2D Blender animation tests

[frpnit]

Hi all,

I was messing around with Blender 3D for 2D animations. It's not that difficult at all, but consumed a good time of mine, since i had to plan the cutouts, and learn about rigging, uv maps, weight painting... Anyway, i think it might be a good solution for spritesheets, or maybe for a realtime 2d skeletal animation (blender can export the whole thing as a .fbx file, dunno if it's possible to parse it back using Löve).

First test - Bending an arm using two bones and an armature deform:


Second test - A traditional walking cycle, using some old sketch i had here:


Hope you like it

[SiENcE]

Interesting. I'm thinking of Spine support for Löve.

Currently supported engines:
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes

But i don't know what .fbx are.

[frpnit]

Interesting. I'm thinking of Spine support for Löve.

Currently supported engines:
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes

But i don't know what .fbx are.

Roughly speaking, it's a format that stores data from 3D model, like positions, rotations, rig (bones), textures used, as well as keyframes if there is some animation. My tests uses a png spritesheet as UV Map, dunno how could be possible to import this stuff into love (and if it's possible at all).

[SiENcE]

Maybe a bit to complicated for 2d and love.

[twobit]

I am just starting to learn blender with the intent to use character animations in 2D-games. FBX import appears to be quite feasible and I am rather happy with the results so far. Mesh deformation and texture mapping might also be possible but I haven't tried it yet.

[spectralcanine]

You can always make your own Blender exporter, the Python API isn't too bad.

Can't see the images.

[verilog]

This is really interesting, I've been toying with the idea of a 2D skeletal system for real-time animation in löve for a while, I'm highly interested on this, mainly because I'm also using blender.

I am just starting to learn blender with the intent to use character animations in 2D-games. FBX import appears to be quite feasible and I am rather happy with the results so far. Mesh deformation and texture mapping might also be possible but I haven't tried it yet.

I can't run the love file, there appears to be something faulty in main.lua, line 18.

[twobit]

I can't run the love file, there appears to be something faulty in main.lua, line 18.

This should be fixed now.

When importing FBX all skeletal information is discarded. I only care for polygon data and object transformations.

A well-adapted custom blender exporter would be ideal! Has anybody of you experience with this?

[spectralcanine]

A well-adapted custom blender exporter would be ideal! Has anybody of you experience with this?

It isn't hard to write an exporter, but I want to see you make a format that is "well-adapted". Every game has its own needs.

[clofresh]

Ah cool, I should have searched before post my topic about spine vs blender. As for a data format for a custom blender exporter, maybe we could conform to Spine's json data format. Then we'd have a good ol' fashion data standard that other animation software could follow and we can just use the same library to load.