Mesh Skeletal Making

Build sophisticated multiple bone structures

Unfolding engine has a sophisticated bone system. In the future I plan to add animations. But right now it has the ability to link statics together using bones.

Tutorial (Making your first mesh)

Setting up the mesh placer

To create a mesh / place one down select it from the menubar

You can get the mesh painter from the landscape tools

you should see the mesh toolbar come up

1 is the to open up the database of mesh files, Once open you can press 2 to create a new mesh. Left clicking on a premade mesh allows you to select it to place in the world while right click edits it.

A example showing a structure made

Creating Structures / Characters Guide

Heres a step by step guide to build structures

1. Select a static in the static box on the left

2. Drag it upwards from the white triangle in the center of the screen, selecting either the bottem of the bone middle or top.

3. Continue adding on bones / other statics until you have the structure you want

4. If you want to add more sprites to each layer click on the bone you want to add more sprites to, these could be eyes or different decorative effects. After you click on it, you'll need to resize the window to show the other options

The sprite layers will appear when the window reaches a certain size

1. Pressing +1 add new sprite layer will create a new sprite layer.

2. You can apply different settings to the sprite

3. Once you have done that, press Save on the top Right and

you can layer sprites on top each other with their unique properties and effects.

Offset X / Offset Y controls the x and y position in relation to the bone. Size is the general size of the sprite multiplied by the bones size. Scale Y just controls the size in the vertical access. Rotation changes the image angle in relation to the bones image angle

Moving bones [Moving Tab]

The mesh creator has two modes which are located on the top left.

[Move Parts] [Create Body Parts]

Selecting move parts allow you to move the individual bones in a more flexible style

An example of the move parts tab selected in the bone maker

1. Rotate : Rotating moves the bones on a rotation basis only and doesn't apply scaling and affects the angle of every other bone after it

2. Move : Can apply scaling or rotation depending on where the bone is selected. Experiment to find the best position for you.