Official Accessories for the Townsfolk

Sounds good - I will send it over sometime this afternoon (for me,) which will be a few hours after the livestream so I would look for it tomorrow.

Thanks,

Dan

 

@cirocontinisio - Great Livestream today. I'm watching your "Improve your animation workflow with Animation Rigging | Unite Now 2020" video right now.

I uploaded the blend file, the texture, and fbx exported from that file to a google drive.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r5gI8QmxYa2ZOrzhjbB5xR5F3J7_zKb5?usp=sharing

Essentially I imported the townsfolk walking fbx, stripped the townsfolk mesh, attached and weight painted the pack to the skeleton. I did not add, remove, change any of the existing skeleton (though there are many extra unused bones.)

When I bring it into Unity (as in posts above,) I can not seem to get the pack to animate with the character.

I have read / seen a few videos now on this being done with a script - though these videos are also from a few years back.

In an ideal world - I would love to have a few extra bones on the pack to be able to animate a bit of squash and stretch and give a secondary movement to the strap that holds the pack shut which might be a good case for the Animation Rigging within Unity - but I don't know if adding bones will mess anything else up.

 

Yes, I worked on it and here's the result:



Let thoughts come.

 

I immediately thought the same thing, "Woohoo party hat!"

What sticks out to me is that the hat itself looks rather flat, can there be more texture/layering added to the yellow and blue stripes? Maybe so they have a similar feel to the pink/blue/green/red strips at the top? And maybe put some height on the dots? Unfortunately I don't know how to do that, and it'd probably make the triangle count go way up, but I think it'd be a nice touch if possible.

Along with a party hat, we need those kazoo or roll up/out streamer things! With confetti! And a confetti cannon to celebrate someone finally winning the competition. It could be old and dusty because no one has won in 20 tries.

 

Maybe I didn't understand it. Are you saying that the colours are plain, some repeating pattern on top of stripes (like rest of the cap), or they should be out from the surface of the cone?

 

Is real height required or visual effect is enough?

 

Out from the surface of the cone

Visual effect is probably fine, they just look a little flat.

 

@cirocontinisio ,

Thanks for your hard work and import / export tips. I think the key here for us learning is that something like this, extra clothing, mesh additions, etc, should, and would probably be done from the original Maya (in this case,) file.

re: the two different skeletons, Mine was exported with the bones oriented and linked, where the straight FBX import imports them all on axis. The heads of the bones should be in the same spot though. This I suppose might cause a re-order issue.

I will probably try a couple more small things but I will not get my hopes too high and move onto to something else.

Thanks again

 

Here's a farmer hat that I made. I haven't requested a pull for GitHub at the moment. I wanted to get some critique before I do. The Polycount is in one of the photos and the texture is 512x512.

 

And it looks quite like a farmers hat. I like how you made it look well worn.

 

@shuttle127, visual effect to the dots has been added. But I am having difficulties in adding height to the stripes. They are just circle in the texture. I used the knife tool but then the texture looks odd.

So I think the stripes are fine as texture...

 

Nice farmer hat @MortyJHin. Now we have a farmer to grow vegetables and fruits that @Smurjo made.

 

When planning ahead with the knife tool, this wouldn't happen that much. Just if you make a very narrow piece and then pull the edges apart the texture becomes very stretched. But not all is lost - you can move the texture coordinates in the UV image editor window.

 

I did it



Let me know what about this.

 

That Triangle count is the Townsfolk + Cap.
Cap is only 32 Triangles.

Yes, sure. I will post it tonight (for me).

 

I shaded smooth the normals. And also, the decorations on the top took about 50 faces.
Here is the Hat with Toon Shader:

Should I open a PR?

 

Before I work on my next set of accessories, I wanted to give the farmer some stuff to make it official. So I gave the farmer a pitchfork and a straw of hay to finish it off. I won't request a PR until I finish the other hat/tools that I'm going to give for another villager design.

Besides showing this, I wanted to ask if I should have the straw of hay be rigged instead.

 

Yes, that curved kind of stretching. I just used default unwrap option in blender and it unwraped UVs as in the photo below (in circular shape).

Then I painted the texture in Photoshop and then I can see the stretching on the Cap.
For the rings, they were initially circles until I perspective wraped them.

How will I fix it ????

Tried all UVs option & settings but cannot fix it. Also tried to project from Top orthographic view but this still persists.
I think this is because of the conical shape of cone (obviously, cone is conical).

 

I didn't want the Bard Hare to play music at the festival alone. So I created some musician hats and instruments for some of the villagers to represent the street performers. I need to fix a couple of things before requesting a pull request(along with the farmer's tools). I was thinking of making a drum, but I didn't want to make too many instruments.

I also created a Ruff Collar in case there is a villager that wanted to be poetic.

 

All of these are great!

A while back I suggested that Bard Hare is poetic (even have a few poems), how about making that work on his model too? Or are we set with his look?

 

That sounds like a good idea. Should I still send a Pull Request for the Shakespeare-inspired hat/Ruff Collar, along with the other stuff?

 

Roger that. If I think about adding some more stuff, then I'll hold off the pull request until I'm done. Most likely before next week. Thank you @cirocontinisio

 

Here are some quick belts meshes I made. I still need to adjust the scale, but that should be about it. I'll send a pull request soon once all the models I have shown(Farmer Accessories - Belts) are ready.

For now, I think I'm done modeling accessories for the project. I might do more models(accessories and other stuff), but with school starting for me soon, it will be unlikely, which is why I'm finishing up and preparing for a pull request when ready.

 

Can we have hats or frills that look like Slurpuff for the Desserter character? Pastries are yummy!

 

She's on my list. Suggestions welcome!

So far I am thinking of lavender for her dress, long hair and a flower in her hair.

 

Here comes a first glimpse on the desserter - her hair is still missing - I hope in a few days I will have her walking in Unity too - right now she only walks in Blender.

 

Now the desserter walks but her hair doesn't follow... anyway this is how I intend she will look like. The flower in her hair is a vanilla orchid.

Desserter: 5018 triangles (few less than townfolk female as she wears no belt)
hair: 478 triangles, texture 1024x1024
vanilla orchid: 740 triangles, texture 128x512

 

Looks cool! I especially like the extra touch with the orchid.
My only issue is that the back of her hair is clipping with her headband.

 

I finally rigged the skirt of the old lady. Since I am using the details mask tint shader we can have the skirt in different color combinations.

 

So these people can melt iron (melting point 1538°C) but not wax (melting point bees wax 62-65 °C)? Batik was already known in ancient Egypt. It is done by putting wax on the cloth before dying it, this way the color can't get everywhere and leaves the pattern. The wax can be painted or printed - simply by putting a stamp in the molten wax and then on the cloth. I don't see why they shouldn't stamp the wax as it is much faster to cover great areas.

I typed "indigenous people" in Google and found many of them love to dress colorful.

 

What do you guys think about an ear cuff?



Of course, it could vary in length and design.