>> The animation retargeting tools mentioned below, would be able to map >> the mesh, animation and skeleton when the artist makes changes? >> >> I would love to be able to "morph" the bones of the skeleton, such >> that you could make a tall man and a short man with the same skeleton >> that could use all the same animations. > > There is already some animation retargeting tools in CS (the > iSkeletonRetargetNode animation node), but it won't currently work > at all > with skeletons that are very different. > > For that it would need some more advanced tools, which can be made > eg by > leveraging on the Inverse Kinematics animation nodes. The most > realistic > scenario would probably be to use a set of various animations (eg 3 > different walk for a big, a tall, and a normal guy), then blend > between > them depending on the actual skeleton.
I'm largely ignorant of the technical details, which leaves me free to throw out possibly stupid or insane questions, such as: Would it be possible to tag the vertices and bones to provide "hints" for retargeting. Something along the lines of creating a vertex group "knee" that would be associated with the "knee" joint in the skeleton? And does it follow that retargeting may largely be an issue of tracking the joint positions when the bones are scaled, such that vertices that define the knee are translated to stay with the knee joint when the thigh is lengthened, the "hip" vertices are unchanged, and the vertices between them stretch proportionally? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
