Rigblocks: Player- Deformable Objectsajw/s2007/0248-Rigblocks-slides.pdf• Requires retargetting...
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Rigblocks: Player-Deformable Objects
Lydia Choy, Ryan Ingram, Ocean Quigley,Brian Sharp, Andrew Willmott
Maxis, Electronic Arts
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Spore: Recap
• Want players to be able to create key parts of their game
• Pollinate player-created things via servers, so your game is made of both your own creations and others’
• Richer experience, less art work(!)
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Spore: Recap
• Players create game assets• Creatures, Buildings, Vehicles...
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How can players create models?
• Let player use supplied parts to build model– Allow stacking, pinning, sliding
• But, static is boring, requires many blocks to be expressive. So– Add animations that deform blocks– Animations driven by player-controlled handles
• Result: Rigblocks, our LEGO(tm)(R)(whatever)
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Advantages
• Player interaction with the block is intuitive and straightforward
• Rigblock deformations are expressive
• Provides a balance between enabling player creativity and amplifying player creativity
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Advantages
• Aiming for the sweet spot between:
– High-quality, artist-created models, with no player control
– Lower-quality, effort-intensive, wholly player-driven approach, such as providing a sculpting tool.
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Example: Maya Model
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Animation Deforms Mesh
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Animation Deforms Mesh
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Animation Deforms Mesh
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The Editors
Demo
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Note: Creatures
• Base block is a special block: body mesh
• Allow player control over a basic skeleton– Adjust spline, glue limbs
• Mesh generated via metaballs
• Rigblocks attached to body
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Storyboarding
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Storyboarding
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Storyboarding: A Single Block
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Pipeline
• Standard workflow: separate author file per animation
• Rigblocks: Multiple animations, so use track editor
• MEL scripts control addition of handle rigs– Handles drive animation! (Via expressions)– Artist places handle, so can iterate in-Maya
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Animation Technology
• Can’t use standard animation blending
• Use cumulative blending from rest pose– Match Maya by composing deform matrix at end
from separately accumulate scale, rotate, translate
• Multiblender– Handles standard “runtime” animations– Applies deforms on top
50% Def_A + 50% Def_B != Average(A, B)
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Baking
• Remove all deform animations, producing a new base mesh
• Model must be able to be rendered at game rates– Single texture page, single material– Generate LODs
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Baking: Animation
• Desirable for blocks to carry “runtime” animations through (e.g. mouths)
• But such rigblocks must be substituted with low-bone-count versions
• Requires retargetting composite deform pose to new runtime skeleton (base pose has changed)
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Authored Block
Runtime Animation
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Runtime Animation
- Reduced skeleton- Skeletal animation
- Many bones- Skeletal animation- Blendshape animation
Authored Block Runtime Block
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Runtime Animation
Authored Block
- Mesh is retargeted to new (runtime) skeleton
- Apply deformation handle
Runtime Block
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Runtime Animation
Runtime Block
- Runtime animations are retargeted to new skeleton
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Thanks
• All the Rigblock artists– Umaru Jalloh, Mike Khoury, Ferby Miguel, Jane Ng,
Holly Ruark, Matt Small
• The Editor team– Dave Culbya, Chaim Gingold, Alex Lam, Dan
Moskowitz
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Questions?