WONTOBER #11 - a Wonkephant.
Need several creatures to represent multiple body shapes and leg counts. Hopefully this’ll help me craft a balance and walking scheme that works with lots of different animals. More to come!
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The dynamic duo is back - over a year since they first started flailing around, now they’re hooked up to a custom full-body IK solver using some crazy hacking of the FABRIK and Kabsch algorithms. In theory, this let’s them calculate their poses based on any number of desired limb positions, and determine when goals are unreachable or require repositioning.
Much love to Zalo and his genius-level math utility tools without which this would not exist.
Still want to get the whole system physics responsive, but feeling proud of the progress 🤩
WONKTOBER Day #1. Feeling like dancing.
WONKTOBER Day #7. A little concept art. Since we’re designing the project for mobile, it’s fun playing with more vertical environments.
WONKTOBER Day #6. Early prototypes of the walking system. Wonks come in many shapes.
Look at him go! Combined my custom IK system with a physics controller, and now my bird son is more fabulous than ever.
This uses PID controllers to apply torques to all his body parts, which can add a lot of wobbly personality. Sometimes too much. But now the model will try to maintain the posture set by their IK system, while being fully, physically responsive.
The wonks have motion! Running laps to keep that beach bod.
The system uses all physics and inverse kinematics to move the little bird feet, resulting in some wiggly but endearing movement.
WONKTOBER #9ish? This bird knows how to party!
I realized my previous movement system was breaking all sorts of physics rules that inevitably caused major problems (i.e. constantly exploding). So this neat fellow now moves using joint torques. I built a little script just to point his limbs in a given direction, already pretty amusing tbh.
WONKTOBER Day #5. A one eyed wonk with his ball.
WONKTOBER Day #4. Just trying to relax.
Physically interacting with the creature is a big part of this project. This is one of the lucky few times where yanking him around didn’t cause him to immediately explode 😔
Mama and bb birds checkin out a snack. An old gif from my physics/ik experiments I never shared.