to video games riggers - need advices

[Dimich]

Hey, so to make it short, rig all you want, but make sure to keep the export rig separate from the control rig. Basically the engine in the end just gets the position and rotation of the joints (some engines also get their scale). There are some ways that some engines support that allow you to have the export rig and the control rig be in the same hierarchies, but you can use some naming conventions to let the exporters know that these nodes do not get exported. But obviously some don't.

Some companies make pipelines where you would have 3 different rigs: motion capture, Control Rig, export rig. That might be what you will be after in the end. But the user interface nor the control methods should matter just as long as the final output is on bones that deform the character.

[WhiteMage]

Thanks! I was hoping for something along those lines :)

[dperianen]

I've been wondering for sometime about the rig requirements needed for game engines. I wonder if the documentation for the engines such as Cry and Unreal are openly avaliable to public? Thanks for the intel :)

[Darksuit]

It should also be noted that some engines also have export bone limits as well. This is mainly based off the game engine and the lowest end video card that is being used for testing. IE, some of the low end video cards only support showing 32 bones per character. So this is something that has to be taken into consdieration. There are a number of other little trival things but those will all very based on the game engine you are using.

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