Hi, I’m experimenting with Skyline in general and, especially with its mesh import processing. At present I use this kind of workflow: from Makehuman (an open source 3d character generator), I import the mesh into Blender for animation purpose. Then I export the character towards Skyline in.fbx format, but the result does not seem to be always good. Infact, sometime there are artifacts that distort the mesh, cause I suppose, some issue in Blender.fbx exporter.
Therefore my question is as follow: it is possible to simplify this workflow? For example, may I import my character in Skyline and then assign to it in some way one or more animations (.bvh file)?
Could you suggest me some alternative paths? Thanks for your kind attention, best regards. I know from similar workflows using Mixamo, that if you export the animations into seperate.fbx formats, you can then add the animations onto the rig using skylines' mesh editor timeline. The original FBX should just have a character mesh & skeleton and no animations.
Then animations can be applied through separate files e.g. 'MyFBX@walk.FBX' etc. Blender FBX format has two modes, an ASCII version and a binary version, its worth trying both. As for.bvh files, currently we do not support this. But we do have plans for these files and also bone retargeting to allow any character to use similar animations. I will have a play and get back to you on this problem. Note: I do know that our FBX format seems to flip the normals on the characters if they are animated and exported from blender sometimes, we have had successful tests, but there is still something strange.
I put this down to our inexperience with using blender. Hint: There was something about rooting the bones to a parent bone or root object, this is to ensure the bones worked relative to the parent, rather than exporting loose bones. For now, if you have a.fbx, i can try editing it in another application and send you a working version back, to keep you rolling until we find a solution. Hope this helps. Tests done using MakeHuman V1.0.2 and Blender V2.71. First test: Create character in makehuman and apply rig.
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Export to.FBX Load FBX into skyline Success & no normal Errors and Skeleton was also imported. No animations yet Edit: Second Test: Create character in makehuman, select low poly proxy and game rig. Export to.dae as blender would not import the FBX, but skyline did in previous test Open Blender new scene. Start posing, select all bones using the box (B key), apply keyframe (i Key) 'locRotScale', to all.
Animate specific bones, like waving arms etc. Apply 'locRotScale' to all bones again for every single motion. Exit pose and go into object mode Use the B Key to select all parts of character, mesh and rig included. Goto Export FBX, Select Armature and mesh from properties. I Also had bake animations, NLA Strips and All Actions selected. Save the FBX, import into skyline.
The animation was slower than expected but that can be remade in blender. Made the material up and did not find any problems with normals etc. Successful test Edit: Here are the files that i was using, created from Make Human and animated in Blender: The FBX without ' is the the character exported from blender and has a simple basic animation that was made in blender, when imported into skyline it works. The ' FBX is the export from makehuman, it has no animation.
The blender file is also in the folder. Hi, ok, your tricks work very fine But, sorry for my insistence (be patient, please), I should define an efficient workflow, as simple as possible. I made several attempts and, if I am not wrong, Skyline is able to import a character using.dae format. In this way we could have a mesh complete with geometry, texture, skeletal and animations, that looks enough well defined, graphically speaking, and without any artifacts.
What do you think about this kind of solution concerning this topic? I tried with just one animation but I don’t know how much animations could we import in any.dae file. Skyline Initiate Posts: 18 Joined: 10 Oct 2013, 17:26 Location: Italy.
I am trying the character as a.dae to see how it goes it imports fine, so i am working on a skeletal animation now in blender, then will try to import the animation onto this character. As for a dae with all seperate animations, i don't know how to do this, so experimentation will be needed. But if you have a single timeline of animations, then you can use the mesh editor to split them apart like in this thread: Note:.dae is a good format, but we have had problems in the past with it.
We use the open source Assimp library to help with the conversions of multiple formats apart from FBX and the Proprietary format of.mesh,.skeleton. So just be aware that dae may not always work, but if it works for you, then great Edit: Just tried this workflow: Import dae into skyline from MakeHuman Animate in blender Export animation as dae.
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Import loaded character into mesh editor Try to add.dae to timelin. As the mesh editor will only add animations from FBX files. New attempt needed. If you get weird animations, like the arms starting from the center of the chest. This is due to the bones not being connected, they are just parented.
This could be a problem of our importer not reading parents as connections. But at least you can get around this issue, using this technique. In Blender, select the bone that goes wrong and where it says parent, click connected. This fixed my problems. Then export as.FBX and import into skyline, voila.
Animated correctly. Note: I have only had success using the FBX export from blender. Best Workflow for Blender: Export from MakeHuman as.dae. import.dae into Blender. Animate, connect bones etc.
Export as FBX. Blender also has a way of exporting seperate animations in the.fbx file.
Maybes check out some tutorial videos Even the speed is matched on the FBX file. Edit: I am recording a video tutorial on makehuman to skyline with animations through blender.
I am working on a mod that it is heavily influenced by the Call of Duty Nazi Zombies. I know that you may have seen several other mods like that but still I wanted to create something similar, so here I am with a Doom 2 Mod. First of all I wand to say that this is an early working alpha. ( Also, sorry for my English.) Things I have to do before the real release are: 1.
Better level and more levels. Some improvements to the zombie graphics and maybe more Zombies. Create some better and more textures. ( what I have right now are the testing textures) 4.
(I can really use some help with this.) 5. Last but not least thing is to make changes so it will not look like a copy cat of the original Nazi Zombie Game.
Also I wand to tell some more things about the procedure of the creation of the Zombie. I used MakeHuman to create the Zombie. Then I changed the texture to look like zombie with Gimp. Then I imported the MakeHuman model in Blender.
Animated it and I wrote a little script in Blender to rotate the model and save it's render relative to the naming of Doom Sprites. This script made the whole zombie sprites possible. Also I wand to tell that I am open in suggestions.
Any suggestion and please tell me if this project can be replaced by any SkullTag game mode. I have to use any doom port for mods for more than 10 years. But with all those new tools like DoomBuilder and Slade and with this excellent port( Zdoom) I find zdoom moding very attractive. Edit: Some pics: Spoiler.