Character Animations

[Gray]

Specially prepared character models should solve most of problems. It's better to spent some some minutes to make partitioned body, then hours to force it partitioning in real-time.

[runboy93]

I was a bit worried about special death animations, after spending so much time thinking how to achieve these , and test over and over, I came to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Lc81Fb_ZU

Great video, but we need blood and hardcore

[bikkebakke]

nice, but first one is too fast, should slow it down a bit.

[Solar]

Any chance of a unique stealing animation? Something to stop people using science on people and causing them to attack someone who is under protection.

[Karpov]

Well...if we do that, it would have to be very disimulated, so it is harder to detect, after all, you are stealing.

[TommyTheGun]

It could differ just a bit from normal "use" animation. That way, if you really pay attention on whats going on, you know theres a thief around, hmm?

[Lexx]

You would only see the animation if the steal-check fails.

[Karpov]

I completed the dodge animations for all weapons, but that does not mean they are finished. Check them out, and we'll discuss what needs to be fixed. I'll do the same thing with all of the animations, so we can spot problems and fix them. Also, they have been uploaded to the repository.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL82Ozgs5R4

At the end of the video I test a motion capture file I downloaded, just to check if I can add animations that were not made specifically for this character. However, motion capture does not seem to fit the fallout style, I believe Van Buren animations were made with that technique  .

[pistacja]

The mocap is great

In the spear-dodge the char makes a move with his left hand to his forehead (brushing his hair), that's not part of the dodge it's part of the "idle" animation, right?

[Luther Blissett]

At the end of the video I test a motion capture file I downloaded, just to check if I can add animations that were not made specifically for this character. However, motion capture does not seem to fit the fallout style, I believe Van Buren animations were made with that technique  .

Hahahaha  

[Surf]

Hehe @ the end.

It looks very good, the dodging with minigun and other heavy weaponry looks a bit stiffy though. It's a bit cheesy how easily the character lifts up the heavy weapon.

[Karpov]

Hehe @ the end.

It looks very good, the dodging with minigun and other heavy weaponry looks a bit stiffy though. It's a bit cheesy how easily the character lifts up the heavy weapon.

Yes, I noticed that too, it should look like it is heavy, and not made from recicled paperboard  .

The mocap is great

In the spear-dodge the char makes a move with his left hand to his forehead (brushing his hair), that's not part of the dodge it's part of the "idle" animation, right?

Yes, it's part of the idle anim, but one of the reasons i did not make those for all weapons is because the character plays it right after every other animation, like walking, and it looks bad scratching his head all the time.

PS :I missed the Rocket launcher animation in the video.

[Graf]

This video is... hilarious, Karpov It has revived my belief to mocap in Fonline.

So, maybe some motion capture still could be used?

A few month ago, I've got an idea to buy 6 web cams and special software, which is all together allows user to make a motion capture even at home, but then you've shown your amazing animations and I desided to not to use that trick.

[SmartCheetah]

Beautiful thing. End of the video made me laugh, hahaha. And I agree with Graf - we could use that motion capture thing for some tricks and new animations like sitting/lying/whateva
You sure we can't use that dance?   It looks amazing and could be nice easter egg

Oh, and about minigun animation: IMNSHO it looks good as it is. After all he's dodging and using force of all body to move, so it's not only based on his arms strenght. Second thing is that barrel isn't the heaviest thing in the minigun, so it looks pretty balanced actually.

[Jotisz]

Real awesome anims the ending of the video has made my day. About the heavy weapon dodge I dunno if it possible to move them like that but I definitely like the motion there so for me its more then ok.