Toon shader redux

Over on the Codea Talk forum, we begun wondering whether it might be possible to do the toon shader in just a single pass. If you can halve the number …

Coding 3D Animation #5: ‘toon shaders

Who’s up for a ‘toon shader? 3D graphics on a computer screen is of course an illusion of depth on a flat surface. Sometimes though, it’s fun, or useful, to …

Coding 3D Animation #4: managing multiple actions

In the previous posts in this series, we’ve looked at getting an animated model out of Blender, and then recreating that animation in Codea by interpolating between a set of …

Coding 3D Animation #3: spline interpolation on the vertex shader

A comparison of different keyframe interpolation methods In this post, we’ll look at how the keyframe interpolation technique actually works in Codea. If you didn’t grab the 3D Animation Loader …

Coding 3D Animation #2: out of Blender, into Codea

In this second post in the series, we’ll focus on getting our animation out of Blender and into Codea.

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Coding 3D Animation #1: approaches to reproducing animation in code

Fluidly animated characters are an important part of a 3D game, but getting the animated model out of your modelling software and into your code can be a challenge. A …