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Karakuri Maker and Karakuri Player

Make and play 3D Manga

[Karakuri Maker Ver.1.0]

- Easy to create 3D Manga.

- Simple UI.

- Fast moves (High FPR).

- Easy bone settings.

Click here to download it from Windows Store.

[Sample 3D Manga]

- Let's play the following samples by using Karakuri Player.

[Karakuri Player Ver.1.0]

- 3D Manga Player.

Click here to learn how to encode to a MPEG-4 video.

Click here to download it from Windows Store.

There is a tutorial to learn how to make a 3D Manga by modeling and directing a monkey. Enter the tutorial from here.

 

Karakuri Maker

Features

[Easy to create 3D Manga]

- The position of a balloon is automatically adjusted to the position of the character's mouth.

- Possible to move many characters concurrently.

- Supporting the action to chase the mouse cursor.

- Supporting the action to hang around randomly.

- Easy to set the camera position.

- Supporting the collision detection not to overlap two or more characters.

[Simple UI]

- Easy to understand the meanings of the icons.

- Only carefully screened functions are shown.

- Only the left button of the mouse is necessary to operate the application.

[Fast moves (High FPR)]

- All the operations for polygons are written by Native C++.

- No rattle motions on slow laptop computers. 

- The polygons around the joints are quickly calculated to move naturally.

 

[Easy bone settings]

- All the body parts are defined. Just use them.

- Possible to adjust the motions of the character with moving it.

- Easy to set the motion for walking or running by using the reciprocation action.

Karakuri Player

Features

[3D Manga Player]

- Just set the application as "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file." for ".xbone" file.

-Open an ".xbone" file, and the application play it.

3D Manga

Features

[Bird and Fish]

- The bird can flap and fly on the sky.

- The fish swims in the pond. A translucent polygon is used as the surface of the pond.

 

Click here to download the sample.(Karakuri Player is necessary to play it.)

[Two cats]

- The two cats chase the mouse cursor.

- The collisiton detection function works, Two cats are not overlapped (normally?).

 

Click here to download the sample.(Karakuri Player is necessary to play it.)

[Driving dog]

-The wheels of the car can be rotated, The handle can be moved. The windshield is expressed by a translucent polygon.

-The collicion detection does not work if the start positions of two characters are the same. In this sample, the dog and car are overlapped.

Click here to download the sample.(Karakuri Player is necessary to play it.)

[Salamander]

- The reptile climbs the wall.

- It moves like a living one.

 

Click here to download the sample.(Karakuri Player is necessary to play it.)

[Monkey Mountain]

- The sample has been created for the tutorial.

- The monkey has been created based on the rubber man that is the default mesh for Karakuri Maker.

Click here to enter the tutorial.

Click here to download the sample.(Karakuri Player is necessary to play it.)