We worked together with the sound design studio Red Pipe to create unique sounds to all our tool and GUI animations. Sound should always be seen as important as the visuals, where well put together they can make all the difference for the experience. One of our main goals was to give our characters plenty more hair to play with, along with more dynamic motions. We have also created a specific shader for our hairs to optimize the rendering even further.Īs there are thousands of calculations at times needed to be made each frame for our hair, these solutions gave us a way to triple the amount of hair strands from what can be seen in Toca Hair Salon 2. As most of the phones and tablets today have several processor cores, we made it so that whenever you interact with the hair, by combing, coloring or cutting it, those calculations can make use of more processor cores where available. This required some very specific solutions to open up for better performance. We developed a hair creation tool specifically for Toca Hair Salon 3 to generate hair roots for all our characters. These were really fun challenges for us programmers, as they all were so very visual and hands-on! a hairstyle saving and loading mechanism to generate our characters visually.an animation system to assemble and output all our personality varieties.
First the characters are modeled and rigged for animation, where after we have a system which applies different animation personalities, voice personalities, hair and apparel styles. This required some new tools to be invented, to keep a good level of workflow throughout the development. Our characters in the app have quite some background, if we look at how they are put together. When looking at the finished result today, I really think our team managed to pull off something quite unique and amazing. With Toca Hair Salon 3, it has been an interesting challenge to level up the play experience from its predecessors, as they already were so well-functioning and thought-out in detail. Hair and everything around a Toca Hair Salon app is a really fun concept to work with.
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