Guillaume Blanc

@quaternius @SplineMr I'm updating ozz-animation samples to use these animations. Great animations and cool mesh, it looks great! Thanks, @quaternius, for distributing them under CCO licence. guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/…

What if I told you there is a kit with 120+ animations, a universal humanoid rig, easy to retarget and compatible with Godot, UE and Unity? Just released! There's a FREE version with a ton of the anims quaternius.itch.io/universal-anim… Huge thanks to @SplineMr who helped me! Follow him

@SheriefFYI Thanks. That was interesting to do. Mostly tooling and sample code as all the low level was already available.

@jozz_sc very nice!!

The final piece of the puzzle: root motion blending. The API reuses the recipe of animation blending job, to interpolate n layers of motion. Root motion blending sample can now be tested in your browser👇 guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/…

Sorry mate, I had to find a way to keep you around. Try motion accumulation sample in your browser👇 guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/…

@tamat I think it can't be at the same time indeed. When animation driven, physic solves collisions but do not drive the character.

@jozz_sc no, I just cant wrap my mind around the idea of having a position for my character that is driven by physics and at the same time by a keyframe of the animation.

After years looping in-place, root motion extraction finally allows accumulating motion coming from animations. Run Forest, run!

@tamat Yes ! use ozz animation 😉. Kidding,.. What was your issue ?

@jozz_sc Never managed to solve this in a clean way. Any tips?

@SubstrataVr More generally, root motion is useful when the character moves away from the animation's origin: an attack, a jump, a dance...

@jozz_sc This is cool, what would you use it for though? Presumably the player physics will have a set run speed already, independent of the running animation?

@SubstrataVr The two approaches (code or animation driven) are widely used. It's not obvious for a run animation that almost has a constant velocity indeed, but that would for a limping walk/run for example.

@zet23t 😂

@jozz_sc Whew, first time watching it, I thought that guy was going to fall off the plane - what a relief he didn't😅

Root motion extraction is now supported by ozz import pipeline (fbx2ozz, gltf2ozz) on feature/motion branch. Enable it from the importer configuration (as usual): #L66" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/guillaumeblanc…

@studio_galt Root motion in this example is imported from an animated joint of the skeleton. That's what the fbx2ozz or gltf2ozz importer/tooling will do too. To edit motion, you can edit the joint's animation in the DCC.

@jozz_sc Looks cool. Is the root motion editable?

I started working on root motion extraction and added a new sample to allow experimenting with extraction parameters. Check out the sample live in your browser: guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/… I'm looking forward to hearing feedback and questions.

More details about those changes added to the documentation: #sampling-animation-backward" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/…

ozz-animation 0.15.0 is out! The long wait was worth it: 30% better compression rate, massive runtime performance optimizations (backward reading, seeking long animations, ...) and more. github.com/guillaumeblanc…. Thanks to all contributors.

ozz-animation pre-release 0.15.0 is ready for testing, with 30% better compression rate and massive runtime performance optimizations github.com/guillaumeblanc…. Please share your feedback.

@SheriefFYI Are there interesting PR to do from your fork? Any chance to sync back to the original depot? I believe 0.15 optimizations are worth it ;)

@jozz_sc No, this is my own fork from 0.13 ( 5ec6b509492eee2f799322b4b4cc3879f5735003 ). I thought the project abandoned and forked earlier, unfortunately.

ok I may have taken a breather ;) Check out the pre release 0.15.0 for compression and runtime performance optimizations! github.com/guillaumeblanc…

@SheriefFYI So that means you ran version 0.15? Any issue or other feedback?

@jozz_sc Before and after animation loading times from my benchmark:

@FlohOfWoe I could make it work, but the fix you propose is welcome indeed !

I started ozz-animation to experiment with new programming practices and have fun coding. It now has 2k+ stars, games shipped with it! Past or present, big or small, throwaway or shipped by millions, please tell us about your project using ozz-animation: github.com/guillaumeblanc…

@FlohOfWoe You rock 💪