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Thanks so much for letting me know! I'm not sure what happened here.. I've reuploaded here: ruclips.net/video/mT9z5iEQdrE/видео.html

Hi there - thanks for asking! Each mesh is a separate object, but they're all bound to the same rig. How to do this will depend on which 3D modeling program you're using, but in general you would have all the separate meshes as children of a root object and bind each mesh to the bones individually. I could make a video of this process, but it would be specific to Maya since that's what I personally use.

@@studiobright1249 thank you so much for the reply! I use Blender, but I understand the concepts. In this example, I assume you extracted the meshes from a number of different rigs and put them all on one, is that right? Did you have to remove vertex assignments and re-assign them to the one rig? Or did it just so happen that the Synty characters shared an identical rig? I'll be setting up my character generation system from the ground up, no pre-rigged models, so any tips you have for how to prepare will be much appreciated. Off to buy your tools!

Each accessory mesh is bound to the same rig. Your 3D modeling program should have a command to select both a mesh and a rig and "bind" the mesh to the rig. In the end, you'd have a parent object with many child accessory meshes.

@@studiobright1249 thank you again, I also saw your answer to my question on your other video here ruclips.net/video/_D_H_iQoTd8/видео.html Much appreciated!

Thanks for the feedback, Daniel! We enjoyed putting this together for a recent game jam - the goal was to mimic the camera and character movement of the classic PS game "Pandemonium." The storyline was supposed to include a dog running into the forest and being "dognapped" by a mysterious animal tribe, but we didn't have time to make cutscenes. Thanks for playing!

If you mean expensive in terms of memory or computation, there wouldn't be much overhead there. The true benefit is being able to add features to your games without modifying code. This is great when working with others who spend more time building levels than coding. The other benefit not shown in this video is the ability to add more properties to your "scriptable enums," which is something you can't do with a regular enum. Considering that and the likelyhood that game features will expand, the extra steps to set this up initially is worth not having to change it in the future.

@@brightgamedev353 that makes since, I am going to have to play with the idea see what crazy things I can do with it. Thanks

Placing the game objects is quite simple. You just loop through them, do a raycast against the terrain layer starting some distance above pointing directly down, and move the object to the hit location. In this situation there were two different algorithms, one to place game objects (described above), and another to modify a mesh to move each vertex on top of the terrain (hex meshes). I developed and released a prefab placement (and procedural generation) tool which contains this "settle" feature. u3d.as/18jD

Email me and I'll send you a code example: <brightgamedevs@gmail.com>

@@brightgamedev353 awesome, will do! thank you :)

also music is lit

Aw, sorry to hear that! This is a fairly primitive way of doing this, and I would assume there's a way using Blender. I decided the time savings provided by the Mesh Baker asset for Unity Engine is well worth the price.

@@brightgamedev353 I was just wondering if there is an easy way doing this atlasing in maya instead of unity, but it seems there isn't an easy solution, other then doing everything by hand. With my own models this is not a problem, but can get time consuming when preparing bought models for realtime with a lot of single textures.

Thanks for the sub! That system has become pretty powerful - I like it a lot!

You are welcome!

Hey, sorry it took forever, but I just made a new video describing this! ruclips.net/video/fQcxLitGJ5E/видео.html

Thanks, hope it is helpful. Honestly, finding animations to fit your project is pretty tough (for free). The Unity Asset Store is a good place to start looking if Mixamo doesn't have what you need. Otherwise, you will need to either make your own or (modify one that isn't quite right) using Blender or another 3D software.

@@johnson512n28 Yeah, that's what I thought and I was thinking about buying this asset and use the prone animations. assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations/crouch-prone-mocap-27739

@@strackx86 That would do it. Or you could sift through the three, free, mocap libraries: assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations/crouch-prone-mocap-27739?q=huge%20mocap&orderBy=0

I assume you mean the volumetric fog asset? I put a link in the description -- just click [Clone or Download] to get the whole project as a zip.

Bright Game Dev cheers!