https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Hugo -- gohugo.io en tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) ©2024, All Rights Reserved Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:54:23 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/skeletal_mesh_in_engine_01/ Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:54:23 -0500 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:54:23 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/skeletal_mesh_in_engine_01/ Overview The UE5.5 Preview has new tools to enable an artist or rigging to set up a SkeletalMesh entirely within the editor: placing bones, painting skin weights, rigging, and animating. This series is going to be my first stab at taking an asset from start to finish. I hope this can show other technial animators and TDs what is possible, as well as providing feedback for the team at Epic for future development. Taylor unreal rigging Skeletal Meshes in the Engine https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/gdc_talk/ Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:02:38 -0500 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:02:38 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/gdc_talk/ Taylor resources https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/personal_project_pt2/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:18:41 -0500 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:18:41 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/personal_project_pt2/ I’m been working on this project quick a bit lately, and I found really quickly that Blueprint was going to limit the scope. I like Blueprint, I really do, but once you want to make more involved tooling for a project, the game’s foundation just needs to be native. So I did that. I nativized everything. I put all movement into an actor component so I can throw it on NPCs/enemies, I extracted all the world grid stuff out so it’s streamlined and fast, and this allowed me to make a map maker tool: Taylor ue5 Blueprint c++ Slate Blueprint tools Dungeon Crawler https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/slate_thumbnails/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:26:35 -0500 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:26:35 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/slate_thumbnails/ This is going to be a short one. Sometimes you’ll want to add an asset’s thumbnail to a tool. It’s actually pretty simple! There are only four parts to the whole thing. In your widget’s .h file, declare a ThumbnailPool… 1 TSharedPtr<class FAssetThumbnailPool> ThumbnailPool; And then create it in the .cpp file like this: 1 ThumbnailPool = MakeShareable(new FAssetThumbnailPool(24, false)); Then to actually create your thumbnail, you need to grab the FAssetData for the asset, usually through the AssetRegistryModule: Taylor unreal Slate c++ tools https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/right_click_context_menu_slate/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:34:24 -0500 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:34:24 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/right_click_context_menu_slate/ I’ve been doing lots of tool work lately, and a particular tool I’m working on right now uses a ListView. Each item in the ListView has specific context actions associated with them, and I really wanted them to appear in a right-click popup menu. So I did. And after this article you can, too. See how this works? First off, you need to attach a function to your item widget’s . Taylor unreal Slate c++ tools https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/personal_project_pt1/ Sun, 10 Apr 2022 14:57:21 -0500 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Sun, 10 Apr 2022 14:57:21 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/personal_project_pt1/ So, a few years ago I played a game called… Truth be told, I had never played a Dungeon Master-esque game before. I had no idea it would be something I enjoyed. But even now, years and years after playing it, Grimrock 2 is stuck in my head. The exploration, the atmosphere, the mystery, the COMBAT! I fell in love with it, quickly played it through a few times, played the original, and have wanted to make something like it since. Taylor featured image ue5 Blueprint gameplay Dungeon Crawler https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/creating_new_anim_nodes_pt2/ Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:02:17 -0500 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:02:17 -0500 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/creating_new_anim_nodes_pt2/ Intro In the last part we created the AnimNode_GradualScaleJoints anim node and initialized it in such a way that we could add it to an AnimBP graph. In this part I’ll go over the individual parts of the AnimNode class, order of operations, and how we want to go about the joint scaling. General thoughts As with anything involving runtime animation, remember to always be as lean as possible. Animation runs every single frame. Taylor featured image unreal animation c++ Anim Node C++ For Tech Artists https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/creating_new_anim_nodes_pt1/ Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:27:28 -0600 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:27:28 -0600 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/creating_new_anim_nodes_pt1/ Intro The next few articles on this blog are going to go over creating an AnimNode that can be used in an AnimBP in UE4/UE5. I’ll try to keep it light and gloss over some of the more obvious parts of this system while diving into how the nodes actually work and do their thing. There’s a few things you really need to know about and semi-understand before you jump into this though: Taylor featured image unreal animation c++ Anim Node C++ For Tech Artists https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/mgear_new_module/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:36:58 -0600 tbwrightartist@gmail.com (Taylor) Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:36:58 -0600 https://tbwrightartist.com/posts/mgear_new_module/ Overview This will be a guide to creating mGear modules from scratch. It will attempt to chronicle the process is order, but the mGear system is pretty complex so there may be missing steps. DISCLAIMER: I originally wrote this article at the beginning of 2021. I cannot guarantee it’s still up-to-date. If it’s not, please leave a comment and I will remedy the issue. Process My general process so far has been: Taylor featured image maya animation python mGear