Sonic Map Dev - Space Colony Ark Day 015-017 - Procedural Motions fo Egg Walker
12Over a span of 3 days fighting health issues etc (the Flu) I was finally able to wrap up a very simple procedural IK animation setup for the Egg Walker. I have absolutely no time to be trying to hand animate this things traversal over the land as Robotnik approaches the facility to free Shadow 50 years later from the hands of GUN, so I opted to try a control rig method to have the feet and the targeting laser move based on velocity input and sphere traces. The model is still WIP but at least the rig is done. Next I think I need to cut the crap and just get to framing all the shots I need for this short otherwise I will just keep getting stuck on small details and never finish.
Procedural IK was setup following parts of this tutorial and a spider demo from the same channel, shout out to @LincolnMargison for the tips
• Biped procedural animation "step by s...
Refinements to the step up and down placement thanks to @GDUprising for mods to the third person character base IK enabling proper ground planting and ankle rotation updates:
• UE5 Tutorial - Foot Placement IK Rota...
Aiming of the laser was made possible through this tutorial, thanks to @unrealmagic1 :
• Controll rig aim at or look at in unr...
And lastly IK foot angle refinements were added thanks to @EnterReality with these rotation adjustment and constraint tips:
• UE5 TechAnimTip#4 - Limit joints rota...
I have absolutely no time to create this scale of a world form scratch so I def will be kit bashing this thing together like crazy. Stick around and skip around if interested in any particular portions, I dont post edit or bookmark sessions cause I dont have time.
Track: "After The Fall" by Cold Cinema
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