Plugins CustomUnityAsset BlendShapes Controller

[Acid Bubbles]

Acid Bubbles submitted a new resource:

CustomUnityAsset BlendShapes Controller - Animate or configure Unity's blend shapes on objects with SkinnedMeshRenderer

BlendShapes

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Animate or configure Unity's blend shapes on objects with SkinnedMeshRenderer. Useful...

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[Nawen]

Wow, when can we get that asset, I'm assuming the womb asset isn't included with this, and would there be an oral one too 0_0?

 

[Acid Bubbles]

Acid Bubbles updated CustomUnityAsset BlendShapes Controller with a new update entry:

BlendShapes v1.0.1

- Now works in subscenes

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[CernoAlpha]

anyone have a good workflow to make blend shapes from Blender, to Unity to Vam?

I get an issue making a shape in Blender with a key that modifies it, but then I import it to Unity and dont see the key...I must be missing a step

 

[Acid Bubbles]

You must import them:

Check in the comments, there seems to be a few gotchas too

 

[CernoAlpha]

You must import them:

Check in the comments, there seems to be a few gotchas too

Thanks, got to where I can modify an object with a Key slider in Unity. I cant seem to get it into VAM however. It doesnt appear in my assetbundle.

 

[CernoAlpha]

Thanks, got to where I can modify an object with a Key slider in Unity. I cant seem to get it into VAM however. It doesnt appear in my assetbundle.

nevermind, fixed it! I was putting the FBX in the assetbundle, which didnt work. Once I made it a prefab, it worked great, and could use your plugin to access the modifying key. Works like a charm! Now off to do some changeble shapes...

 

[Acid Bubbles]

Please ping me when you did something, I'm curious

 

[Jackaroo]

Suggestion to try for anyone who does scenes.

Im wondering if (in vam) one could attach some collision spheres to the object ( this uterus, a fleshlight, ect) bones so that the blendshapes will move according to collision?

 

[Acid Bubbles]

That's a very good question...

 

[robbie85s]

Thanks a lot for this, Acid, and for everything else you've developed for vam 1. I think with some clever rigging, and sequencing in / out of multiple assets with triggers in timeline, I can make some pretty convincing body fluid "animations".

It's going to take a few passes to figure out the best way to do it, and they will all end up being rather bespoke, only good for a certain distance onto a specifically rigged plane, etc. But with no fluid sim in the current build, honestly I think this will end up being the best pipeline.

If I get something built into a scene that looks realistic enough, I'll be sure to share and ping you.

 

[robbie85s]

Thanks a lot for this, Acid, and for everything else you've developed for vam 1. I think with some clever rigging, and sequencing in / out of multiple assets with triggers in timeline, I can make some pretty convincing body fluid "animations".

It's going to take a few passes to figure out the best way to do it, and they will all end up being rather bespoke, only good for a certain distance onto a specifically rigged plane, etc. But with no fluid sim in the current build, honestly I think this will end up being the best pipeline.

If I get something built into a scene that looks realistic enough, I'll be sure to share and ping you.

After going down the rabbit hole with this, it opened my eyes to a lot of other possibilities out there, and I've been trying out a few different approaches. There are definitely ways of getting believable results. For some scenes, using custom sculpted meshes and triggering successive blendshape modifiers I think is the way to go.

But in wrapping my head around that workflow, I ended up coincidentally discovering that you can also get amazing results from using the fluid simulator built into blender and baking each frame of the sim into its own mesh, throwing all the frames (meshes) into a single assetbundle, and then using timeline to trigger a new assetname within the bundle every "frame" (e.g. build the fluid sim at 25fps and put a trigger to change the assetame within the bundle every 0.04s in timeline). So in this way it's more or less stop frame animation, which sounds derpy, but actually looks incredible. Bringing in character meshes from your vam scene and using them as the effectors (colliders) inside the fluid domain really ramps up the possibilities. You can get an entire alembic animation into Unity 2018 and play it, but I think there are too many roadblocks to ever accessing it in vam through a CUA animation because unity is just streaming out of the abc format, so I can't see how to get anything real into an assetbundle that vam can actually work from. Anyway that's all thread-jacking a bit because it's nothing to do with blendshapes.

And the blendshapes approach is superior in some cases anyway, because the fluid sim isn't capable of handling all the stuff you'd like to see in a vam scene. Also the two techniques can be combined for situations other than the... obvious ones. This includes splashing, drinking, throwing a water balloon, dripping candle wax, whatever.

I'll upload a couple example gifs when I can get them ready, bit busy with work this week.

 

[TRSD]

This plugin is basically what got me into asset creation, since the possibilities suddenly seemed infinite.

I've been wondering if it's possible to make the plugin load BlendShapes from multiple meshes in one prefab? It would make the workflow a lot nicer, since I currently I have to merge all the parts of a model, and apply modifiers before making my shapekeys. If I want to change something fundamental it's surgical work.
As is, it seems random which mesh it'll grab blendshapes from, even if I can adjust blendshapes from the different meshes in the prefab inside Unity.

 

[TRSD]

Probably not what you were expecting people to use BlendShapes for

 

[Acid Bubbles]

@TRSD That is SO COOL! Add a camera zoom, some slow mo effect (see https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/timeline-6-demo.19171/ for example) and some smoke and you got something freakin' cool! (Actually it's already freakin' cool )

 

[TRSD]

@TRSD That is SO COOL! Add a camera zoom, some slow mo effect (see https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/timeline-6-demo.19171/ for example) and some smoke and you got something freakin' cool! (Actually it's already freakin' cool )

I'm on it! Slow-mo effect might be a little tricky with particle effects though. But I'll see what I can do.

 

[TRSD]

@TRSD That is SO COOL! Add a camera zoom, some slow mo effect (see https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/timeline-6-demo.19171/ for example) and some smoke and you got something freakin' cool! (Actually it's already freakin' cool )

Checked out the scene and figured out my problem. I was using scene time scale to slow things down, figured that would make the physics behave the most realistic. But I noticed this makes Timeline's updates to positioning and storables choppy (not so much the person, but the parented CUA for some reason?).
Much better results slowing down Timeline, and I'm not sure it really changes the look of the physics that much (recoil pushback).