Bookmarked, I’ll come back to this in the coming months, cheers
Hello all,
Very pleased to announce that the Window version of Creature now has a new GPU Accelerated Dark Theme UI:
Cheers
Best ever. Good stuff!
Hello all,
There is now new functionality to trigger frame callbacks at specific frames of your character animation in the Creature Plugin for UE4!
This is useful to spawn sound effects ( for footsteps ) or particle effects etc.
Cheers
I would like to share my experience using Creature for our upcoming game Spartan (Stream, XB1 and PS4).
Sinister Cyclops Game Studios started developing Spartan using UE4’s Paper2D plugin.
We had great success in the beginning but as we started improving our craft and our understanding of game development in general ,we realized that we, using a sprite based approach was not ideal for many reasons.
Just to name a few: Project size, Animation smoothness ,VRAM consumption and most important of all draw calls and performance.
Then it came to our attention a newly released software that gave us the opportunity to use one texture for a million animations while tweening real time our animations for the most buttery smooth result imaginable!
Since then, the Creature team has worked tirelessly day and night to cater to its customer needs and create the best and only solution currently in the UE4 ecosystem for 2d games and animation.
Since most of you know how much I have fought and criticized the lack of development for Paper2d, it gives me great joy to be able to finally start using Anim notifies for my 2D animations! The latest addition to the Creature arsenal that in my book makes Flipbooks obsolete for most uses. Just by using this new feature I managed to improve 4ms of my CPU thread for consoles!!
If it wasn’t for Creature, we would had probably stopped development or switched to another engine.
I would like to personally thank Mr.Chong for always having our backs and working hard to support us
So if you are even remotely interested in creating anything 2D you should give it a try. It will bring your game to the next level!
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Hello all,
The latest update to Creature now allows you to author events directly from the Creature Editor itself and export into UE4 for gameplay triggers:
Cheers
Hello all,
A new revolutionary new feature called Deep AI Walk is now available for Creature Pro ( Windows )! Harness the power of Deep Learning to generate realistic human biped Walk Cycles with Deep AI Walk.
Check out the tutorial video here:
Hello all,
I am pleased to announce the brand new functionality called Live Sync, which allows you to sync up animation changes Live between UE4 and Creature Pro ( Windows ).
This brand new feature should help greatly in your animation asset authoring workflow between the UE4 Game Engine Editor and the Creature Animation Tool.
More info:
Please grab your latest Creature UE4 runtimes here:
Cheers
Can Creature be used for Front/Back Animations, too?
Would be great to Animate TopDown RPG Characters (seperated sprites and animations per direction).
Hello,
Yes, you just give it a top down character perspective in your image atlas and animate the legs/hands moving side ways.
Cheers
Hello all,
Please to announce the availability of using Bend Physics Motors Live from within the UE4 environment. This means you can do 2D dangling items like hair/cloth etc. easily running off UE4’s default physics solver.
Cheers
Hello all,
The 3D to 2D Mocap Transfer feature for Creature has been recently updated to allow you to amplify not just translational but also rotational motion as well!
Here is a preview video of what it does:
Also, you can now do item, clothing, hair, weapon swapping in the UE4 plugin using the newly introduced Skin Swapping feature!
Skin Swapping Tutorial:
UE4 Tutorial:
You can grab the latest Creature Runtimes for UE4 here:
Cheers
Hello all,
Big feature updates have gone into the Creature animation tool in the past few months.
Here are the latest feature trailer videos:
Quite a few UE4 titles in this one:
Some exciting new features include the ability to take a 3D mesh, convert it into a 2D animated asset but light it up in 3D in Real-time:
Animation Controllers for advanced Animation Control have also been recently added:
Cheers
Hello all,
You can now run Morph targets in real-time, allowing 2D characters to have 3D head turning/tracking movement!
