WHO
Dana Cowley, Senior Marketing Manager
Lina Halper, Senior Engine Programmer
Ivey, Community Manager
Matthew Russell, Lead Animator
Mixamo has generously released 15 of their most popular characters and 7 versatile animations in the Marketplace FOR FREE. We’ll show you how to get started with new content today. We’ve shipped example character and animation Blueprints in the MixamoAnimPack so you can easily drive everything through visual scripting. Mixamo will be hanging out in the live chat to say hi and answer questions as well.
Please tune in and sound off with any questions here. See you soon!
I know that when you say Animation, you probably mean 3D Animation, but I would still like to give it a shot with a Paper2D related Animation Question:
Will there be something like Animation Blueprints for 2D Animation, with Statemachines and all its glory. I’d also like to know if it will be possible to reskin 2D Animations between different Sprite Sheets, that have the same Layout.
I assume you might mention anyway but retargeting and mirroring like @ said especially being able to retarget prop joints and again mirroring props. We make sports games and always have to deal with left and right handed characters
It would be really amazing as mentioned to have mirroring, though I’m unaware how difficult that would be to handle in-engine.
Also an animation that would be really nice is being able to pause/resume and set it to specific frames which as far as I’ve seen is something unavailable at the moment (though pause/resume at least can technically be achieved already in a round about way with setting play rate a pause/resume would be far simpler to handle).
Would also really appreciate having some idea about what the most costly/least costly animation methods (Montage, Sequence, slots, blends, etc) are to try and optimize as best as possible.
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Also would it be possible to have a tickbox added to the ‘Set All Bodies Below Simulate Physics’ blueprint anim node to ‘include named bone’, because currently for example if you have a simplified character skeleton that doesn’t have collarbones, you won’t be able to just have one arm simulated with physics, because you would need to choose the chest bone to start simulating below-which would include both arms and the neck/head.
How much Animation manipulation can you do with in blueprint. I.E play at point, play section, reverse, play rate. If not can we expect to maybe see that in a letter update? -Atec
Do you have any demos in the pipeline to showcase facial animation techniques? Bones? Blendshapes? Mix? How about facial motion capture? Any of you or anyone here on the forums used Brekel’s Kinect(original) Facial mocap app?
To echo some questions I saw earlier:
I’m sure by now many have seen David Rosen’s GDC Talk by now and been impressed with the results. Denny has a pretty cool research thread here tackling some of the limits.
I also agree there’s a case to made for procedural and physics driven or at least physics modified animation. Pretty tired of seeing weapons clip through without any physical impact and force(that isn’t baked), or seeing the same animation replay over and over. So I’m hoping to not just see more Overgrowth style animation become possible or demonstrated(for non coders), but also something like Bare Mettle’s(Not Unreal Engine) Sui Generis game:
My plan involves cheap mocap and physics to add variation. My tests with physics blending were pretty weak I admit, kept breaking things.
Hi,
I would love to see some “Tips and Tricks” dealing with the use of Animation Blueprints. One I am having problems with is that I have a character that needs a different set of animations for basic motions based on a weapon type (i.e. pistol, rifle, rocket launcher etc). What’s the best way to deal with in the animation blueprint?
Is it possible to remove or skip cameras from a matinee director group at play time? And if the camera is removed, could the cameras behind it in the timeline be moved up to fill the gap?
For example: I have a camera for each building, At the end of the game I want a cinematic of the buildings that are left standing, but I want to skip the ones that are destroyed.
