Turning animations

[Ishtvan]

Also in the spirit of "making sure we understand everything before we finalize a new skeleton," we never set up turn animations on our AI. They're still spinning in place like they're standing on turntables or something. I assume we'll want to do this eventually, but we might want to try out simple placeholder turn_left and turn_right animations, to make sure that we have all the joints we need, etc. to do this correctly.

 

For D3 examples, see turn_left and turn_right on the player, char_sentry, monster_demon_sentry, monster_zombie_fat. It seems like not all the D3 monsters have turning anims, but I could be interpreting it wrong.

[Springheel]

Nothing needs to be done to the skeleton, we just need to make the animations (and the code to call them, I presume). The skeleton can basically move in any way a regular person can do.

 

I have a feeling that will have to be a post-1.0 task, however.

 

Have you noticed any turning animations for AI in motion, or only stationary ones? I wonder how the blending would work from, say, running, to turning.

[Ishtvan]

I think there is some SDK code that decides when to use those animations and when not to. When walking or running it probably doesn't do it, because they are already picking their feet up so it looks OK.

[Ishtvan]

Yeah, searching thru the SDK reveals a shitload of code for deciding how much to blend the turn, how far to progress thru the turn animation, etc, etc. Seems a shame not to take advantage of it with AI that spin like tops.

[squill]

yes this was something i wanted to suggest!!

The spinning is so '90's

[Ishtvan]

I think it only requires one more animation (assuming it's fairly easy to mirror right and left turns). Might want to spawn a D3 creature that has it and play its turn in the editor (monster_zombie_fat?) to see what's required.