{"id":1038,"date":"2020-10-01T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gim.studio\/?page_id=1038"},"modified":"2021-11-13T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T10:02:02","slug":"animalia-user-manual","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gim.studio\/animalia\/animalia-user-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"Animalia User Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Animalia User Manual<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Overview<\/h3>\n

This is a common guide for all our new animals. We will try to get them out asap, but with a good and comparable feature set. Still a feature or animation may be initially missing, so let us know it\u2019s important for you. Actually, send us all your requests and ideas ? What you should find in the package:<\/p>\n

* mesh of the animal in male and female version or male and young * version of the animals with thin and strong morph targets * materials and textures * LODs * growing set of animations * fully setup physics * all the data required for gFur setup * examples<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Meshes<\/h3>\n

Meshes are located in \u201cContent\\Animals\\AnimalName\\Meshes\u201d<\/strong>. We are using suffix \u201c_F\u201d<\/strong> for female<\/strong> version of the animal, \u201c_M\u201d<\/strong> for male<\/strong> version and \u201c_Y\u201d<\/strong> for the young<\/strong> one. Suffix \u201c_StrThin\u201d<\/strong> denotes mesh version with \u201cThin\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cStrong\u201d<\/strong> morph targets. Subfolder \u201cLODs\u201d<\/strong> contains the lods for the main mesh.<\/p>\n

Materials<\/h3>\n

Main materials are located in \u201cContent\\Animals\\AnimalName\\Materials\u201d<\/strong>. Standard material is called same way as the animal mesh + \u201c-MAT\u201d<\/strong>, for example \u201cAnimalName_F-MAT\u201d<\/strong>. Materials are already assigned to the meshes. There is a material with suffix \u201c_Tess\u201d<\/strong>, for example \u201cAnimalName_M_Tess-MAT\u201d<\/strong>. This material is setup to use hardware tessellation. This material should be used only if gFur is not used. Materials have a few parameters that you can use to tweak the look:<\/p>\n

* Albedo<\/strong> \u2013 uses texture map for the albedo (previously known as diffuse) * Albedo Power<\/strong> \u2013 can change the contrast of the albedo texture * Albedo Colour<\/strong> \u2013 tints the albedo texture with single colour * Roughness<\/strong> \u2013 greyscale (and ideally linear) texture that says which parts of the mesh are shiny\/reflective (black) and which are matt (white) * Roughness Offset<\/strong> \u2013 changes brightness of the \u201cRoughness\u201d texture by adding or subtracting a constant value (which is then clamped to 0-1) * Roughness Power<\/strong> \u2013 can change the contrast of the \u201cRoughness\u201d texture * Normal<\/strong> \u2013 texture used as normal map * Normal Strength<\/strong> \u2013 changes the intensity of the normal map * Metallic<\/strong> \u2013 how metal-like is the surface (usually 0 with animals) * Tessellation<\/strong> \u2013 How much tessellation should be applied. Higher values = more triangles.<\/p>\n

Textures<\/h3>\n

Main textures are located in \u201cContent\\Animals\\AnimalName\\Textures\u201d<\/strong>. Textures are using similar naming scheme as meshes and materials.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Animations<\/h3>\nAll animations were animated and exported at 60fps. Unreal Engine will still show them as if having 30 frames. Animations are located in \u201cContent\/Animals\/AnimalName\/Meshes\/Animations\u201d<\/strong>. Folder animation usually contains subfolders with suffix like \u201c_M\u201d<\/strong>, \u201c_F\u201d<\/strong> or \u201c_Y\u201d<\/strong> for animations belonging to male<\/strong>, female<\/strong> or young<\/strong> mesh variations. Though the rabbit hole goes even deeper \u2013 folder like \u201cAnimations_F\u201d<\/strong>, usually contains the animations, but also another set of folders like \u201cComp\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 for composite animations<\/strong> and \u201cInPlace\u201d<\/strong> for animations that are setup to happen on single spot<\/strong> (even in sequencer). Animations starting with \u201cAdd\u201d<\/strong> are additive<\/strong> animations that are meant to be played on top of other animations like the locomotion animations. \u201cAttack\u201d<\/strong> denotes attack animations (also found with \u201cAdd\u201d<\/strong> prefix). Hit animations<\/strong> start with \u201cHit\u201d<\/strong> (and they can be found with prefix \u201cAdd\u201d<\/strong>). \u201cLoco\u201d<\/strong> stands for the locomotion animations<\/strong>, including swimming. \u201cTrans\u201d<\/strong> is used in transition animations<\/strong>. Animations without obvious prefixes, like Stand_01, Lying_01 and even Swimming_01 are idle animations happening on single spot.\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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gFur<\/h3>\nYou can find the user manual for gFur here \u2013 gFur User Manual<\/a>. Data required for correct fur setup can be found in \u201cContent\/Animals\/AnimalName\/Fur\u201d<\/strong>.\n\n* AnimalName_M_Fur-MAT<\/strong> \u2013 material instance already setup to work with the fur. Assign this to the \u201cGrow Mesh\u201d in the \u201cgFur component\u201d. * AnimalName_M_FurBase<\/strong> \u2013 mesh that serves as a base for the fur setup. Usually this has only the teeth, eyes and claws of the animal. Add the \u201cgFur Component\u201d on top of this mesh. * AnimalName_M_FurGuides<\/strong> \u2013 fur splines exported from 3D app. These guide the grow of the fur and is assigned in the \u201cgFur Component\u201d. * AnimalName_M_GrowMesh<\/strong> \u2013 mesh that makes up the most of the animal and is used to grow the shells of the fur. \u201cGrow Mesh\u201d is assigned in the \u201cgFur Component\u201d.\n\n\"Games\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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