Quads, glorious quads!

Between all the editing and camera work for the short, I decided to take a break and convert the geometry of the character models from triangles to quadrangles. As you can see the models are much cleaner than the decompiled once. This conversion would also allow me to mesh smooth the models if I decide to do so later.




Also, very important information for anyone that doesn't know you can find all the rigs that Valve made in your steam folder. They are great and ready to animate the only problem is that you would need to build your own facial rig. The path where you can find them is:

...\Steam\steamapps\YOURUSERNAME\sourcesdk_content\tf\modelsrc\player\CHARACTERNAME\parts\maya

Back and Ready for Action

Hello everyone! After about 8 months of not being able to work on the short, I finally got the time and inspiration to continue. The Medic facial rig is ready for testing. I made a small video that demonstrates the features. After animating the Heavy facial rig I realized what could be improved and tried to implement it in this one. There are more joints and less unnecessary predefined mouth shapes and expression. Enjoy!

P.S. Right now I am working on the layout, so hopefully I have something to show soon.