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How do you "separate" or "explode" a 3D mesh in Godot? (self.godot)

submitted 3 months ago by ICastFist to c/godot

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I'd like to create an effect similar to 2 death animations that exist in Crash Bandicoot 3.

In one of them, Crash is disintegrated: all the triangle faces get separated and fly apart. A similar triangle separation is seen when he dies from fire, the triangles fall separately.

The second is a simple separation of the legs and torso. One enemy that exists in the 1st stage can cut Crash in half, which will cause the torso to stay in place while the legs walk away.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of course it does, you can achieve that with a simple vertex shader by just moving each vertex in the direction of its normal. However, since the vertices are joined into triangles, this will just result in the model getting bigger instead of "disintegrating".

For that to work, you would need a model where each triangle is a separate surface.

Another way which might work would be to enlarge the model like I illustrated above while simultaneously making pixels which are further from an edge than a threshold value transparent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The vertex shader is low enough level that it has no concept of shared vertices (nor really anything above triangles for the GPU), so this will work without individual meshes.

Here's a quick test project I made using a single cube mesh and the shader code

VERTEX += NORMAL * (sin(TIME)+1.0) *0.1;

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Slick!