https://nilsek.com/tags/gameplay/Recent content in Gameplay on Nils EkHugoen-usMon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nilsek.com/posts/ik-rig/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nilsek.com/posts/ik-rig/<p>Animation done externally will not always fit the environment that the characters will exist in, and this was the case for my 6th game project at TGA. Our biggest enemy had six big legs that would not fit in the environment while moving around. This was what inspired me to create a system to procedurally animate this character depending on its movement, model and the environment around it.</p> <figure class="video"> <video muted preload="metadata" autoplay="true" loop="true"> <source src="https://nilsek.com/videos/IKVid.mp4" > </video> </figure> <h2 id="fabrik">FABRIK</h2> <p>To solve inverse kinematics you can do all the math and find all possible positions of the joints to achieve the desired result. Though this is much too expensive and hard to implement. A much faster and performant algorithm is using Forwards And Backwards Reaching Inverse Kinematics (FABRIK).</p>