3d Character animation workflow for 3rd person character

Gowydot

FYI ai animation 😅

kuligs2

Gowydot the two minute guy is not really for productuon use.. he just shows what "researchers" wrote/made, but its really not usable at home, without proprietary licences... maybe in 2-5 years someone open source this and tech ill be up to date that we can try this at home for cheaps.

Look at unity drama rn.. fool me once.. shame on you.. fool me twice.. 😃.. Never trust no body..

xyz

Two minute guy's fake enthusiasm is really annoying. I can't stand watching his videos. They lack objectivity and critical thought.

kuligs2

xyz i think he is a paid nvidia shill, given he was around nvidia HQ not too long ago too, promoting AI stuff that is only achievable with nvidia GPUs.

xyz

kuligs2 Likely. He was tolerable before, but after the whole ai hype happened it's almost like he turned into his own parody. The amount of toxic positivity he exudes is just unbearable.

Gowydot

kuligs2

More info on basic AnimationTree tutorial

Animation StateMachine node with conditions. I haven't used this node much before but it looks powerful.

That should help you to get started. The first step is setting up your character to a rig and animate them before import to godot. Since you plan to use rigify I can't help much (I make my own simpler rig), but tutorials should be widely available.

One thing I'd point out is take care on how you use parameters in code.

eg. AnimationNode:

Transition
$AnimationTree.set("parameters/Transition/transition_request", "floor")
Blend2
$AnimationTree.set("parameters/Blend2/blend_amount", 1)
BlendSpace1D
$AnimationTree.set("parameters/BlendSpace1D/blend_position",1.0)

I always get confused when to use blend_amount or blend_position 😅

kuligs2

Gowydot ive seen these before, but they dont explain much about what animations you need for a character.. i know its a matter of taste, but thanks.

xyz

kuligs2 Your question is artistic in its essence, not technical. An animator will be able to answer it best. Go ask it in the community populated by animators.

kuligs2

xyz not really, its technical. like do i need walk backwards or can you hook up so that the walk forwards plays backwards?
do you need walk sideways or you just rotate character on y axis and just reuse the walk forward? etc etc..

Tomcat

kuligs2 not really, its technical. like do i need walk backwards or can you hook up so that the walk forwards plays backwards?
do you need walk sideways or you just rotate character on y axis and just reuse the walk forward? etc etc..

These are precisely issues of perception. Whatever you decide is the right thing to do. But for others to be able to express their opinion, they need to see the concrete implementation.

xyz

kuligs2 Everything is "technical" if you've been brainwashed into believing artists "are no longer needed".

In any case, you can build your animation set iteratively. You don't need to have a list of everything beforehand. Start by making a few basic ones like walk and idle, test them in practice and add what seems to be missing. Repeat until you have a set you're satisfied with. It's as simple as that.

Gowydot

kuligs2
Sounds like a design issue so this is really up to you. I only planned which animation node to use as root and started with core animations like idle walk run jump, then keep adding more to it. You will find the need to shift + change how you manage the tree as you go.

Or you could just follow this.

Don't worry about making mistakes. I've redone/reimport animated models so many times it didn't break anything (godot 4.4).
And to be honest I feel like most of my issues started in Blender. (eg. I didn't do stuffs correctly before exporting.)

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