Humanoid Rigging For Games Using Houdini And KineFX

Humanoid Rigging For Games Using Houdini And KineFX, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 5, with 300 lectures, based on 68 reviews, and has 579 subscribers.

You will learn about We will create a basic humanoid rig in houdini. This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate Houdini users. or Indie game developers intersted in rigging with houdini. It is particularly useful for Intermediate Houdini users. or Indie game developers intersted in rigging with houdini.

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Title: Humanoid Rigging For Games Using Houdini And KineFX

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 5

Number of Lectures: 300

Number of Published Lectures: 300

Number of Curriculum Items: 300

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 300

Original Price: $34.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

We will create a basic humanoid rig in houdini.

Who Should Attend

Intermediate Houdini users.
Indie game developers intersted in rigging with houdini.

Target Audiences

Intermediate Houdini users.
Indie game developers intersted in rigging with houdini.

In this course we will build a basic humanoid rig. This rig is designed to be compatible with game engines like Unity and should work with a lot of common motion capture libraries.

We will start be creating a reconfigurable skeleton that can be posed for multiple characters. This skeleton will also have three different spines this will allow us to examine. These will include two curved skeletons, one with four bones to be compatible with the Unity humanoid rig. The others skeletons are have more bones and will allow us to compare to pitfalls of using curved or straight spines.

We will create a custom reorient joints node that will allow us to have consistent orientations for all the joints.

For the rig we will be looking to implement IK and FK Controls. For the IK controls we will have both global and local controls. And we will be implementing number of methods to blend between global and local controls.

We will be creating a custom for the spine rotations with options for both linear and quaternion interpolation.

For the arms we will be creating a dynamic skeleton that moves based of the position of the arm. The Hand will have preset poses that we can blend between.

We will be building an export pipeline with options for ‘level of detail’ and exporting characters and animation.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: General

Lecture 1: A Summary Of Kine FX

Lecture 2: KineFX Attributes

Lecture 3: Root Motion

Lecture 4: naming

Lecture 5: Houdini 19 Updates

Chapter 3: The Skeleton

Lecture 1: Scene Setup

Lecture 2: Adding The Root

Lecture 3: Adding The Spine

Lecture 4: Adding The Head and neck

Lecture 5: Spine Orientations

Lecture 6: Adding The Leg

Lecture 7: Leg orentations

Lecture 8: Foot Orientations

Lecture 9: Finding The Foot Joints

Lecture 10: Finishing The Leg

Lecture 11: Adding The Arm

Lecture 12: Arm Orientations

Lecture 13: Clening Up The Skeleton

Lecture 14: Adding The Fingers

Lecture 15: Finger Logic And Orientation

Lecture 16: Adding The Eyes And Jaw

Lecture 17: Adding Extra Controls

Lecture 18: Finishing The Skeleton

Chapter 4: Rig

Lecture 1: Setting Up The Rig HDA

Lecture 2: The Initial Control Setup

Lecture 3: The Rig Setup

Lecture 4: The Hip Solver

Lecture 5: Setting Up The Global And Local Controls

Lecture 6: The Solver For the Spine Controls

Lecture 7: The Spine Solver: The Curve Solver

Lecture 8: The Spine Solver: Rotations

Lecture 9: The Spine Solver: Spherical Linear Interpolation

Lecture 10: The Spine Solver: Adding The Interface

Lecture 11: Refining The Spine

Lecture 12: The Legs

Lecture 13: Adding Controls For The Feet

Lecture 14: The Solver For The Feet

Lecture 15: Preparing The Scene For The Arms

Lecture 16: Setting Up The Arm Controls

Lecture 17: Setting Up The Controls For The Hands

Lecture 18: The Shoulder IK Control

Lecture 19: The Shoulder Solver: Calculating Directions

Lecture 20: The Shoulder Solver: Rotating The Shoulder

Lecture 21: The Shoulder Solver: Refining The Solver

Lecture 22: The Solver For The Hand

Lecture 23: The Global / Local Blend For The Arm

Lecture 24: BUG FIX: The Elbow Control

Lecture 25: Cleaning Up The Arms

Lecture 26: Creating Poses For The Fingers

Lecture 27: The Pose Controls For The Fingers

Lecture 28: The Finger Controls

Lecture 29: Adding Local Look-AT Joints

Lecture 30: Adding Controls For The Head

Lecture 31: Adding The Solver For The Eyes

Lecture 32: The Neck Solver

Lecture 33: The Head Solver

Lecture 34: The Jaw Solver

Lecture 35: IK/FK Blending: Spine

Lecture 36: IK/FK Matching: Spine

Lecture 37: IK/FK Interface: Legs

Lecture 38: IK/FK Solver Update: Legs

Lecture 39: IK/FK Arms

Lecture 40: IK/FK Head

Lecture 41: Deformation

Lecture 42: Export: Polygon Reduction And LODs

Lecture 43: Export: The Root Bone

Lecture 44: Export: Character And Animation

Lecture 45: Viewer State And Visibility Interface

Lecture 46: Visibility: Root, Global And Local

Lecture 47: Visibility: Spine And Legs

Lecture 48: Visibility: Arms And Head

Lecture 49: Summary: The End Of Part I And What Can Still Be Improved

Chapter 5: Part II : Optimising And Simplifiying the Rig

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Scene Setup

Lecture 3: The Edit Mesh And Skeleton HDA Setup

Lecture 4: Updating The Skeleton

Lecture 5: Weights

Lecture 6: Weighting Rigind Geometry

Lecture 7: Displaying The Deformations

Lecture 8: Proxy Geometry

Lecture 9: The Skeleton Export Node

Lecture 10: Improving the Interface Using kwargs

Lecture 11: Bug Fixes: Skeleton And Weights

Lecture 12: The Edit Mesh Node

Lecture 13: Setting Up The RigMain Node

Lecture 14: Updating The Inputs Of RigMain Node

Lecture 15: Separating The Weights And Exports

Lecture 16: The Foot Control Joints

Lecture 17: Separating The Skeleton And Controls

Lecture 18: Updating The Controls

Lecture 19: Controls: Cache And Display

Lecture 20: Controls: The Local Controls

Lecture 21: Controls: The Global Controls

Lecture 22: Examining The Spine And The FK Controls

Instructors

Simon Hayes
Animator Rigger and Indie Game Developer

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