Whaleman sightings

[TheBigCheese]

Woo! I finally rigged the Whaleman! I don't know if this is a tribute or blasphemy. Anyways:







Next up is animations!

[Endoperez]

Nice? Were you able to do any special joints?

[TheBigCheese]

I could have, but I didn't want to spend the time trying to figure them out. Anyways, I'm uploading my animated whale as we speak.

Edit: Does anyone know how long it takes for youtube to process a video? It has horrible quality right now.

[TheBigCheese]

Alright, the whale man finally lives!



He walks backwards because he's so bad ass he doesn't need to see.

[John]

That is awesome.

[BlackHole]

Awesome!

I'm scared of what might be to come...

- Black
Chaos. Panic. Disorder. My work here is done.

[Freshbite]

This is awesome! I like that he's walking backwards, but it gives me the feeling that it is a cover-up for a minor mistake :P

[TheBigCheese]

This is awesome! I like that he's walking backwards, but it gives me the feeling that it is a cover-up for a minor mistake

I blame OpethRockr35 for modeling it backwards. Also I don't want to have to rig it again.

One thing I found is that rigging doesn't work well for small close limbs like fingers. It somewhat conglomerates them together, though that may be a factor of too large of resolution with the voxels.

[zamzx zik]

Pro

[TheBigCheese]

Also, though I'm sure David's already aware of it, the engine crashes when you try to attach a skeleton to anything bigger than about the size of the pillar object, which is why the whaleman is so small when I rigged him. Probably a voxel problem again, though I wonder whether voxels will be efficient at all for something as large as the original whaleman, since volume increases exponentially.

[phort99]

It's more a matter of the density. Voxels don't need to be a fixed size so ideally for a whale man larger voxels should be used.

[Poonhat]

THATS NO MOON
(at the idea of large voxels)

[Glabbit]

I'm lolling at the idea of the Whaleman looking like he's made out of Lego, regardless of whether he would or not.

Hah.
I want to get me some more lego blocks.

That walking whale is pretty sweet, by the way.
Do the whalewalk!

[Toby]

Oh dear god, what have you done!

[TheBigCheese]

It's more a matter of the density. Voxels don't need to be a fixed size so ideally for a whale man larger voxels should be used.

True, but they would need a system that accommodated all types of models. What if a very large tree model needed to be animated that had many thing roots and branches. The voxels would need to be small enough to fit them all without overlapping.

I'm sure it won't be a problem, just something to watch out for.