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The Next Stage of Dust3D: for Monster Animation Clips Making
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My initial target for Dust3D has been achieved, I can use it myself to finish a 3d model in minutes which could took me half day while using traditional 3d softwares, as a newbie modeler.
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.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huxingyi/dust3d/master/docs/examples/modeling-camel/modeling-camel-dust3d-screenshot.png
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I made this software mostly for myself to speed up the game assets making. Now, I can easily make model and colorize it, and got the model auto-rigged, the next step is to speed up the short animation clips making, such as walk, run, dead, attack... and so on.
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Just as the modeling process, I want make this animation progress’s workload as small scale as possible, then I can finish the whole progress without outsourcing it, say, as a indie game developer.
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Currently, I have some initial plans,
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1. Based on some physics simulation or other algorithms, auto generate skeleton animations.
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2. Use webcam to capture video, and analyze the motion from video by using OpenCV or Tensorflow.
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I prefer the webcam method, because I can easily do it myself, if I want some weird animation, especially for master characters, and maybe it is hard to represent as a simulation or algorithm.
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This animation making should be very simple, no facial or muscles motion capture, just coarse motion, walk, run, dead, attack, for low poly model.
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Just as I post my modeling software initial plan in 2016 from scratch,
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https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/5iuf3h/i_am_writting_a_3d_monster_model_generate_tool/
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.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huxingyi/dust3d/331889ece938c463f449a226fc353e26ed39d6bc/screenshot/dust3d_sphere_cylinder.png
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and got it first dev release shipped in 2018. Thanks for the wonderful Redditors.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/8dfihy/dust3d_a_brand_new_3d_modeling_software_for_game/
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.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huxingyi/dust3d/master/docs/examples/modeling-ant/modeling-ant-dust3d-screenshot.png
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I have shared my full progress here_, including how I back and forth in Qt/C++ choice, and how the Rust language is been used as the core algorithm implementation.
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.. _here:: https://dust3d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/origin-and-future.html
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I wish this post is my new start of the game making journey, **please leave a comment on reddit website to share what's the best idea to achieve the monster animation task, thanks.**
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(I will append the reddit link here when I made this post public on reddit)
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