Improvements to shoulders (Patreon)

Published:

2015-12-09 15:06:02

Imported:

2021-08

Content

The way shoulders behave in Yiffalicious is something we've been wanting to improve for quite some time now. We finally decided to bite the bullet and allocate time for this.

These past few days we have developed a driver that eases the negative deformation caused by the IK rig. This solution is far from perfect, but should produce more pleasant deformation. Here are the results of our driver:

With driver

https://gfycat.com/SmoggyRecentDonkey

https://gfycat.com/AcademicCheeryEmu

Without driver (for comparison)

https://gfycat.com/GracefulSmugBluet

https://gfycat.com/FilthyBoldAmphibian

Disadvantages of the driver

This solution required us to add a second pass to the IK solver, virtually doubling the calculation time and performance impact of the IK. Because of this, this shoulder driver is not enabled by default. If you want to enable it, you need to go into Menu > Graphics, and increase the "Driver quality" option.

Conclusion

The results of the driver is mixed across our characters (we have applied it to all of them). Some characters get better deformation than others. But in all cases, it seems to improve the quality nonetheless.

If all goes according to plan, this feature should be available in 0.4.2, which is scheduled for release later this week.

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