Week 45?: Piper Lives Up to Its Name
It's been a while since I've made an update a lot has happened since! Piper in Unreal! Exporting data through attributes and using it as...
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- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
Week 44: Continuous Integration for Unreal Engine iOS Projects with Jenkins
This will be a short post this week since the big write up is in a git hub repo. This week involved setting up a Jenkins server on a...
- Apr 12, 2022
- 2 min
Week 43: Evaluating UE5 for iOS and How to Fade Material WITHOUT Blueprint Timelines
With Unreal Engine 5 being released this past week, I now have to decide whether I jump onto the latest and greatest or lock the engine...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 1 min
Week 42: How to Build Unreal Project on M1 Mac with XCode 13.3
"Hello!" says Johnny Jupiter. Had to upgrade from a 2012 MacBook Pro that could no longer build an app with the minimum supported version...
- Mar 28, 2022
- 1 min
Week 41: Mirroring Rig with A Python Script in Maya
I was tired of having to script both a left and right-side function to rig characters that are symmetrical, so instead I wrote a script...
- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
Week 40: Piper Updates and an Idle
This week's focus centered around rigging bugs, switching over to use Qt.py, learning about git submodules, using the Maya's...
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Week 39: Character Selection and Async Loading
Got a very simple character selection which consists of two blueprints. One that handles asynchronously loading skeletal meshes and idle...
- Mar 8, 2022
- 1 min
Week 38: Select Fractionally Weighted Verts in Maya Script, A Jumping Cow, and A Spreadsheet
Selecting verts that don't have a value of 1 is super helpful when smoothing long chains in Maya. Below you'll find a script to help you...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 1 min
Week 37: Back At It Again
Took a bit of a break, mostly to play Back 4 Blood (cheers to Turtle Rock Studios for an amazing game!) and test out UE4 cinematics with...
- Sep 8, 2021
- 1 min
Week 36: A Bendy Stick Figure in 3D
I started animating digitally in 2D with Pivot Animator around fifteen years ago, and stick figures have had an impact with me ever...
- Jul 12, 2021
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Week 35: A Cow Munches on Grass and a Blob Squashes and Stretches
Quick idle animation for señor Mooer above. All squash and stretch animations working in game for Blobber below, similar to a bouncing...
- Jul 6, 2021
- 1 min
Week 34: Jump Animation and Rig Improvements
This week's improvements include simplifying the process of writing a rig script. In the past, I had 37 lines of python code to rig the...
- Jun 29, 2021
- 1 min
Week 33: Squash and Stretch and Looking Sideways
Did some tests with root joint squash and stretch scaling through the skeleton vs runtime squash and stretch via bone transform...
- Jun 22, 2021
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Week 32: First Animation
Running the rig through the ropes, finding bugs, areas of improvements, and animating! The blob spins! I mostly used this animation to...
- Jun 8, 2021
- 1 min
Week 31: Piper's To-Do Complete!
Wrapping up the twist module this week means there are no tasks left in Piper's To-Do list! There are some items left in the wish list...
- Jun 1, 2021
- 1 min
Week 30: Orient Space
Space.py script has been upgraded to include the useOrient attribute. When the useOrient attribute is switched to On, the transform...
- May 26, 2021
- 1 min
Week 29: High-Poly Wraps
I am not talking about a healthy chicken caesar wrap, instead I am talking about the using a wrap deformer. More specifically, the new...
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Week 28: Icons/Buttons, Colors, and Bug Fixes
Slow-ish week due to semester finals. Made some icons and buttons on the switcher GUI since it's meant to be active during piper...
- May 4, 2021
- 1 min
Week 27: Global Scaling and Rig Organization
I wish I could say adding global scaling was a walk in the park, but it was not. Especially with the volumetric IK joints and space...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
Week 26: How to Register "Repeat Last Command" and Orient To Face, Edge, or Vertex Normal in Maya
Week 26! That means there's been half of a year of active development! About half of it has been game development and the other half has...
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