Procedural Mesh & Animation with the Official Unity Spline Package | Unity Tutorial

Learn how to use the Unity Spline Package to generate a smooth procedural mesh between a set of points.
We'll dive into:
⚫ How to use the Official Unity Spline Package
⚫ How we can Animate a Spline at Runtime with MATH!
⚫ Challenges with Animating that Spline
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Chapters:
00:00 Topic Introduction
00:25 What is a Spline?
01:36 Get the Spline Package & SAMPLES!
02:12 Making a Procedural Snake
04:08 Spline Extrude Component (from Package)
05:28 Animate the Spline with SnakeSplineAnimator (SnakeSplineAnimator.cs)
08:05 Performance Analysis
09:15 Closing Thoughts & How to Support LlamAcademy

[@alec_almartson]

Thank You for making this video.
Bookmarking it for future reference 📚📖🕯💡

[@LuRybz]

Your channel is awesome! really, you always bring one step further.

[@Major_Lag]

Nice vid, as per usual. Couple of thoughts:
You could avoid clipping through the “head” capsule by locking the second knot in place relative to the head, and starting the sine calculations from the third knot. (Probably not that useful as you’ve dropped this implementation, but I felt the need to share anyway…)
Using the “shaded + wireframe” option for the scene view is a great way to demonstrate how many triangles are being generated at the different detail levels, especially when the snake is somewhat camouflaged against a similarly dark green background.
Thanks for continuing to share your knowledge! 😀

[@LlamAcademy]

Great feedback for ways to improve this. Thank you 🙏!

[@morrischma9565]

Would you be able to make another video compary libarys this time for unity dungeon generators likeDungeon Architect, DunGen, RoomGen and any others on the assets store. I know these are high maintanace videos so i would understand the reservation, however your video on procedural destruction was excellant and unique among other gamedev youtubers.

[@LlamAcademy]

I do want to do more of those, but they are very time consuming and right now I'm working on another project that is also time consuming. Once I get through some of this one I'll see if there are some opportunities to do more comparisons like that.

[@morrischma9565]

@LlamAcademy can't wait for the work in progress project. And glad to here an idea like that is in contention. Thanks for responding :)

[@YoungMoneyFuture]

Is it possible to add splines as sub containers to a non-humanoid creature like an octopus or unique monster NPCs?

[@LlamAcademy]

Yes, but as you saw here, animating those will be problematic

[@littleface7060]

Could you make a working bike chain using the spline system?

[@LlamAcademy]

Yeah, I think that could work.

[@littleface7060]

@@LlamAcademy could "you" make a working bike chain using the spline system?

[@littleface7060]

@@prezadent1 I know
I just want him to show us how to use the spline system more

[@LlamAcademy]

Oh, me specifically. Probably not honestly. I’m sure I’ll cover other things with splines but doing a bike chain isn’t something that fits into any games I currently have planned.

[@littleface7060]

@@LlamAcademy what about tank tracks?
That would be good no?