Popular Post david 8.4k Posted December 20, 2017 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Greetings animators! Now that 2017 is starting to wrap up, I’d say it’s a good time to look back at the journey Mine-imator has taken throughout the year and what lies ahead. First and foremost, I’ve been mentoring @Nimi about the technicalities and responsibilities of Mine-imator development, and I’d say that at this point he’s ready to take over the role of bringing you all better experience using Mine-imator onwards. He’s got some very exciting things lined up for Mine-imator next year, which are teased further in part 2 of this dev update. After being in development since spring and a series of somewhat buggy pre-releases, the 1.1.0 update finally arrived, bringing major changes to how Minecraft assets are stored and used by the program. Some improvements were also made to the scenery, blocks and mobs to speed up workflow, and a few other neat bonuses like 3D text and model importing added an extra spark to animations. Thank you all for checking out the pre-releases and your help with bug squashing! Now, as a final parting gift before Nimi takes the wheel of future updates, I have gone through the effort of completely re-inventing the bending mechanic that Mine-imator uses for various body parts. This means that in the near future, body parts will have a more proper bending effect (with pinching and texture stretching) and actually be able to bend in more directions at once! See it in action below! Spoiler These features will be available in the upcoming 1.1.3 patch, which will arrive shortly after Minecraft’s 1.13 update (estimated release early mid 2018), and of course support the new Minecraft map format and blocks as well. Last but not least, happy holidays! Now let’s get hyped for 2018! PS. Happy 5th birthday forums! Part 2 > Thericalviber, SB7989, Sonicxryan and 57 others 59 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolasev 3.4k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) yeah but the arm bending seems weird so idk if I will like it, if I don't, would it be possible to go back to the old version only for the arms/legs ? And if not it's fine. Edited December 20, 2017 by Nicolasev RoboCreep11, UniBrine, JacobTheGamer and 3 others 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmgp 26 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Sweet! JacobTheGamer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inor04 0 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji 1.2k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 YESSSSS!!!!! HanzXD, Hexical Brine and Spontaneous Explosions 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 42 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 That's amazing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayzis 185 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 You're kidding right ?He's not joking...HECK YEEEEEEEEEES ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caeden117 1.8k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Can't believe it's already been half a decade since the Forums started. We should do an Evolution v2 post. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsdewQ 6 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Is it bad that reading that makes me want to not use Mine-Imator until those features have been released? MasterArcher12, Tomas1O1 and Emerald_SWAGGER 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lock_downmc213 126 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Now that's even more better........Hyped Josh The Stupad 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crustyjpeg 2.7k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 YESSSSSSSSSS! Take my money. All of it. Spend it on a high-end sports car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosSamLoh 1.8k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Can't wait for this to come out jaeman109, Josh The Stupad and Benji 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thahunter 10 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Pinching and texture stretching? ;o I want it. Looking forward to the next major update! jaeman109 and Josh The Stupad 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosSamLoh 1.8k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 will you be able to change the quality of the bending? jaeman109 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaeman109 59 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 so wheres my credit for suggesting this ;D YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chono 174 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 G O T Y jaeman109 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 42 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 One thing though, I've never really liked the pinching bends. It looks a bit off and weird, other then that it's pretty great though! jaeman109, Nicolasev and Tomas1O1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollo 3.2k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 I think the new bending would be great for some uses but the old one would be better for other uses. Would there be an option to turn off the model pinching? Nicolasev, mbanders and RiggedPixels11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaCeres 593 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Spoiler On a serious note, this is great. Bending is definitely going to help with creating simpler rigs that don't require parenting tons of blocks, and from the images, I for one feel extremely excited from just the teaser images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakubg1 440 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 For me it's bad news, I need to put more code for Inverse Kinematics working properly (especially for body). But seriously, it's AMAZING! It's the best answer it can be for the questions like "Body bending sideways" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltedJames 221 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Omg... I was just thinking about when you will add different bending just a min ago... and then I check discord lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowNinja5764 110 Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Kinky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwazedilla 1.6k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) I'm really happy that we've gone so far! David's done a huge service to the animator community and I hope that Nimi is just as great. Best of luck and happy holidays, everyone! Edited December 20, 2017 by SteampunkSkeleton Minecraftvinnyq, Nimi, Cryptic Runner and 2 others 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollo 3.2k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 @david Don't forget this on your way out! https://www.mineimatorforums.com/index.php?/profile/1-david/&status=178445&type=status david 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugleberry 1.6k Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) Finally, I won't have to make crappy bending rigs anymore! Great work you guys! Edited December 20, 2017 by Swift blooman420 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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