edit:... OK I reread again and what I am taking from Valve's comments now is that: They animate their courier on the forward movement distance (so the feet aren't skating). Then they 'motion extract' (ie: delete) the forward movement of the root bone. So the forward movement is all code, just animated for better looking…
Yup, that's how in game animation works. Valves system assumes that you have a 30 frame cycle, and every 30 frames of animations (which is 1 second) they move the courier forward in space X amount. This alleviates the "skating" effect that you were talking about, however it's probably not ""actually"" doing genuine root…
The workshop courier page http://www.dota2.com/workshop/requirements/npcs mentions 'motion extraced' under the run animation info and says to see dev wiki on that subject. But the dev wiki doesn't list. Basically it's about the forward movement speed. How to animate the run cycle and use forward movement. Does anyone have…
wasn't trying to argue that... (was on phone too) EDIT:: OK, I have read through your courier thread and see that it is an import bug issue.... I had just noticed that the pony courier does use two anims for flying at least (didn't see a change in running). Flapping wings and gliding. At first I thought the glide was a…
Thnx, Good info. Ill basically use same rig, just deleting wing bones and use for backpack. I think the rare run anims do work.but... donkey seems to just have a wing flsp run and a glide which valve seems tp use akso for boost anims. I couldnt tell diff. Im in ofline mode so cant look at my custom courriers. Sad face. I…
Woot! First Courier in game. Not without issues of course. Don't know why but I tilted the root bone to angle him n flight, so his head is sticking in the ground atm (using flying run for run anim) I exported a few anims by froms from a file, but both are in one. Guess they need broken down before export. Have wicked…
So out of all the couriers I've done, I've never worried about that. They are basically saying that 30 FPS is the amount of time it should take your guy to do one cycle to match properly with the courier template. This might be information about how to trouble shoot if you are Digging deeper into the process. Maybe some…