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Animating First Person Character Weapons in Blender

This Blender tutorial course will show you exactly how to animate all the actions needed for a first-person shooter game, from simply standing around to complex actions like reloading and transforming the rifle into a cool sniper.

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My work on the subject

0 answers · asked November 17, 2019 6:08pm

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aodsto
0 answers · asked November 17, 2019 6:08pm

My work on the subject

Hi,

I worked along with the tutorial, yet I my model differs than the one presented on the videos. Could anyone be so kind to take a look on my effort on sketchab and give a feedback for topology, please? There was a few areas which overwhelmed me, but I think overall result is on decent level. Thank you in advance!
https://skfb.ly/6ON8P

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Any ideas on what could be causing the black flickering on the bottom left of the tube? Left of the red diagonal line towards the end

0 replies · posted November 17, 2019 9:45am

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aaronstalling
0 replies · posted November 17, 2019 9:45am

Any ideas on what could be causing the black flickering on the bottom left of the tube? Left of the red diagonal line towards the end

How's it look so far, a little noisey. Anything else that would make it look better? I very new and still working through tutorials.

It's pretty quick, maybe too quick. The other part of the cylinder goes transparent using a shader and mixer, could that be the issue to cause the black face flickering?

Also can someone please tell me where and how do I find Shader Mixer keyframes in the animation tab? I could get them to appear.
https://imgur.com/XPEvU62

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Grease Pencil Animal Rig

1 reply · posted November 17, 2019 9:11am

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greyphoenix
1 reply · posted November 17, 2019 9:11am

Grease Pencil Animal Rig

Hey
I did have the lectures on grease pencil and "rigging a treasure chest"
SO I tried my hand on combining those two powers. And make a grease pencil rig.
Totally my first one. SO I would LOVE to hear cirtique.
https://gumroad.com/eosfoxx#FNKhA (it's free of course)

My goal will be to have full animatable characters that I have good rig controls.
My biggest issues are the throat and the main body by now. I want the animals also be able to stand/sit on their hindlegs (added a picture that shows how)
Not sure if I can achieve that with just one picture as body. I would love to hear suggestions ot that :)
Basically I try to achieve what you can do with "Spine" or "Dragonbones" in Blender. Just those two programs dont allow multiple charatcer in a file what I would need to animate stories.

Thanks for any comment or critique.

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In the first 30 seconds when you show where we are at, my chest doesn't move

1 answer · asked November 16, 2019 11:42pm

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jjblender
1 answer · asked November 16, 2019 11:42pm

In the first 30 seconds when you show where we are at, my chest doesn't move

I'm not sure if I missed a parent operation or what.
When I select the base bone and move, only the bone moves. When I select the bottom squash bone, only it moves.
What have I missed?

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Where did the original bones go?

1 answer · asked November 16, 2019 10:51pm

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jjblender
1 answer · asked November 16, 2019 10:51pm

Where did the original bones go?

We added three bones in the basic video, but they seem to be gone now. Were we supposed to delete them?

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Bake in blender 2.8

1 reply · posted November 16, 2019 8:58pm

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cgvitto
1 reply · posted November 16, 2019 8:58pm

Bake in blender 2.8

Im lost when the topic is bake in blender 2.8.
I don't know the proper way to bake in blender 2.8, a lot of courses uses Blender render for example the course PANCAKE HOBO and a lot more. Thank you.

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Warning: lacking screen keys

2 answers · asked November 16, 2019 7:54pm

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jjblender
2 answers · asked November 16, 2019 7:54pm

Warning: lacking screen keys

This course looks amazing!
I watched ahead some, and just wanted to warn beginners: no screen keys are used in any of the videos (that I've found).
I've never done any rigging, so this is all new to me.
Recommendation: Re-recording seems overkill, but it would be nice if you might manually annotate some key (pun intended :D) rigging hotkeys that will be new to us beginners.
Thank you for this awesome course!

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