are precisely positioned. Then Cut Texture operations and UV transformations achieve the UV management in the Texture view. But every objects in this scene uses a single texture image. Notes that hands (parts of the 'Man' model are mapped with a Y planar projection like the 'hat', though the main body with 'cloth' and 'tool' uses a Z planar projection. Texturing To dress the character, a planar mapping is just created in the front view, on the mesh 'Man'. You see 'hat' and 'tool', two polygon models which will be simply parented to the joints. 'Man' is the principal mesh but 'cloth' will also be skinned to the root joint.

ADOBE CHARACTER ANIMATOR TUTORIALS SKIN

Although, you are able to skin other parts in the same time or parent others directly to a joint too. This Character is generally one block designed as it is skinned to a skeleton. Modelling In the beginning, you must use a polygonal definition of your character. You will see what kind of entities are animated and exported, then how different animations will be combined in Virtools on a single character. Before exporting, it helps you in the understanding of this sample scene. Even though this is a basic multi animation scene, you are bound to have a working knowledge of MayaвЂ™s joint, IK and texturing tools, as it is not a вЂhow to use MayaвЂ™ tutorial. Overview This tutorial is designed to show you the exporting data process from Maya to Virtools for a character animation scene. for a walk animation you should ensure that your character actually moves (translates) in your modeling application, and does not perform the animation in situ ('on the spot' or 'in place'). Note: Ensure the animations you create are 'real' in the sense that the Character actually performs them and does not 'pretend' to perform them - e.g. For other animations make sure the root moves a minimum in a walk animation along the Z axis for example, make sure that the root moves along the Z axis only - there should be no movement on the X or Y axes. In short: Make sure the (stationary) root element does not move at all when the character is in its default ('wait' or 'idle') animation. This is very important if you wish to use your Characters with the Virtools Mulituser Pack, or the dead reckoning algorithm used for predicting distributed objects will not work correctly. in an idle animation the root should not move). for walking, jumping etc.) but that does not move constantly (i.e. Characters should ALSO have a 'stationary root' that only moves relative to the floor reference (e.g. When jumping, the Character should increase it's distance from the FloorRef object to give the appearance of translation away from the floor. When walking or running, the character should stay at a constant height from the FloorRef object. Note: When creating animations, you should be very careful what you do with the FloorRef. 1.Overview 2.Modelling 3.Texturing 5.Skeleton and IKs 4.Keys 5.Export the character and its animations 6.Load the character in Virtools 7.Material & texture tuning 8.Merge animations & add behaviors 9.Conclusion

Adobe character animator tutorials