Single Frame Anim for Shouldered Bodies

[Ishtvan]

How hard would it be to create a single frame animation that puts a body into a pose like it's just been dropped from your shoulder?

 

When you drop a body from your shoulder, we need to insure that it doesn't clip into anything. I am working to improve the algorithm, but I suspect we'll need to place the body in a pose that doesn't take much much space (e.g., just lying flat with their arms at their sides). Basically the T-pose, but with their arms at their sides would work.

[Domarius]

Laying flat on the ground arms at sides, and you can rotate it 90 degrees in the code to do 2 checks, to see which way it fits best. One paralell with you, one perpendicular to you.

 

Could do a quick one using the old rig.

[Domarius]

Okay done, I uploaded a new single frame anim for the citywatch called "drop_body", it's laying down on its back with arms at sides.

[Springheel]

Shouldn't it be on it's stomach? You wouldn't carry a person with their back down.

[Tels]

Shouldn't it be on it's stomach? You wouldn't carry a person with their back down.

 

if their back is up when you carry them, dropping them head-first will flip them over so their back is on the floor.

[Springheel]

Yes, but this animation is meant to represent their starting position, is it not?

[Tels]

Yes, but this animation is meant to represent their starting position, is it not?

 

Good question. In that case I would have thought the "starting pose" would some sort of "bend U with the back arching up"?

[Ishtvan]

We can rotate it up face up and down in the code as needed (I was actually planning to toggle between face up and face down, so the player can quickly search the front or back by shouldering and dropping). The animation doesn't have to be a strict representation of their starting position, the main thing is that they're compact so they don't clip into stuff when they're made solid again. This should work fine.