Same bro

Inside gaming really do be inside gaming 🔥

indeed, truly inside gaming.

Holy crap. Thank you. I know I glossed over so much and the order of things a little bit might be off... and I know there is probably like 10 different software I could have mentioned but yeah originally this video was supposed to be two-ish minutes and it quickly turned into... "oh crap... how do I get this under 5?"

@@Evan_Campbell Only thing I would have changed is that "fx" aren't done via mocap. Also, much of the editing we do is to fit the animation within given timing that is set by design (hit reaction timing and distance, hit frames/anticipation so you have a tell on that attack is about to happen, hit frames for consistency, between combos) Humans move a lot slower than you think. Most mocap is sped up anywhere between 30-60%. Trying to do that without losing the subtlety of motion is an art in itself. As for software, much of the initial clean-up is done in motion-builder by the tech-animstors, then we edit it in Maya (for most studios), and then do a final edit pass in-engine (time-scaling for upgrade mechanics, transitions between each animation clip, blending multiple animations together, camera, lighting and fx, all that good stuff).

@@Evan_Campbell If you ever want to ask things about animation, tech-anim, or gameplay systems design when you make these videos, let me know how to reach out to you, and I'll be happy to answer whatever I can. I've got 15 years experience and am now a Sr Animator. I love content like this that teaches the masses about what we do. :). Cheers!

​@@ItsJustMe0585 i just might take you up on that. twitter is the best way to get at me usually (@darthburrit0). i have a few ideas I want to do for videos around debunking the "lazy devs" bs we always see.

can i contact with you in insta or twitter please, have a few questions about animation in games

I work in game dev. Generally for romance scenes and such, our poor actors basically snuggle and spoon on hard tables to prevent that. Not very romantic in the middle of a giant room, with onlookers judging and directing your every move. Now with the advent of Xsens suits and the like, this is becoming less of a problem because the sensors do not need cameras. They don't have great of data output, unless you go crazy expensive and have prop joints, a ground markers (otherwise you have no sense of height being tracked), finger markers... And even then it's not super accurate. Nevertheless, our company has both. Xsens for specific situations, temporary prototype stand-ins, and super fast data capture, and traditional mocap for when you bring in stunt actors and NEED to get the best data on the first take.

@@ItsJustMe0585 very informative!

The behind the scenes on RE Village is so cool. I’m so so glad they released the behind the scenes. I definitely understood a lot more about how the game was made.

I originally had a much longer clip of that scene cause the performer nailed those doll movements for sure but it didn't fit as well with the explanation right there. I probably watched it like 20 times though.

thanks

They most likely did use for the vampire mommy boss and the normal libraries based off of the extending back in time files made from mo cap back then which is still used now for the rest of them. The hard part most likely was when the bosses got 4 or 5 moving parts that they only seemed to be moving what a human could. That is a downside to motion capture with humans. You only can capture what the subject can do.

@@yumri4 actually i found a GDC talk for animations in that game Dauntless and that guy was saying he mapped human motion capture to the beasts in there by targeting muscle groups or something. I didn't have time to watch it all but it seemed like he was using part of the human capture for reference and then manipulating the data somehow to get good keys for the monsters.

@@Evan_Campbell Really besides for her all the others moved like the enemies did in other games. So i feel sorry for the guy who tried to make it different. Maybe this studio didn't have access to the same libary of files as the Warner Brothers did as their monster in the lord of the rings shadow of war and mordor games moved about the same. Comparing them together RE8 and the lord of the rings series Resident evil 8 had slightly better movement for the bosses while more generic for the rest of them.

yeah. i should have put more in for sure.

Well most big budget games already use premade libraries of mocap files. That in part is the reason why you still keep clipping and unnormal movements in games as the library file was made using a different mesh. Not all characters have the same mesh for their body so the file has to be modified a little which has lead to bugs happening. This is also why everything is loaded in a T-pose position before it goes into the pose the player sees. The reason why all of them don't make new animations every time is like why sounds are not reproduced every time nor are texture files reproduced every time. It would cost more to entirely remake the entire supporting asset files than to reuse what is already there. This is also part of why it takes so long to get the newer tech in games. We already have shadow maps which look almost real to the point that unless you are looking for it in games that care about shadows they are about the same always from ray tracing shadows and ray tracing lights on to ray tracing shadows and ray tracing lights off. Yes in most engines you do have to change the lighting to get not ray tracing to look right. To this the 3D modelers for lighting have worked a lot to get the lighting to look real while not using it for ray tracing but using it to calculate premade map textures on other objects. The part of mocap that is hard with no motion capture things is how indie content can look the same as Triple A content now so Triple A studios have to work at it harder which leads to the part of having or dots on the people who do the motion capture and making no libaries for motion capture to out do the HTC VIVE and other software used for face tracing software. less money about the same result.

@@yumri4 okay let's go back to non-mocap games then

Then why’d you click on the video?

@@albinodino5050 bored lol

But not EVERY detail tho, I didn’t know how complicated it was tbh.