Character Animations

[Karpov]

 This is the first animation made with this new character. Cut in half, laser death, or whatever you want to call it.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0rEUk1P_0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0rEUk1P_0</a>

Came out pretty good, but this one is quite clean compared to the rest of them. Hope I can get that "bloody mess" touch in the other animations.

PS: that guy just wouldn't die! 

[Lexx]

This is pure greatness.

I'll guess chunks of flesh will be one of the hardest death animations, except if we can make that flying stuff being a 2D animation that is shown while the character animation is played.

[LagMaster]

if you watch the vid in 240 it looks almoast like original 2D

[Bartosz]

This is the first animation made with this new character. Cut in half, laser death, or whatever you want to call it.

bows

Showed that vid to a friend (knows Fallout a bit, and knows 3d as well):
- 'What do you mean new animations, there were such animations in original Fallouts!'
- 'But those are 3d'
- 'Wow'

[Johnnybravo]

He means: http://fodev.net/forum/index.php?topic=13929.msg153562#msg153562

Anyway, any reason why 3D disables sound (that cut+ouch/aaah when killed)? Probably quick to fix, just asking.

[Lexx]

The sound is taken from the critter file name. The 3d models are named different, so no sound is played. If I remember correct, you can define the sound for the 3d models somewhere in the files. Haven't touched this since a long time, though.

[Luther Blissett]

Does anyone have any idea how the timing of the animation is done? i.e. death before bullet / punch arrives? It's the same against sprite based enemies (if your player is 3D) - you shoot one, and it dies before the gun is raised.

Is this something controlled by the engine, or would animations need pauses putting in them or something? Did this happen with the Van Buren models as well?

[Lexx]

Yes, happened with the VB models as well. As far as I know, it's an engine thing-- the targets animation is played as soon as your action is started. You fire your attack right when you click with the mouse and not 1 or 2 seconds later, when the animation is ready.

[Johnnybravo]

The best thing you can do is to make projectiles faster. Since the effect is instant it will not affect the gameplay, but will make a little more sense.
I think the good example is rocket launcher - things explodes before even rocket reaches it's destination.

Another option would be to track missiles even after they were launched, this would allow players to dodge rockets (probably not huge issue considering the power of rocket launcher), and do explosion when rocket reaches the place.
It would however be really useful then, if it was possible to attack empty space, and it would be all technically much more complicated.

One more off-topic - is it possible to replace missiles with models as well? It would be the place where improvement would be notable even when zoomed out, because projectile can be visible from more angles that it's sprites are able to cover.

[Karpov]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9qXMvt3cc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9qXMvt3cc</a>

Short clip, burst anim. It could still use some work, and some sound could help , graaaaaahhhwwww!!! 

Gotta go, bye

[Surf]

Holy moly! Looks almost like the original. Very good job, again.

[Eternauta]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9qXMvt3cc

Lovely!

[Haraldx]

Needs just some more shaking when getting shot, some more gore and it pretty much looks exactly like the original... just in 3D amazingness.

[Luther Blissett]

I like it

Very impressed by the potential of this.

[Karpov]

Yes, it works quite well. I used an attachment for the blood and gore, over the only layer there was available (because I wouldn't know how to add a new one). So I don't have to attach all the stuff to the skeleton, and it is a lot easier. They are just 8 tris flying around along with three red spheres, I think I could add the blood puddle for standard death as well.