[Kickstarter] Boner3D - Cheap autorigging for Unity, Unreal, and others

Hey everyone,

Just thought I would share this awesome tool that has recently appeared on Steam Greenlight concepts called Boner3D.

Here is a video of it in action

Keep in mind that it is a prototype at the moment.

EDIT:

Social media Info

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/boner3d
Twitter - https://twitter.com/boner3d

EDIT: Kickstarter Is up and Greenlight page is up.

 

LOL, Boner3D..

*Falls off chair*

 

Lets make a kickass rigging tool!
Yeah!
What could we call it? ;D
No, you're not thinking that...
I sure am.
And thats how Boner3D happened

 

^

 

hahahahahah, nice name!

 

More importantly, I hope it works well. Could be a great tool. If it works and its relatively cheap, very nice!

*I would definitely change the name though lol.

 

I assume Bon3D was taken by disgruntled modelers.

 

LOL boner3d hahaha

 

Hilarious name and looks like a kickass tool for programmers like me that even struggle with Rigify

 

Nice!
How's the tool's accuracy? How it compares to mixamo autorigging?
And what'll be the pricing?

From what i've seen I'll be surely getting a boner.

 

Right away reminded me of

 

There used to be a tool exactly like boner3d for FPSCreator, except it didn't have individual fingers, but it had a rig and you simply fit your mesh onto the rig, it would guess and assign the vertices to the bones, and then would let you fine tune the verts or find any that weren't assigned.

Looked on their site but don't see it anymore and can't remember the name, but it looks exactly like the video in OP.

 

Hey,

Just updated the original post with social media info. For those of you wanting to keep up to date on the happenings of Boner3D.

Further more - Boner3D is at the top of /r/gamedev - Link

@iKonrad - I would ask on the Steam Green Light page. Just trying to keep feedback in one place.

 

My Boner fixed everything for me. Thanks Boner!

 

When the mood is right, and you need to get a boner, are you just left feeling "flat" and "two-dimensional?" Ask your doctor about a prescription for Boner3D today. Life is better when your D is 3D.

 

I don't want to come off as pompous animator, but isn't that kinda useless?
Why the hell would anyone want to use some one else's animations? 0.o
Awesome name though.

 

I think the main selling point is the auto-rigging feature. You can then animate it however you want afterwards.

 

You are missing the whole point of the program.... its called BONER3D. Why else would anyone buy it?

(PS I wouldn't buy cause I am a programmer but I would buy just to say I have a boner in my computer)

 

Afaik there is more to rigging that just bones and skin, but i guess name is enough to justify it XD

 

The maker of this is Josh Klint. He is the developer and producer of the Leadwerks Engine and the owner/ceo of Leadwerks.

He is a gifted coder and an arrogant ol' moo.

Arrogance aside when he sets his mind on a goal he gets there. I remember Leadwerks engine when it was first released and although a little quirky was Game Dev Ready. Looking at it now it has evolved in to something quite special.

Oh! Josh also developed CharacterShop. This I believe was his first attempt at Autorigging Software and he made a pretty good job of it. Oh! Character Shop when released, talking a long time ago here, was better than 80% of what was feasibly affordable for indies at the time i.e. it was a cheap tool that did a damn fine job compared to its expensive other AutoRiggers who's price tags were tripple.

 

Seems Boner3D would be kick ass to use just like ValveBiped in Source Engine.

 

anything that can give mixamo a competition is a good thing

 

I half expected to see a nude male model, with certain parts of his anatomy rigged.

 

This is killing me. This is wrong on so many levels.

 

Nice to see an old member of the BlitzBasic forums here.

 

I updated the original post with information regarding the KickStarter and the Actual Steam Greenlight.

But for competitions sake here is the kickstarter page and the Greenlight page.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1937035674/boner3d

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=309058613

 

Anyone who wants to reduces costs on their project should definitely support this.

 

Do you mean reduce stress?

 

I'm afraid the Kickstarter link says the project's been cancelled. 20 mins ago upon the time I checked it out.

From his update:

 

boner

 

To be fair, will anyone ever forget this software almost existed?

Marketing genius.

 

Well looking at my e-mail, it looks like the first backer backed at 9:30 am, and the project was cancelled by 6:30pm, so everyone who has a work day similar to mine didn't even get a chance to look at the Kickstarter project before it was pulled, hard to judge the viability of anything if you give it a tiny window of opportunity

 

no boner

 

"What did you use to rig that?"
"My Boner. "

 

Oh cool developer of Leadwerks. He is stepping into better way with developing plugins like that since he is quite original coder and creator, and working on engine is just too much competition to Unity and UE, especially for single person, so defenetly good idea he is creating here, lets face it 90% of artist or coders hate rigging.

 

Please Please autorig us up. Animations we got, characters we got, worlds to explore, we got a galaxy full of those but it is totally embarrassing to have our wonderfully dressed and textured characters and NPC's bumbling and fumbling about in world because of bad or misdirected Rigging. just take the money. To bad, so sad, no Boner for us.

 

Just go to mixamo.com. free autorig there. I think it works pretty good.

 

>click links
>no penis
Why live?

 

Flaccid failure.

 

Why did the project fail though?

 

Couldn't get it up.