tomjhinton / birbancient

birbAncient

For @sableRaph's weekly Creative Coding Challenge. The Challenge topic was 'Ancient'.

I made a little model in blender and stuck some shaders on it. I'm nothing if not unpredictable.

Blender Bit.

• Pretty simple modelling.
• Cell fracture to make some bits look ageing and crumbling.
• Wonder if that's what god has used to make me feel ever more ageing and crumbling.
• Curves turned into meshes for the plants.
• Shrinkwrap modifier on the vines.
• Gave Suzanne a body.
• Apparently she's based on the monkey from the end of Mallrats.
• Not seen that in a while, wonder if it holds up?

Three Bit.

• Fireflies?Glowy things pretty much lifted from a lesson in Bruno Simon's course
• It wouldn't be coding if there wasn't a battle with some weird problem I didnt understand and this week was no different.
• Loaded in my texture and all my animals deiced to reorientate and position themselves.
• Worried I'd gotten so good at modelling, id crafted sentient beasts.
• Reached the point of just frantically googling "Why are you doing this to me?" & "Mrdoob, why hast thou forsaken me"
• Turns out a skinned mesh must have it's own material.
• No idea why.
• Thanks to discoverthreejs' Tips & Tricks for finally solving it
• As I write this I've got the animation player set up wrong so if you trigger the same animation twice before it finishes it gets confused as to where to reset to.
• I'm intending to fix that.
• It's really unlikely I have fixed that by now.
• If anyone knows about gltf animations and threejs plz help me.
• I mean I could just dig into the code but I confuse very easily.

Shader bit.

• Three similar shaders with some Math.random()'s in the uniforms which change when you click the title for the water/fluid/stuff.
• Warping coordinates and some noise basically
• Thank you Stefan and Patricio for that noise

#Other

• Very cool and useful Font
• Animal Noises Carefully chosen to fit the scene from here