Arcturus' animations

[zergrush]

We would still need a floor sleeping stance though, as zombies are more in a lying position. A fetal-likw stance would the the most adequste for this purpose despite being hard to chain with the current get up anims.

[Springheel]

If you change the sleeping animation you'll need to change the get up animations as well. However, the zombie ones will be functional alternatives in the meantime.

[Arcturus]

Lay down animation:

If you leave the "sit_down" anim off the zombie, the code will work fine with just the "lay_down" anim.

What do you mean by off? If I don't put the sit_down and sit_up lines into zombie def then they will be still played, only taken from proguard's def. I put those lines in zombie def:

anim sleep_idle_lft models/md5/chars/undead/zombie/zombie_sleep.md5anim
anim sit_2_sleep_lft models/md5/chars/undead/zombie/zombie_idle_2_sleep.md5anim
anim sleep_2_sit_lft models/md5/chars/undead/zombie/zombie_sleep_2_idle.md5anim

When I set zombie to sleep then it plays: sit_down, zombie_idle_2_sleep, zombie_sleep. When it wakes up it plays sit_up.

[Springheel]

Looks great!

[Arcturus]

The animation is uploaded.

[Arcturus]

Idle animations for zombies are turned off. How do I create a custom set of idle animations for zombie? If just paste idle_something it doesn't work.

[Springheel]

There is a spawnarg called "idle_animations". You just put a list of the animations you want the AI to play in idle state after it, each separated by a comma. There is also idle_torso, for idles that are only played on the torso channel while walking.

[Arcturus]

ok, thanks.

[Arcturus]

Some idle animations:

[Bikerdude]

Niiiice, I like the forward and backward shuffling...dont know about the hand anim though, why would a zombie have the brain/will power to look at its hand in that fashion...?

[Springheel]

I agree with Biker...like the shuffling, but the hand idle looks far too 'self-aware' for a zombie (might look good on regular AI though!)

[Arcturus]

Ok, the other animations are now on the repository. The issue of laying down and standing up is still not resolved.

[Springheel]

The most robust solution would be a code-based one, I think. We could overload the sitting animations for zombies, but that wouldn't help if mappers wanted to use the same behaviour for regular AI.

[grayman]

The hand animation would be fine if he looked at it, then tried to eat it.

[rich_is_bored]

I was thinking the same thing.

[Bikerdude]

but that wouldn't help if mappers wanted to use the same behaviour for regular AI.

I would mlike to to be able to use that for drunks or homless Ai etc..

The hand animation would be fine if he looked at it, then tried to eat it.

I was thinking the same thing.

+3

[Springheel]

We probably shouldn't play zombies for laughs.

[pusianka]

This Zombie anim of walking used on people just begs for a hunchback or at least some cranky footman. Great job!

[Springheel]

I would mlike to to be able to use that for drunks or homless Ai etc..

 

Well, it seems like the problem is that regular humanoids play a "sleep" --> "rise to sitting" --> "stand from sitting" pattern to get up. When getting up from the floor we just want a "sleep" --> "stand up" sequence.

 

We could disable the "stand from sitting" animation on zombies to get around the problem, but that wouldn't work for regular AI, who still need that animation for actually sitting.

 

We probably need the code to distinguish between sleeping on a bed and sleeping on the floor.

[ungoliant]

At the risk of sounding needy, will haunts eventually get their own animations? They currently look very mundane, but i'm not sure zombie behavior fits the bill with those guys either.

[Springheel]

They will if an animator shows up who is interested in taking it on.

[Arcturus]

I checked today and standig up animation of zombies is broken. Knees are being streched for some reason. Something to do with inverse kinematics perhaps?

[Springheel]

Hmm, I hadn't noticed. IK can be turned off for that specific animation...I'll do that now. Update SVN and see if it makes a difference.

 

(I added the following line to sleep_2_stand, but you can replace it with whatever the last frame of the animation is)

 

{ frame 40 enableWalkIK }

[Arcturus]

It's good now.

[Arcturus]

I'd like to replace kneel down animation. Here's current animation:

 

 

Here's mine:

 

 

Right hand is stiff because there's only one kneel down animation. Same for NPCs carrying and not carrying a sword in their hand. I think there should be separate animations.