bevy/assets/animation_graphs
Patrick Walton 0094bcbc07
Implement additive blending for animation graphs. (#15631)
*Additive blending* is an ubiquitous feature in game engines that allows
animations to be concatenated instead of blended. The canonical use case
is to allow a character to hold a weapon while performing arbitrary
poses. For example, if you had a character that needed to be able to
walk or run while attacking with a weapon, the typical workflow is to
have an additive blend node that combines walking and running animation
clips with an animation clip of one of the limbs performing a weapon
attack animation.

This commit adds support for additive blending to Bevy. It builds on top
of the flexible infrastructure in #15589 and introduces a new type of
node, the *add node*. Like blend nodes, add nodes combine the animations
of their children according to their weights. Unlike blend nodes,
however, add nodes don't normalize the weights to 1.0.

The `animation_masks` example has been overhauled to demonstrate the use
of additive blending in combination with masks. There are now controls
to choose an animation clip for every limb of the fox individually.

This patch also fixes a bug whereby masks were incorrectly accumulated
with `insert()` during the graph threading phase, which could cause
corruption of computed masks in some cases.

Note that the `clip` field has been replaced with an `AnimationNodeType`
enum, which breaks `animgraph.ron` files. The `Fox.animgraph.ron` asset
has been updated to the new format.

Closes #14395.

## Showcase


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/52dfe05f-fdb3-477a-9462-ec150f93df33

## Migration Guide

* The `animgraph.ron` format has changed to accommodate the new
*additive blending* feature. You'll need to change `clip` fields to
instances of the new `AnimationNodeType` enum.
2024-10-04 22:13:22 +00:00
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