How To Move A Character Rig Around In A Web Browser With A Gamepad Or Keyboard (Using Free Software)
This tutorial looks at controlling a character rig in a web browser. The example used in this tutorial is a stick man rig.
The software used is Blender and blend4web. Blender is a free open source 3D software package. Blend4web is an extension to 3D Blender that provides tools and an API for putting Blender content onto the Internet.
Blend4web provide example ‘code snippets’. The Gamepad code snippet controls a character rig. A few small changes allow the code snippet to control any character rig.
The tutorial shows how to make the changes to the code and how to make changes to the character rig in the Blender file. The main changes are matching the name of the character rig and the walk cycle in the code to the Blender file.
In this example the character rig used is a stick man. There are a series of tutorials that show how to make the stick man rig. The tutorial shows how to fine tune the walk cycle before linking the file to the code snippet.
The tutorial is part of a series on making character control games.
For the files used, more tutorials and support materials -
http://blender.freemovies.co.uk