Blender Astronaut Rig.

Hey guys.

[UPDATE] Uploaded a crappy new version (Not yet textured). It has finger rigs and stuff. Very buggy. Download at bottom.

[EDIT] I realized how screwed up the UV and rig was. I'm going to scrap this and start over. The upcoming rig will have fingers and a few other things. It'll sure have a lot more constraints.

I've spent the past few days texturing and rigging the astronaut model included in the game files. As far as I know, it only works in Blender. Haven't tried any other program. Hopefully the community can now make some cool animations with it. I know that the rig is not perfect; it has a couple flaws.

EDIT: I didn't make the astronaut model or texture. All credit goes to whoever made the model and/ or texture. All I did was apply the texture and rig him.

Features:

Rigged Arms
Rigged Legs
Rigged Chest
Rigged Stomach
Rigged Head
Rigged Feet
GREEN Astronaut texture. Can be changed by replacing the green one with others and/or a custom one.
[NEW] Specularity map.

Planned:

Rigged Fingers
Better Overall Rig
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I can't wait to see what the community can do with this. There will soon be better rigs probably, but here's a starter. If you feel like fixing problems with it, you can do it and send it to me to update this post with credit. It is not required to send me updates you make on the model.


Known Bugs:

Feet do not follow the stomach bone when stomach bone is moved up. All fine when moved down.
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Please report any found bugs.

Thank you.








Version 1 Download: https://www.mediafire.com/download/gzagi8j85iqmuhg/SEastronautRig1.blend

Version 2 Alpha download: https://www.mediafire.com/download/2wmc1y91asmho32/seastronautrigfix1.blend

Version 2 1-18-14 update: https://www.mediafire.com/download/ltifcl7dub4gi1f/seastronautrigfix1%282%29.blend

I hope this can help you guys in any way.
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xMoneyShadow

 

Wow that is pretty cool. I'm going to try it out.

 

Must make new skin for my guy now...

 

Thanks! Is it working fine-ish so far? Any bad bugs that I should fix before more people download?

 

Just updated with specularity maps!

They're not perfected yet, but it's decent in my opinion.

 

Going to restart this project. Read the edit on the main post for info.

 

Sorry guys, sorta forgot about the project. I've been watching a load of Blender rigging stuff and I hope i can get an updated version out within a week.

 

Updated! Rig is very buggy right now, and fixes will come soon.

 

would it be possible to port this rig into Gmod? that would be cool

 

I would have no idea. I've never modded anything in the Source engine yet. The models are in the game files, though. Eventually someone might do it.

 

might want to get permission from the devs first to port this to gmod. honestly don't see the point, why bring this functional game model into a world where it loses its function? a game made for posing dolls and taking screenshots? you gotta be kidding me.

 

Well, If someone did get it into gmod with permission, then we could make nice screenshots, movies, etc. Think about it. There's thousands of ragdolls and NPCs on the gmod workshop that make nice scenes.

 

just going to leave this here

 

Updated! Added a new texture and fixed a few bugs.

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/download/ltifcl7dub4gi1f/seastronautrigfix1(2).blend

 

well excuse me! i'm using Gmod for animating. but it would be nice to get the permission from devs to actually port it.

 

I'm sure you could PM Marek or email them. I know virtually nothing about modding the Source engine, so someone else would have to.

 

emailing activison now for permission to use their astronaut model. mofos better agree.

 

About 5 months later, have you gotten a reply or anything?

 

were did you find the textures? ive been trying to use a space engineer model for VRchat which is a unity based game but the models I found (the fbx model found inside the space engineers SDK) doesn't have any textures and attempting to import this .blend into unity results in corrupted pink textures