Choosing (or creating) a skeleton to support all kinds of animations and fully leverage UE4.14 animation features might turn out to be a serious task, unless you have already done it.
We are using perception neuron for the body capture which then processed to make production quality Mocap animation and we built the facial Mocap solution built from scratch using python and some custom hardware.
Here are the links: We are planning to create a Mocap Pack for Unreal Marketplace, for that we need to sort down a list of animations that is required by most of the game developers.
We are planing to give away FREE MOCAP animations for whom ever gives us a list of animations they require to continue their ambitions project.
Maybe you can also try to do some stunts like somersaults etc.
Some non-combat military: doing pushups, or other exercises, saluting, marching:forward, turning, standing etc.
Full ground contact crawling (like under barbwire fence in training).
PS: you should put a marker on the tip of the nose, in that first video the characters nose goes all crazy since it has too much influence form that upper lip one, and it shouldnt.
A pack of wounded animations -- limping, holding arm, holding head, etc -- and combat medic animations -- surgery, bandaging, etc -- would also be helpful.
Basically were looking for facial animations for different moods, list down below: Happy, Excited, Inpatient, Bored, Disappointed.
Was wondering if its in your scope of things youd be able to put up working in Unreal environment.
A nice change though is instead of a package covering a bunch of general animations it would be nice to have smaller matched sets based on a theme set up with ready to use blendspaces and animation BPs.
An 8-way movement package ready to plug and play that takes into account stopsstarts turns has value over and above raw individual clips.
A take down package as unique to a theme becomes and impulse purchase over buying an 80 dollar package just to get the few that are of use.
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As a thoughidea as a (cough cough) professional animator I do not buy mocap animations as to what I need but based on price and fair use licensing that I can make us in any project I wish.
A question I have though is whos framework are you using Is this a custom rigging solution necessary to to match with your animation sets or are you using Epics base rig A bonus idea.
Animations is not bound by any unique 3d space so a open marketplace to check out is over at daz3d.com.
If you check out available animation packages, more so for the G3 framework there is very little, are not that good, and very expensive as compared to what is available on Epics marketplace.
A little retargeting work to Genesis 3 and you could sell your product into a much larger, and focused, marketplace.
In case of attack weapon would point towards the target (to the front).
Usually when you stand at a bus stop and wait, your thoughts wander around, and your face is not still - there are some subtle animations going on, both on your face and sometimes involving your hands.
You get dreamy, you smile slightly, you touch your nose or lips, you scratch your cheek etc.
These kinds of animations could really give more life to NPC characters.
Also, similarly to FrankieV, Im also curious, which skeleton are you going to use It is important to have support for IK bones and attachment markers and also to consider root motion, so we can have programmatic control over the animations.
Also, the animations and the skeleton should account for LODs to save CPU power and skip some bones, in case we need a bunch of NPCs running around and performing your animations.
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