Chill out and create life
Added 2021-02-24 10:17:38 +0000 UTCWhile testing out the plugins - I recorded a lot of videos because it was just too much fun! This is another video from a playtest where I combine the following
- Balance (ReBalance step template)
- ReAnimator (Loaded the simple arm/head muscle movement)
- Pose Camera
- Relax Gaze enabled (Eyes follow POIs)
- SubMotion (Random forces)
Comments
Thank you very much! It's exactly comments like this I really appreciate the most! The leg-movement in the balance is linear as you said! It's quite easy to adjust it with a cubic ease-in/out movement instead. I'll try that and see if it's improving the realism!
2021-02-24 17:36:29 +0000 UTCIt's very easy. Just Load the ReBalance step template in Balance. It's only the head that's keep the girl in T-Pose. I think I should create more tutorials/behind the scene videos instead.
2021-02-24 17:34:01 +0000 UTCHow do you get them into that fluid 'T-Pose' position? Every option I've tried puts them into the default VAM T-Pose and so muscle animations, etc don't work at all. The only way to get the animations to work is to drop them to the floor, and of course that means the animations don't look like anything in this video.
2021-02-24 14:24:44 +0000 UTCI Ann amazed at how far you have come and how quickly you have done it. There is one thing that I think would help with the “uncanny valley” though but I am not sure if it is possible. The movements seem to be binary or instantaneous when reacting to stimulus or balance. If there is a way to an exponential curve to movement acceleration, a ramping up of force on each motion, it would much better mimic life. She moves like she is made with servos that run a constant speed from point a to point b. With exponential, the speed of the movement from point a to b would be plotted on a curve that looks like a wave with the highest amplitude at the median point. Acceleration until the halfway point and deceleration until reaching point b.
George Hayduke
2021-02-24 13:03:25 +0000 UTC
