Rigging and Animation Editor In Overgrowth - Wolfire Games

[Severoids]

Is it possible to transfer these animations to different game engines. im really interested in the smoothness of the frames in the animation

[TheStitch1000]

"then click on the 'MEEP MEEP MEEP MEEP' tab..."

...

first off, was it really necissary to name it that? second...

lol

[Ricochet8844]

Fan-made whale man model? Where do I find that?

[Wietheuperlima]

So that's why Kadhafi got killed.

[oubsessesdwifallout]

well atleast quadalfi is dead now

[SenfMann132]

Ok, so you can do Dancing animations and stuff. But what about fighting animations? Can you do a punch or a kicking animation, that actually does impact on enemy ragdolls and hurt them? Or are the fighting animations always the ones, which are made by Wolfire?

[1337anonym]

Ok, let me guess.. someone made the whale man dance?

[master233120]

I need this animation program, It looks so simple D:

[Endoperez]

It was not used for animation creation since it didn't work well enough

blog.wolfire.com/2010/07/Blend­er-as-an-animation-editor

Sometime later, it became bugged and crashed the game. Since David didn't want to spend time fixing stuff they aren't using any more, it was disabled. I don't know if they plan to fix it for the final version.

[Player8234]

this button dosen't works by me :S

[HiredGunGames]

epic voice!! XD

[kelava85]

why is animation editor disabled in newer alphas?

[TheCoolestItem]

Time to make a dancing cactus!

[Soopination]

Can't wait for someone to find someway to intergrate this with the kinect.

[YaFatButch]

can you do more than just make them move on one spot? for instance making them moonwalk... or just face planting into the ground.

[RozzaTheBozza]

I want whale man moving.

[knightben22]

you deserve a cookie for the game and for making me rofl

[D3STRUKT0R99]

So you can just rig up any model to be useable that easily?

[Xxmonkey58xX]

@WolfireGames can you put it on steam so its more accessible? please answer back

[killzoner22]

Hi fiveh!

[Blessthefall245]

Can u save yur animations an use them in game?

[TheXRealXBrapp]

lol "MEEP MEEP MEEP MEEP"

[nothGhost]

So that's where John Redcorn went after fox canceled king of the hill...

[paintcan176]

Dont tell seananners about this or well be flooded by noobs and stupid questions. I promise, it happened to minecraft

[DarkTripYT]

okay your "cute" comments, rapping, and movie quote crap annoy the hell out of me but the arabic/english subtitling was funny.

[Dude902]

LOL, You got me at the end with the captions for the arabic-speaking man.

[greco0994]

lol

[ageshero]

Will you be able to apply things like, Textures and modeling, from outside sources? is this a single and or multiplayer Advanced Second life game.

This is utterly insane, Awards are to be

[XxstiffmisterxX]

with this editor seems like no limit if people could import there custom meshes you should and like animate a battle or somekind i would like to see somethin cool like so

[TheDg00]

is this gonna be on steam?

[TheMenoffire]

Thumbs up if u laugh when he says "hi5"

[Kalmoneiros]

That helped a lot, more than another one, a lot shorter one... not naming it.

[BubbaDJ000]

omg thats a BRILIANT IDEA!!! someone should animate the whaleman :O

[StopNation]

I am using alpha 90 and i dont have a meep meep meep meep tab

[StopNation]

Holy shit man... i'm gonna have so much fun making fight moves

[SeamusPlox]

Can you make Death animations for Private servers? (Running, walking and Death)

[pfuckingzea]

i really love what you guys are doing, this is amazing, huge fan right here, definitely pre-ordering.

[PhatChase11]

whens this coming out???

[Thuomach]

How many people is making these tools and everything on this game?! THESE ARE JUST AWESOMNESS FROM EPIC WIN!

[lRever]

How are the weights determained?

[balkep86]

You must have really good programmers. Nice tools.

[RamTortoise]

It would be cool if these animated models, could be exported and used in other packages. :)

[YOUnoobGER]

So awesome!

So easy rigging!

[correip]

gui looks sexy :)

[Asofnowyoudie]

I still like my Episodes from Liberty City on the PC though :/

[erne57]

What the fuck is this game about?

[hsabi1]

CANT FUCKING DOWNLOAD THIS, fucking wolfire.

[L1n71np4rk]

@hsabi1 Dude you have to pre order the game

[Myasorez]

*high five*

[trikpa]

gadafi \m/

Be well

[Myasorez]

high five

[Kack9999]

That "High five!" voice just made my day xD

[Mislum18]

Hmm, whenever I press ctrl + T to break the skeleton to the 3d character mesh, the editor crashes.

And I set the bones at the same place as in this video. Is it just a bug?

[Opfergott]

wooowowoowwowowowowow

thats so nice

[Profanwolf]

this guy is awesome.

[creopictures]

Wow. This is very impressive. It looks like even a noob like me would be able to create some cool animations.

[sharker1234]

Are you rigging and animating in the editor or in a separate program like blender?

[JeeOnFire]

its all in the editor :)

[Merlkir]

@Baldoxxx4000 Yeaaaah! You're so hardcore!

[tcw295]

its like a liquify tool for 3d models, his limbs bend like noodles, ehhhhhhhh

[MostlyToad]

Haha! YES! I've been waiting for animation tools to go in this direction for a long time.. Great work Wolffire! Can't wait for the game + Editors!

[ebenheart]

wow if you programed this software thats awsome.

[qwertyqeys]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAALEEEEEEE MAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

Sorry I went off the handle like that

[KnightCrawler2]

so can we import foreign models? eg: any .obj from 3dsmax or maya?

[Silwerfish]

Yes you can import custom models.

[valentingalea]

I am preordering this! It is better than sex and sliced bread combined!

[PrawnSticks]

@valentingalea Better than having sex with slices of bread?

[bubbletanking]

@PrawnSticks Are you implying that isnt AWESOME!? OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!

[bamikroket]

@valentingalea

I'm with you on the bread part at least....

[Arantre20]

@valentingalea I dunno if anything is better then sliced bread... sex maby but sliced bread no.

[GOOB3000]

@Arantre20 Lol! True.

[MrMtherFker]

@valentingalea i want to preorder it, but my mom is all like "FUCK YOU!"

[it900Sover]

@MrMtherFker I HATE THAT SONG FUCKHEAD

[NJGirl99]

ROFL If your game is as good as this video, it will be great.

[kroepkroep]

SOMEBODY PLAY WITH THE WHALEMAN!!!!! xD he's awsomely stupid =]

[Th34ss4ss1nK1ll3r]

"Who turned out the ligths?" ROFL

[Makido]

This is the kind of thing that needs to be added to MMOs to give players the ability to add content

[ShrEadHunterN]

@Makido

The problem is that many dickheads plays mmo's (no offense ^^), and many of them will just make "dick heads"... people with dick... as heads?... although it's a nice idea, many people ain't mature enough for such things.

[hack4crack]

whats this softwares name?

[smallfryordie]

Bad ASs!

[bloodeternalxx]

Do high-production 3D programs still use bones or do they just use frames? I haven't been following animation the latest time.

[Eagle0600]

Good question.

[youthinkimcool]

1:12

HIGH FIVE

[amarshall88]

Haha yeah

[Baldoxxx4000]

it doesnt look right....

[jayblueridgesumilhig]

is this a software???

[Silwerfish]

Yes.

[jayblueridgesumilhig]

is it possible to purchase or download it??....:D..i think i really need this kind of software...i find it hard rigging using maya or 3D max....

[Gash1234]

you can pre-order the game overgrowth and you can use the editor right when you have pre-ordered it :) You can pre-order it at the Overgrowth official site :)

[jayblueridgesumilhig]

so you mean.......Overgrowth is a game?? not a 3D software like MAYA or 3D max??

[Silwerfish]

Yes, that's how it is.

[ForgottenChance]

No. Basically you get a game and an awesome editor, so you can make mods.

[jayblueridgesumilhig]

ohh...damn it.....i thought it would be a great software to create animations..and render it as a video ....

[ForgottenChance]

i am pretty sure you'll be able to do that too.

[jayblueridgesumilhig]

u sure bout that?? well...i dont think so...it's just a editor...they programmed the software to save as mods...not to render it....

[ForgottenChance]

Well, you can always use some kind of Screen Capture software.

[jayblueridgesumilhig]

what do you mean bout Screen Capture???

[fawlookar]

o.o make it jack off

[suicidekyd]

I wish you all the best of luck. I had a computer crash so a one man team of three years of meshs, textures, levels and code is gone.

i shall learn to backup, backup, backup.

[EdEddnEddyComedy]

nice make some animations vids witht hem talking is there a way that they dont have to be a bunny or something and does it have to be 3d?

[Blu3W4r10Ck]

Awesome stuff.

[Toninjo3]

epic 1000/5

[ORCandHUMANs]

haha sweet

[goldenboy53]

Lol ghadaffi(or what ever) was the best part. laughed my ass of nice one.

[ichbinpwnzilla]

This is amazing, seriously

I've spent so mcuh work painstakingly rigging models and here you do it in seconds

[arlpainbringer]

am I wrong?

[arlpainbringer]

Cool but seems to be totally useless for production situation.

[Eagle0600]

That's like saying "Photoshop seems to be totally useless for production situation." after watching someone just screw around with it to show some features. The quality of the animation will be proportional to the effort put in, and the effort put into that animation was minimal.

[arlpainbringer]

No sir. Its not that simple.

If we're talking about photoshop, i would say that there are very important reasons why photoshop is one of major software used by developers:

1. accesibility

2. tools to solve any given task

Video above shows only accesibility put to its limits. I loved it but still I call it "Casual Animation". Because in real life when producing game expectations for animation tool are very high and no one will use tool that produce quick but useless/problematic outcome.

[Eagle0600]

I understand what you're saying, but you evidently don't understand what I said. I shall not repeat myself, nor shall I reply if you repeat yourself.

[arlpainbringer]

Then stop wasting my time untill you have some real experience based honest arguments. Loose associations doesn't matter.

[toady211]

man that looks awesome i cant belive some one would call that casual animation, its all about the amount of effort that you put in. people dont screw around with a model for 10 minutes and it comes out the best it can but with this tool at least we can try. it can look the best depending on the person and the way there animating it.... god some people suck

[tcw295]

if you want your production to have terrible animation maybe we have a use...

[pwEclipse]

don't be stupid, I'm sure you can tweak vertex weights. That's only the "automagical" rigging system, and it's quite awesome.

[ebrahim23]

They probably dont use these tools to animate, or if they do they arent done yet. Remember this game has many months to go

[matthew2313]

hahahahahah "getting G with it"

[lethalvortex]

haha awesome:p

[OehrGmbH]

i see potential for happy sandboxing here!

btw, the gbc version of daikatana was pretty good!

[PytoX]

hahaha the meep meep meep tab awesome lol :D

[flimbabulous]

Are you the voice actor for Xavier: Renegade Angel?

[btnheazy03]

ahahaahaha i love these

[SneakySoft]

omg, that's just crazy how it plays the skin nicely

[Gakoranus]

I think this is the best vid so far... except for your community question answers :p

[qubodup]

I see what you did there 2:40

[holymosesstudios]

Please show some real gameplay soon i cant wait!!

[kleric214]

You sound like my friend Tom Loftus. Its scary.

[MagnumKain]

This is brilliant! :)

[neotoy]

Exemplary.

[Kissaki0]

awesome tool again

[HALPCat]

Holy shit, massive progress!

[zgcentrs]

''Like game Daikatana''. LOL YOU GUYS! :D

[TheUnboundReaver]

I want that DJ-sample "Main theme" music =(

[Merlkir]

When you're placing the joints, does it just place them roughly in the center mass of the model in that area?

[WolfireGames]

Yes, that's right.

[BlackScythertainment]

ROFL ... looks cool, too

[Tiktook]

Sweet rigging system you got there.

[Tiktook]

Btw. how does it determine where to place the joint in terms of depth? You just click it all comfortably from the front view, so is it just placed in the center or is it a random depth if you don't adjust it in the side view?

[WolfireGames]

It puts it exactly in the center.

[TheDg00]

@WolfireGames is Overgrowth gonna be on steam? with all the editor and stuff?

[TheUnboundReaver]

Maan, I just hope that every other GameEditor, was like yours!!

Fenix engine rules, Cryengine staps aside ^_^

[yoran35]

Wow nice tools! I wish rigging was this simple in 3ds Max.

[lunei66]

Rofl, damn, that's pretty amazing.

[MadComputerScientist]

Just a bit creepy, but hilarious nonetheless.

I love the Imam, or whoever he is, preaching against the rigging of the Whaleman.

I also love how everything is animate-able! Woot!

Also, is that groovy music track going to show up in-game? In a club perhaps? 'Cause the cats totally need a club! 83

[Prathik1989]

Thats Qaddafi. A big tool.

[zwogon]

Don't let Garry Newman snatch this :O

[kamilfreeman]

Garry gotta see this...

[Sparrow15]

As soon as he moved the head up like that, I knew we were getting a Night at the Roxbury joke.

[DjEphixa]

awesome

[thefrog101]

Oh wow that i just too epic!!

Will there be support for custom player models, like user made?

[Silwerfish]

Since you can rig and animate any model, and you can import custom models, you should be able to import a custom player model and then rig and animate it. I'm pretty sure they will add support for it.