Bigger, stronger (but not faster updates…)

Ameliorations never ends. Since last version, I’ve upgraded the dorsal reactor (Left : Before; Right : After).
I found the previous one was nice but a little simple. This one is much more detailed.

From WIP

I’ve spent a lot of time on this for two reasons :
- I wanted something as intricated as the rest of the armor.
- Blender 2.5 changed a lot of shortcut keys and often crashed on me when using the “solidify” modifier.

And here is what it gives on the whole character in preview mode.
I forgot to mention that I worked on upgrading the whole armor too.
Added more details like synthetic muscles bundles…

Enjoy the view.

From WIP

Time to look at the whole character again… III

Things that have been updated are :
- the face texture (previous one was horrible…)
- made a helmet
- detailed the shoes a little bit more

Enjoy (?)

From

Bullets + Blender + Bricks = Fun(?)

I tried to do a video with Blender animations and Bullet Physics middleware.

It’s… nice…

But very amateurish looking…

Animation wise it… sucks? I still have to work on that…

As for the physics dynamic it looks great. Greater than what I would have obtained if I had to manually animate each bricks myself.

But it suffer from lack of control…

First you can’t activate Bullet only when you need it. Hence the Jello effect in the beginning, as the physics engine is fighting to find an equilibrium. A button to activate deactivate physics keying would be nice.
If you could just activate it when the character hit the wall for example…

Then it produces a massive load of action keys. It almost crash blender each time I switch to IPOs or Action editor… But it would be nice to vizualise both Physics and Armature actions without freezing the software. I had a hard time coordinating the punch animation and the actual “brick falling dynamic” because of that.

Adjusting the timestep vs. frame ratio would be interesting also for slow motion things.

Well. Quite happy for now. But if you have advices to make this better, I’m listening…

… I mean I’m reading…

Time to look at the whole character again… II

Well it’s been some times since I had a look at the whole character.

This means it’s time for a…

From Misc

Today I worked on enhancing the hand rigging…

And I really really have to get to work on that face texture…

From WIP

Detailed view of the “two and a half” sword

Added more details to the sword.

I think it looks pretty cool and dangerous

One handed style

From WIP

Two handed style

From WIP

Now that’s what I call a knife II

The first knife was crap. At least compared to the one I am working on for the moment.

This one can be hold in one hand and can deploy to be used as a two handed sword.

Now, that’s what I call a knife…

After receiving feedback that the two kukris weren’t that much impressive…

From WIP

Is that impressive enough now? (fortunately, wearing a power armor does have some advantages…)

It also shows that some part of the armor really need more details, but I would really like to advance in learning how to animate this kind of characters…