Okay not a lot of new animations that haven't been seen in this project before but wanted to note a few little animation workflow things that might be helpful for anyone. -Rotation of joints different in unreal than in maya -- unreal resamples animations on import. This can cause rotation differences compared to what you…
this animation that i thought would be difficult wasn't so bad. only took about an hour to add the reload. It's a tiny bit too fast I think, but I decompose the animation in unreal into pieces and just that reload bit can have time adjusted individually. The length of time it should last for is actually really important…
okay got most of the persians major animations a first pass. Feeling pretty iffy about the timing of the melee attack. It seems to go a little too fast, but if I slow it down like 10-20% then it feels sluggish to me. Perhaps I ought to keep same length of time, but hold the extreme poses for a couple more frames so then…
okay two more days to get the amazons controller finished. This is the most complicated one and serves as a template for the remaining ones. It is mostly the same as the prototype one, though under the hood its cleaner code, all nicely standardized so doing the other heroes' controllers will be pretty mindless work,…
nothing too exciting here but getting the basics blocked in for the spartans animation blueprint. i've found that it's not a lot of point to focus on anything other than basic timing for a first pass and then get it setup in the game and start refining it based on what you see there. Melee characters will toggle between…
Okay so original plan for trailer was to just keyframe everything and have "fake" gameplay for the gameplay sequences. Simply because this would be fastest. But for some of the scenes it is going to be too difficult, so I am working on getting a couple animation blueprints setup. Then I can get the gameplay back in action…
got the diegetic ammo display done. also note how bad the spartans animation is. Actually the posing I am fine with, but its way too fast. Hard to know if its right until its in the game. But timing ultimately depends on what works best for gameplay, so even though it looks awful right now and I want to change it, I'll…
As usual have a ton of things I wish to improve but going to stamp the good enough stamp on her outfit and textures for the current phase of the project. Next I update the bows geo and textures and then dig into rehashing animations. One major problem with animations in last iteration was that I did the bow draw, hold,…
Tested out maya live link with unreal and it's pretty good to be able to preview animations in real time. But feedback is a bit choppy so its really only good for blocking in. Little details don't read at all. Not sure if it really speeds things up or not, but definitely nice to get some immediate feedback. Character…
Here's a few unconventional minotaurs that I liked, Kai from kung fu panda Motaro minotaur version from Mortal Kombat A miniature from warhammer Berserk Anime - eh, similar to above, though I don't know if I should say the characters name since its major spoilers. I recommend watching the whole anime it might influence…