When it comes to silly hats, Harpa’s approach is to make things as jiggly as possible, without causing problems.

The 'Sausagebucket' hat as shown its final form, with its bones showing, and with physics colliders visible.Ĭoding the right amount of wiggleEverybody knows you don't want your wiggly sausage hat to be too wiggly. It’s like my past is haunting me through this hat.” “I had to do 12-hour shifts there, and every day I would come home smelling like hot dogs. She used to work at a gas station back in Iceland. “I’m getting hungry looking at this,” Christian says. But this only makes the rebellious sausage even more wiggly. In Maya, they adjust the sausages’ properties for Dampening and Stiffness. It was wiggling normally before, which is concerning,” she says.Ĭhristian Øelund, Senior Technical Artist, rolls his chair over to her desk to help troubleshoot the rogue wiggler. “These ones are wiggling fine, but this one’s wiggling all on its own. Each one jumps when she clicks it, responding with a playful little bounce. She resets the physics, then tests the individual sausages to see how they behave. She punches in some numbers in the model’s properties, and the sausage links go limp, drooping down over the rim of the bucket. She’s fine-tuning the hat’s physics setup using Unreal Engine. They used to be a lot more floppy,” she explains. It’s a metal bucket with a leather chinstrap, and a big bouquet of sausages flopping out the top.īut making the perfect wiggly sausage hat is easier said than done. You might not call it a hat by any conventional definition, but the dwarves will be using it as such.

Harpa Ellertsdóttir, 3D Artist at Ghost Ship Games, is making a new hat for the dwarves. The rogue wigglerIt’s a Tuesday afternoon in August, and Harpa’s focus for the day is troubleshooting the upcoming sausage hat.

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