MyRobot Development Part 33

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Hair Stylist Scissors

• New Hair Features

• Washing Machine Behaviour First Look

Hair Stylist Scissors

The scissors are a very simple and easy to use tool that will allow you to become a hair stylist! By moving near any wig, the scissors will highlight a preview cut so you can see how a cut is going to look like.

This was achieved with simple collider proximity tests and enabling/disabling behaviours when in range. The robot stops looking around when you have the scissors near its hair so it doesn't mess you up as you are styling the hair.

The cut itself is actually just overriding the final alpha cutout spread across the vertical Y of the hair mesh's 2nd UV layer. All done in the shader.

I plan to add more animations so the robot reflects and talks about your changes. I will be doing this last.

New Hair Features

 I have added two new hair extensions. One thin and one puffy so you can select based on your needs. There are also 3 new locations on the robot's head that allows you to place these extensions:

• 1x pony tail

• 2x pig tails

Animal ears no longer take over the wig slot so you can now wear both at the same time.

I will be making more types of "base" wigs so you can have more customization.

Washing Machine Behaviour First Look

 As I've said before, physics is a cruel mistress. However I managed to wrangle it about 80% to do my needs.

The robot effectively stacks various existing behaviours into phase queues so that it can place everything it has on its body into the washing machine, and finally press the wash start button. This looks like this:

At each phase the robot performs a modular step required to complete the washing clothes behaviour. If any of these phases fail, it goes back to the beginning. The tricky thing is that everything is physics driven so there is A METRIC TON of room for error.

But it's getting there.

As a side note due to the delay of last week I will be extending the development of the next build by one month. Therefore the next build will be released at the end of this September. It will include more character customization features and simple slice of life features.

Stay tuned!