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[cgmatter]

Finally finished this dang Star Wars mini-series! I was feeling over it yesterday so happy to move on XD

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links (no ad versions):
Star Wars Storm: https://youtu.be/svy9E-z0EiE
Star Wars BB8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTcj16JZ0A0

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Hope ya learned something! I think the physical rolling trick is 💰

[lshawau]

This was an awesome tutorial, but can we make it more advanced and use raycasting to detect a nearby object and have the head "look" at it? - I realise this will be more difficult in your composite shots where it's 2d images in an animation - but will it really, if we create approximations of objects and hide them at render it will still know they're there but they won't be visible or cast shadows? - this means we can say if ray casts and hits object within 1m "turn and look at it briefly" etc.

[cgmatter]

oh for sure - wouldn't complicate compositing at all (because like you said it'd only be for raycasting operation and can be hidden)

shoot out a bunch of rays and then: angle can be determined by the hit vectors (and then process like we did tangent vector) and weighted based on the distances,