Blender FPS Video Game 3D Animator Workflow

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[@AnimatorsJourney]

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[@pfaffnoel]

I love when he says “It’s pretty simple”

[@planimunanim]

Lmao, he says that as I try to interpret literally anything on the screen, yet failing miserably

[@neals2955]

Really wanted to give first person animation a go!! was researching about it and this immediately comes up xD Really valuable information here, Awesome stuff :)

[@IrakliGogava]

if you want shortcuts for Blender transformation in 3D space (move rotate scale) G - MOVE , S - To Scale , R - to rotate .. (then press XYZ for the axis that you want to get effected.) Blender has the best shortkey options , also you can create your custom Shortkeys and it's so handy..

[@FIREBREATH1001]

whoah nice to see Marv hitting the limelights 😎

[@richmemes]

Wait? That’s ma_rv? I had no idea haha 😂

[@FIREBREATH1001]

@@richmemes yessir

[@richmemes]

@@FIREBREATH1001 also I just checked out your channel and your stalker weapon mods look awesome!

[@FIREBREATH1001]

@@richmemes heyy thank you man!! It really means a lot to me ^^

[@richmemes]

@@FIREBREATH1001 no prob

[@epicnessatpeak]

I have been 2D animating for a while and didnt really know how to properly rig and constrain 2 mags...but his definitely helped a lot!

[@thebulletkin8393]

This is some good stuff, been doing it for a few months now and a layout on how to structure it all is super useful. But man there’s a long way to go…

[@robertvalentic4939]

that chair makes it look like he is wearing cat ear headphones 🐱

[@ADEPS.]

Is camera shake animated by hand or the noise Mod in the graph editor.

[@thebulletkin8393]

While animating I use auto keyframe because it’s just so useful, but in order to create some separation between every rotation axis would you make the entire motion on one frame and manually shift around the keyframes, or just keyframe each axis on each frame?

[@jakecarvey]

Great stuff! You guys are a great team at presenting this stuff. Considering that the camera in general is handled by the player controller in-game, do you BUILD IN camera wobble "into" the baked animation? Or does that camera motion somehow get magically sent to the camera controller at runtime?

[@jakecarvey]

for extra credit, there is a lot of direction these days trying to merge FPS, TPS, and VR control systems. Are there any new strategies / control systems you are using to deal with what I guess is now being called (something like) "Full Body Awareness"?

[@SonicTheCat]

Good video, thanks for the tips!

[@stephananemaat]

Really cool. Only critique I'd make is the left hand grip on the gun, the thumb over the top looks really unnatural. Apart from that looks cool. Edit: it's been pointed out to me this is actually a legitimate hand grip, I apologise for the error.

[@kuraiwolf4047]

Its a real thing. Called a "c-clamp" grip.

[@stephananemaat]

@@kuraiwolf4047 Ah I see, thank you I appreciate the correction and will edit my comment

[@DevGods]

When animating the camera is it also exported with the arm animation? Wouldn’t that mean the fps rig wouldn’t be parented to the camera but instead the other way around?

[@AnimatorsJourney]

At least from my experience working in games a camera would only ever be constrained, not parented, and on export to engine you’re baking all anim down. So it doesn’t matter what’s constrained to what because it all gets baked. Cheers

[@mehmetuysun3545]

to achieve this, you make a camera bone for the arms rig, then you attach camera to this bone you created. While animating, you actually animate the camera bone. In game engine, you simply attach your camera to the camera bone you animated.

[@DRockafella]

@@mehmetuysun3545 Thank you! Was confused about this.

[@cartonks.2492]

nice explanation

[@kipchickensout]

i think counter strike animations were originally left-handed because of the animator, and then flipped by default afterwards i think in the newer CS games it's right handed, not exactly sure

[@slavaukraine1489]

i switched from constraints to helper bones and its much easier this way

[@jes3d]

took me a year to realize that was marv

[@keremikzz6509]

i really wonder how they get it done for the multiplayer part. do they do seperate anim for the full mesh or smth else

[@lionn00b]

this is sick, what games has Marvin worked on?

[@xaydaralikimsanboyev9019]

how can we export animated FP camera to unreal engine and how can we use it there ?

[@JustChillingSon]

Where did he get the model for the mw2 gun?

[@codcdevil1505]

He exported it

[@Engoneer]

they are plenty of places on the internet to download some models from mw2

[@s.e.c.u.8340]

@@Engoneer Oh hey you!

[@lovelearn341]

I would like to contact marvin. do you know how i can reach him? Email or other social media sites?

[@RaidensPMC]

Forgive me, I am only just diving into this world in the last month or so, but I assume a multiplayer game would require a whole body mesh as it will be seen by other players? or am I way off the mark?

[@IlIlIIIIlIlIIlIll]

For your local player its just arms. When you play multiplayer the other players will have a full body mesh but its hidden / not used on their local computers. Not all games though! For example Rust and Escape From Tarkov have partial/full body models because you are able to look down and see your body.

[@tnfAngel]

​​​​@@IlIlIIIIlIlIIlIllBut wouldn't that require another animation just for the other players? You can see that he is even moving the shoulder bones just because its not "on camera" and i'm sure that would not look good on a full body mesh (and if that is the case why not just do the full body one and use it on everything?)

[@Imao]

does all fps games use this kind of animation or there are some games that’s animated procedurally, and what can be the difference between them please, thanks :)

[@BeastyBundy]

Every triple A game will use both procedural animations and animation tracks

[@gmodiscool14]

bro i dont know how to use graph editor, this stuff is so daunting. every time i open graph editor theres like a million lines and i just dont get it. does using euler instead of quaternion make a difference with graph editor? should i use that? does it make it so i dont have to edit the graphs of each axis individually?

[@cepheus3d]

Very late response, but graph editor only looks intimidating, it's quite easy to master. All it is, is really just a graph view with the handles going from keyframe to keyframe that you can move/rotate to achieve a desired speed of motion. A detailed guide on using a graph editor is the best way to learn it. You have the Visibility (Eye) icon on the left and you just work your way from top to bottom and check what each curve does by moving it. I find it easiest depending on a complex rig to just turn on visibility on one and move everything with (G) key to see what happens. Euler and Quaternion are used to either make a rig move simpler or more complex. For characters and complicated rigs, Quaternion is necessary to avoid Gymbal Lock, which is a phenomenon when your rig starts producing unnatural twists and motions (like a hand snapping forward in between two poses). It's a bit more complicated than that, but this is a basic example.

[@gmodiscool14]

@@cepheus3d i remember the camera was doing some gimbal lock stuff then i think, but anyways, its just too tedious for me to even try to deal with 3 different axes for every single keyframe

[@christiandelao2547]

This miss on the reload seems like a nice touch, but it means he's missing on the reload every single time, witch seems kinda dumb

[@xanzuls]

23:28 I think the locators in Blender are called empty.

[@huiAPPOAJ]

Missing the hole with the mag is as overused as the tacticool MW19 Parkinson's shaking. But thanks for the presentation, there aren't many videos on this particular topic of fps reloads.

[@RivenbladeS]

Dont bother doing this for unity. You will have broken rig ans model with stretched meshes. Blender parent is broken.