Animation & Skelton Retargeting

 Author: Josiah Jones   

    So since I've recently received my models an animations for enemies, my main focus right now is to get them all connected and working as they should. Unfortunately two of my enemies did not come with animations, so I had to find animations for them using Mixamo. When I got all the animations and tried them, none of them worked well with the two enemies as the skeletons were not basic human skeletons. 

    To fix this problem I simple went and grabbed a model from Mixamo then applied all the animations to that model. After that I made a IK rig for both the Mixamos skeleton and my enemies skeleton and then retargeted the animations from the Mixamo to my skeleton. That solved one enemies issue the other even though when retargeted seemed to work but after exporting the animations they stop working for some reason, this issues still hasn't been solved.

IK Rig for my Enemy:


Notes: Retargeted skeleton to match Mixamos Skeleton.

IK Rig for Mixamo: 

                            


Notes: Retargeted Skeleton so I could give my Skeleton same targets.

Retargeting Animations:


    


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Procedural Generation - Room NavMesh Spawning

Image
 Author: Najee Jackson Problem When generating rooms, enemies didn't spawn, so the player just walked around in an empty level. To fix this, I wanted to create a spawner in each room of a certain size, but the spawner only worked in areas with valid nav meshes. My level had none in it since it was procedurally generated, which resulted in the spawner not spawning enemies, and if it did, enemies would not move since they couldn't find a valid NavMesh. Solution To fix this, I wanted to spawn a Navmesh Bounds Volume whenever a room was created, but I soon learned that you couldn't spawn NavMesh Bounds in Unreal Engine 5. After learning this, I searched for ways to spawn a nav mesh in a procedurally generated map. I wanted to avoid creating a giant Nav Mesh encompassing the entire map. Since I feared that the spawner would spawn enemies far away from the player, it also would be a waste of processing power to have an active nav mesh in areas that enemies never use. One way that...
Read more

Powerups and Wall clipping

Image
  Author: Colyn Reed Problem          For this week, I continued working on having a working map for the player to navigate and explore. On this map, I added powerups for the player to pick up. The power ups I added was the Health boost powerup which gives the player more max health and a speed boost powerup which gives the player more max speed. Along with the powerups, I added wall clipping so that the player doesn't get lost behind any walls. Solution     Getting the players max health to change was the first issue I ran into. I had to create a whole new event inside the health component that changes the max health of the player instead of changing the current health of the player. The speed boost powerup was easier to manage except that its hard to notice at first when you pick it up, but once you get it stacked its noticeable. For the wall clipping, I had to create a whole new material for the walls and the hardest part with that was get...
Read more