Character Animations

[LagMaster]

i whoud love to see a new devblog with the 3d progress

[Luther Blissett]

Well, in a sense the entire of this subforum is the 3D dev blog. I know it's not a proper separate blog, but other than a few PMs here and there, pretty much everything that anyone does gets posted on here as it's the only method of communication between the volunteers.

I've not put anything new up recently myself as I haven't actually done anything  Been too busy with "real life" and "real work" recently, but next on my list is to finish off some of the tutorial / info things. After that, it's probably back to testing, rigging, modelling, texturing etc.

[Karpov]

So I have this "normal" burst death anim, but I still don't get the blood to be enough to be seen.
Better video (that means not done with Windows Movie Maker...)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuDTY_grsm0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuDTY_grsm0</a>
It's quite hard to score one of these criticals with 70 percent critical chance, but I did it at the end of the video 
Still in progress...

Luther, the flashes are related to the animation set and not to the weapon itself . I think I can deactivate that layer for plasma and laser weapons so that it does not appear.
Bye, good luck. 

[Haraldx]

Looks great... but there's something wrong with it. The blood seems to disapear much faster than in the regular 2D animation...

[barter1113]

Oh my god ! Karpov u r the best. Keep good work and best for u and rest artist 

[Karpov]

Looks great... but there's something wrong with it. The blood seems to disapear much faster than in the regular 2D animation...

I've been watching the original sprites and I noticed the blood spreads everywhere, I could try adding some random chunks of flesh. I will need them for exploding death animation anyway. Also I will try to make it shake more , it is too smooth right now. 
  The single shot death is almost done , but I need to be accurate with the timing there, to avoid the issue with the sound delay that some npcs had in fallout 2.
After that one we only need the "explosive death" I think... pulse and flame can be used as sprite. But plasma... that's a tricky one.
 
Ok, bye.
Thank you barter1113 

[Johnnybravo]

Use sprites for plasma, liquid transformation always look bad in lowpoly environment and there is really no need to have it in 3D anyway, unless transition would look really crappy.

[Josh]

lazy approach would be to have it move to electric death state where whole body is gray then have it turn into a puddle. this way you could use same animation for all

[Lizard]

But plasma... that's a tricky one.

Subdivide/liquid simulation around a skeleton from a "shocked" stance? For low-poly, i'd imagine "stripping the skin downward" and scale the bottom up to puddle edges. But how would the textures behave?

[Luther Blissett]

lazy approach would be to have it move to electric death state where whole body is gray then have it turn into a puddle. this way you could use same animation for all

That's actually a very good point. Eventually we'll want everything as accurate as possible, but if there's a usable simple alternative, it could be done much quicker. The final versions can always be adjusted / tweaked and finished at a later date, of course.

[Johnnybravo]

You cannot do 1 on 1 conversion of the particular animation when the character is burned and falls apart to pile of dust. The animation where person is just burned down or completely "eaten" can already be done.

[Surf]

Will there eventually be a possibility to take 1,2 frames out of the animations to make them look a bit closer (=more choppy) looking to the original animations?

[Johnnybravo]

Will there eventually be a possibility to take 1,2 frames out of the animations to make them look a bit closer (=more choppy) looking to the original animations?

In your fonline config, like 3D fps and the second option there.

[Karpov]

The only problem with lowering the fps is that the character still moves slowly when walking/running, the rest of the animations look great at 13-15 fps.

Ok, ugly video, not worth watching in fullscreen. Here is what I have so far, two of them are new. Still in progress.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ-uyAHgf8s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ-uyAHgf8s</a>

That's all.

I'll have more time to spend in december, right now I have some exams coming up, so I'll be mostly offline until then. Bye

[Graf]

Nice work, as usually, Karpov I liked almost all of them, maybe except the last one, which looks a little bit weird, but I can't explain why. It definitely missing something, or maybe, as you said, it's just too fast. Everything else is just great. Hope to see more coming from you in December.

By the way, maybe it's time to start building a working prototype of the game in 3D? So far we only missing a few (6 or 7, to be precise) NPC armors and clothes, while everything else seems to be done already. What do you think, guys?