Arcturus' animations

[Arcturus]

Here's the closeup:

 

[Bikerdude]

Mucher more realistic grip pattern, the old one was ok but only intil it was improved which you have done ;-)

[Springheel]

I think it's just that the index finger is only loosely bent in the new one, rather than gripping fully like the second finger bones. The angles look better though.

[SeriousToni]

Do they swing more with the torch arm? I really like it ^^

[Arcturus]

Thanks, perhaps more in some direction, not necessarily in all. I rotated index finger some more and uploaded animation.

 

[Arcturus]

Current walk_lantern:

 

 

New:

 

[Springheel]

Looks good!

[Arcturus]

Uploaded.

[Springheel]

Are you thinking you might want to tackle some zombie animations at some point?

[Arcturus]

Ok, I'll remake walk_alerted animation and then try doing zombie.

[Sotha]

Very nice!

 

Hey as an offtopic problem...

Could it be possible to have the AI, the sword & other attached stuff shadow switched off automatically when the AI carries a lantern, torch or similar light source? In the last video you can clearly see the shadow of the weapon the AI carries and it looks bad, spinning and tumbling, especially for the archer.

[Tels]

Very nice!

 

Hey as an offtopic problem...

Could it be possible to have the AI, the sword & other attached stuff shadow switched off automatically when the AI carries a lantern, torch or similar light source? In the last video you can clearly see the shadow of the weapon the AI carries and it looks bad, spinning and tumbling, especially for the archer.

 

Is doable, as we do the same for torches and their "torch holder". If someone makes a bug tracker entry

[Sotha]

Is doable, as we do the same for torches and their "torch holder". If someone makes a bug tracker entry

 

Done!

http://bugs.angua.at/view.php?id=3284

[Springheel]

Ok, I'll remake walk_alerted animation and then try doing zombie.

 

I made a few different walk_alerted animations for variety. I think there are two sword ones (one with the tip down, one with it up) and one or two hammer ones (with more of a sense of weight). There might be a special one for archers too, I can't recall offhand.

[Arcturus]

Ok, walk_alerted.md5anim first.

 

Current:

 

 

New:

 

[Baddcog]

Would be cool to have an alternate lantern walk anim also where they hold it up and out a bit. Maybe just for a few steps? Like they are scanning ahead a little.

[Springheel]

Looks fine to me.

[SeriousToni]

The changes are so little but so cool

[Arcturus]

Uploaded.

Would be cool to have an alternate lantern walk anim also where they hold it up and out a bit. Maybe just for a few steps? Like they are scanning ahead a little.

Some of the idle animations don't match the lantern walk. We could use special idle animations instead for AI with lanterns.

[Springheel]

I think I made a couple idle animations with the arm hanging down but I can't remember. It is easy to swap in special idle animations for lantern-carriers.

[Arcturus]

walk_alert2

 

current:

 

 

new:

 

[Springheel]

Nice!

[Arcturus]

uploaded

[SeriousToni]

Now we only need an alert3 animation, where the guard holds his sword and lays it over his shoulder relaxed, like I do it when coming from the field with my rake!

[Arcturus]

There are two walk cycles for zombies taken from Doom. Interesting is that there are more than one cycle in one animation, that is zombie takes three or five steps for each leg in one animation. That makes animation more organic. I'm going to use that possibility. The animations were slowed down for TDM to 80% in the def file. I'm going to make new animations already slower by that factor. Run is the same animation only sped up to 120%. Separate animation for run will be needed.