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cybereality

Here's a video I made showing that the render I posted is indeed real time.

Erich_L

@fire7side said: I managed to get an IK animation from rigify working in Godot today. Some weird things to work out, but the animation works. Baby steps.

This is something I want to get working! I didn't see you post any pics or video :#

Also, I got to visit a factory today! 10 years in China and my first time. It was so fun to see real conveyors at work. They didn't understand my enthusiasm. The object this guy is squawking on about? Yeah I took pictures of the chinese guy assembling it. So nice to get out. hahaha. I am thinking about working there to make a MES.

fire7side

@Erich_L said:

This is something I want to get working! I didn't see you post any pics or video :#

Also, I got to visit a factory today! 10 years in China and my first time. It was so fun to see real conveyors at work. They didn't understand my enthusiasm. The object this guy is squawking on about? Yeah I took pictures of the chinese guy assembling it. So nice to get out. hahaha. I am thinking about working there to make a MES.

It's not much to look at right now. Very low poly human with no clothes on, and it's just an idle animation. It works though. I haven't tried the blend shapes for blink and mouth move yet, but I can see them in the file and I've already gotten them to work before. I don't have any software for making a video. I'll have to look into that. This is a make human character in Godot, but not animated other than mouth move yet:

cybereality

OBS is free and pretty fast for making videos, but the settings can be confusing at first.

fire7side

@cybereality said: OBS is free and pretty fast for making videos, but the settings can be confusing at first.

I'll take a look. Thanks.

jbskaggs

Speaking of which why is it so hard to get video or screenshots of Godot games running ? - many times I get a game background but no animated things will be recorded.

Bimbam

@jbskaggs said: Speaking of which why is it so hard to get video or screenshots of Godot games running ? - many times I get a game background but no animated things will be recorded.

Can't speak to this issue exactly, but OBS can be a weird beast on laptops with onboard & dedicated GPUs. I had strange behavior because of this and took a lot of tweaking and overriding dynamic switching crap to get it running right and even then the performance hit was fairly notable.

I've recently switched back to a dedicated desktop and OBS out of the box was just solid.

I'd also suggest looking at screen2gif as this is immensely useful/easy to use for short clips and can export to video format too if required.

Bimbam

As for animating, my days this is the part of the process I am worst at.

I've spent a couple days now trying to get my rock monster to smash a mountainside and it still looks terrible or straight up calculates collisions whack :(

And worst of all is the erratic performance. It'll be 60fps in the viewport, then I add one new passive object and I'm dealing with this:

And my desktop is fairly staunch, with a 10600k/64GB RAM/1080Ti

cybereality

If you're on Windows, then you can use Bandicam. It is very easy to use, basically one button, and is hardware encoding, very fast. Works with all APIs, and can record Godot (I used this for my demo videos, even though I work on Linux since it has better performance than OBS). https://www.bandicam.com/game-recorder/ They have a free version that works okay for simple stuff, but the paid version gets you more features.

But OBS is FOSS and does work as well, it's just kind of confusing to use. You have to enable Window Capture and set it to XComposite on Linux. This will capture straight from the video buffer so is pretty fast. I mean it works good enough if you don't want to pay for anything.

Kojack

Another handy one is ShareX. Open source screenshot tool that can record gifs, mp4, auto upload captures to file hosting (like imgur, google drive, etc) and a ton of other stuff including OCR and QR codes. I use OBS for full screen stuff, but ShareX for short clips of smaller areas.

jbskaggs

@Bimbam said: As for animating, my days this is the part of the process I am worst at.

I've spent a couple days now trying to get my rock monster to smash a mountainside and it still looks terrible or straight up calculates collisions whack :(

And worst of all is the erratic performance. It'll be 60fps in the viewport, then I add one new passive object and I'm dealing with this:

And my desktop is fairly staunch, with a 10600k/64GB RAM/1080Ti

I dont know what you are animating in- but you should be able to only rerender what is changing. I wonder if it is trying render everything simultaneously?

Bimbam

Well I got there in the end. If by 'there' I mean "I'm over it and this will have to do":

I'll tidy up the textures but tbh this is gonna be in the BG, maybe blurred with some other effects on top so for the most part it probably won't be noticeable.

I'm using Blender and the issue seemingly was with the base of the land. Turning this to passive absolutely tanked performance, but having as active with dynamic turned off seemed to restore some of it.

Anyway can see it in action (and how much of it you can't see) on my channel

fire7side

@Bimbam said: Well I got there in the end. If by 'there' I mean "I'm over it and this will have to do":

Practice makes perfect. That was kind of a complex deal. IK just opens up a lot of possibilities especially I think with Godot 4 because they made quite a few changes to the skeleton. It should be easier also.

cybereality

Looks great.

Bimbam

In other news, I do data science/ml for my day job and recently upgraded my processing rig from 64gb ram to 128gb. A raster process that used to take an hour to complete now takes 7mins. So satisfying.

Also is it weird I take great pleasure in seeing this? I multiprocess wherever I can.

cybereality

Nice! I have 64GB but it's overkill and I've never seen usage above 32GB in anything I do. But it can't hurt.

Also love seeing 32 CPUs, though this actually does make a huge difference in compiling and light baking.

jbskaggs

Have you guys played this game called Inscryption? It has to be one of the most original games I have played. Even trying to describe would provide spoilers. But I can say I played the demo and was very impressed.

Bimbam

I've never seen usage above 32GB

Raster processing on high-resolution aerial imagery will chew as much as you throw at it. I have to cap at 85% max just to stop it from crashing lol

And yes, that's 100GB swap too

Bimbam

@cybereality said: Also love seeing 32 CPUs, though this actually does make a huge difference in compiling and light baking.

I'm waiting for next Threadripper to drop. So thirsty for more cores.

some_lame_kid

@jbskaggs said: Have you guys played this game called Inscryption? It has to be one of the most original games I have played. Even trying to describe would provide spoilers. But I can say I played the demo and was very impressed.

I heard of it but I have no chance of being able to play it any time soon. You may remember my computer is a war torn toaster. So I watched some other dude play it. It's pretty good. Daniel Mullins has a history of making games that subvert expectation, though I only know about Pony Island and Inscryption.

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