Daz After Effects Animation

[3D Novelist]

Hello

I'm currently looking into creating scifi- hud information animations.
Like this one from the game Affexon:

I know this can be done using After Effects. I already looked into it but creating something like that from scratch is a little hard for now.

Does anyone know any free/affordable presets? Something either ready to render or at least a solid base I can build up on?

 

[MissFortune]

You're probably looking for sci-fi hub templates. You'd be hard pressed to find anything under $20, though (MotionArray at $15 for templates is a pretty good deal.).

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[osanaiko]

I am misunderstand what you are trying to do, but using after effects is only good for pre-recorded video/stills.

If you want to add "3d" positioned/perspective panels with dynamic content (i.e. those character stats which might change as the player makes progress) into a game, you'd need a way to render those within the game engine.

Using a true 3d engine like unity et al. it would be relatively easy to render dynamic text onto a surface placed in front of the normal 2d plane. Of course if you use Unity then you need to take care of all the other basic VN functionality that renpy gives for free (like dialogue systems, saves, rollback, translation, settings etc) which means there's a lot of basic work even before you do the game dev parts.

If you are planning to use Renpy, it's not quite so easy but there is the

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. Using this you can position Renpy displayables in 3d space, so if you spend the time to make the frame background image and effects you want using renpy ATL you could get some very cool visuals.

Also take a look at Aka-kyouryuu's stuff

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(will need translation). I believe Aka-kyouruuu also has a number of posts on Lemmasoft helping people use it.