BogusIndustries

Fixing the 3rd person control tutorial

2016-10-07T15:43:00.001-05:00

Ahh advancement. As soon as you find how to do something it's out of date and no longer works. My latest youtube post is of my game progress with a link to a playlist of the tutorial I used to create the character control. I can't find the comment that fixes all the broken things so here it is

PlayerCamera Adjustments for use in Unity 5 --!!!!!
(Minor PlayerTarget adjustment included at bottom of comment as well)
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Updated Cursor display & Cursor lock --

In Start();

Screen.showCursor = false;

//Replace with

Cursor.visible = false;
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Screen.lockCursor = true;

//Replace with

Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;

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In Update();

Screen.showCursor = !Screen.showCursor;

//Replace with

Cursor.visible = !Cursor.visible;

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Screen.lockCursor = !Screen.lockCursor;

//Replace with

Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;

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for the CameraMovement();

Declare

public Camera theCam;

In Start(); add

theCam = gameObject.GetComponent();

||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Then replace Camera in CameraMovement(); with theCam

So instead of looking like this...

if (playerController.aim){
Camera.fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp (Camera.fieldOfView, zoomFOV, _deltaTime * lerpSpeed);

_camDir = (aimDirection.x * target.forward) + (aimDirection.z * target.right);
_targetHeight = normalAimHeight;
_targetDistance = normalAimDistance;
}
else{
Camera.fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp (Camera.fieldOfView, normalFOV, _deltaTime * lerpSpeed);
_camDir = (normalDirection.x * target.forward) + (normalDirection.z * target.right);
_targetHeight = normalHeight;
_targetDistance = normalDistance;
}

-------- it will look like this...

if (playerController.aim){
theCam.fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp (theCam.fieldOfView, zoomFOV, _deltaTime * lerpSpeed);

_camDir = (aimDirection.x * target.forward) + (aimDirection.z * target.right);
_targetHeight = normalAimHeight;
_targetDistance = normalAimDistance;
}
else{
theCam.fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp (theCam.fieldOfView, normalFOV, _deltaTime * lerpSpeed);
_camDir = (normalDirection.x * target.forward) + (normalDirection.z * target.right);
_targetHeight = normalHeight;
_targetDistance = normalDistance;
}

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| This way everything should work for you in the PlayerCamera script.

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Also in PlayerTarget if the use of

gui = guiTexture;

in Start();

is giving you problems simply delete or comment it out and add

gui = gameObject.GetComponent();

Better alpha settings for Maya Fluids

2015-04-02T14:50:00.001-05:00

When rendering a fire pass using Maya fluids, we noticed the fire looks great over black but looks horrible when composited (left example). A simple adjustment of the matte opacity to 2 instead of the default of 1 results in the effect on the right. Much better!

Logo Dissolve Test 02

2014-12-15T17:26:00.001-06:00

Logo dissolve test using animated bird instances

Logo Dissolve Test

2014-12-15T14:50:00.001-06:00

Dissolving a logo with a flock of birds

Ground Impact Test Maya

2014-10-20T10:38:00.001-05:00

Ground impact dust and debris. Maya fluids were used for main dust cloud which drives smaller particle debris. Instances also used which additionally emit more particle debris. Expressions used to control emit per particle rates. Another layer of sprites were added for more subtle dust.

Fluid Driven Particles

2014-09-22T12:59:00.001-05:00

R&D for effect requiring particle sprites to be driven by fluids

Repeatable Simulation Results in Maya Using Seed

2014-09-12T13:25:00.001-05:00

In this tutorial I show you how using the seed command can help you get repeatable results while you're working to help you get the exact look you're going for before you cache. To change the result, multiply the id by any number. Changing the number id is multiplied by will give you different results. Here's a link to randomly instancing objects tutorial: http://ift.tt/1qsIeoy SUBSCRIBE! http://ift.tt/1oD5Yka Find more at http://ift.tt/1qsIeVm

Compression Wave Test Render

2014-08-12T15:05:00.001-05:00

Extremely basic lighting for this test. It needs a lot of work and optimization. Currently renders at about 2hr/frame

Wipeout 3 Cinematic

2014-08-06T18:06:00.003-05:00

Opening cinematic for Activision's Wipeout 3. I did all character rigging.

Target Halloween 2012

2014-08-06T18:06:00.001-05:00

Target Halloween spot 2012

Explosion Test - Maya Fluids

2014-07-31T15:18:00.001-05:00

Low res playblast of explosion test from multiple views.

Compression Wave - Maya FLuids

2014-07-30T18:04:00.001-05:00

Playblast of an element for an explosion. Playing 4 times slower than render due to sampling.

Shockwave Test - Maya Fluids

2014-07-28T11:22:00.001-05:00

A Maya fluids test of a shockwave element inspired by Video Copilot's shockwave pack. Slight re-timing done if After Effects. So many options for this for different results. Might have to make more! Check out Video Copilot's assets here: http://ift.tt/1s6ArbT

Snow Footprints Test

2014-07-24T15:09:00.001-05:00

Some simulation elements of a character running through snow.

Bubble Wipe Test

2014-06-18T13:19:00.007-05:00

A test for screen wipe transitions in Activision's Plankton's Robotic Revenge Game Cinematic. I used Michael Bublé because his name sounds like bubble. Great joke.

Krusty Krab Explosion Test

2014-06-18T13:19:00.005-05:00

Test for Activision's Plankton's Robotic Revenge game cinematic. Shot was eventually cut.

Object wave test 02

2014-06-18T13:19:00.003-05:00

Early test of waves made of objects.

Object wave test 01

2014-06-18T13:19:00.001-05:00

Early test for a wave made of objects.

2014-04-03T14:45:00.001-05:00

Working on some instancing techniques to make a dandelion. Perhaps the next tutorial?!?!?!?!

Motion Capture Test

2014-03-26T17:49:00.001-05:00

Using the software ipisoft http://ipisoft.com/ we are testing using motion capture in projects with lots of animation to take a bit of work off our animator. The video shows a test of me doing some basic moves with the clothing combination I think is working the best. This test is using 4 PS3 Eye cameras set in a half circle around the action due to limited space at work. The software also supports the Microsoft Kinect (up to 2). You can read about the software and its capabilities at the link above. The character can be found at www.mixamo.com and can be downloaded for free after setting up an account. All of these tests are for a super secret project we are bidding on. If we get the job I'll be sure to have more videos explaining this specific process of motion capture and also getting the data into a usable and adjustable state in Maya. Here's hoping!

Constrain a Skinned Skeleton to a Control Rig

2014-03-06T12:58:00.000-06:00

A lot of times video games will use basically the same skeleton for all their characters. When we get these characters for cinematics we usually get the character and a skeleton which it is attached or "skinned" to. They don't, however, usually come with any controls. Generally our process is to create a single control rig and then constrain the skinned skeleton to that control rig. So instead of creating many separate rigs we can import our control rig into each character's scene and constrain the already skinned skeleton to our control rig. This way we don't have to change any skin weights and can get characters into Maya at a useable state very quickly without having to redo any work that has already been done. The following is a script I wrote to help automate the process.

//get selection
string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
//make sure only the 2 root joints are selected
if(size($sel) != 2){
error "Please select root joint of source skeleton then root joint of target skeleton";
}
//select all joints in source (control) skeleton and add to an array
select -hi $sel[0];
string $source[] = `ls -sl`;
//select all joints in target (skinned) skeleton and add to an array
select -hi $sel[1];
string $target[] = `ls -sl`;
// parent constrain the root joints
parentConstraint $source[0] $target[0];
print ("parent constrained " + $target[0] + " to " + $source[0] + "\n");
//loop through the rest of the joints and orient constrain them
int $i;
for($i = 1; $i < size($source); $i ++){
orientConstraint $source[$i] $target[$i];
print ("orient constrained " + $target[$i] + " to " + $source[$i] + "\n");
}

Controlling Joints with Dynamic Hairs in Maya

2014-02-03T08:10:00.001-06:00

In this tutorial I cover how to control a set of joints with a dynamic hair and also how to connect it into a rig so it will scale properly. This technique works great for tails, tentacles, ropes, chains etc. If you'd like to download the file to dig deeper you can find the links here http://ift.tt/MRKl3R

Testing Google connectivity

2014-01-22T16:30:00.002-06:00

if this works, this post should show up on the bogusIndustries google+ page. did it work?!?!?!

Bogus Camera Tools 1.0

2014-01-21T17:19:00.001-06:00

Here is another tool I've been writing to help control cameras in your scene without having to dig through Maya to find them. I do a lot of modeling that requires the models to match a background plate and using the overscan function allows me to zoom in to make sure everything is lining up without moving the camera (which is usually locked off). I found it very annoying to have to dig through Maya to find my camera and adjust this setting. This UI allows you to have access to all cameras in your scene (up to 11 including the 4 default cameras) and the attributes I most frequently need to change. You can click here to download for free or use the button below if you feel like it's worth a few bucks. By all means try it for free first! Feedback, bug reports, and feature requests would be greatly appreciated!

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Select All the animation curves in your scene

2014-01-16T14:59:00.000-06:00

Ever wanted to select ALL of the animation curves in your scene? Just type this MEL command:
select -r `ls -typ animCurve`;