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[terri]

thanks for the feedback, heres an update


I'm ok with it being cartoonish, I'm trying to make the animation happen really quickly for fast paced gameplay

[Quarry]

It slows down really quickly at the end for that high swing speed

[Wilson Saunders]

The problem with animation for games is that the player expects their actions to occur the moment they provide input. Yet for good animation you need some windup time to give the action the feeling of weight. One of the ways of solving this is to have the button down action start the windup and the button up action start the attack animation.

[terri]

something like this would improve it I feel, but I gotta figure out how I would do this in blender

The problem with animation for games is that the player expects their actions to occur the moment they provide input. Yet for good animation you need some windup time to give the action the feeling of weight. One of the ways of solving this is to have the button down action start the windup and the button up action start the attack animation.

ah, that makes sense

[rivon]

Just make a few half-transparent quads (plane) in the shape of the curve.

[barbiturates]

technically you've got about 20 frames of startup to work with before anyone really cares

any competent individual realizes things cant happen instantly, you've got a lot of wiggle room there

[Gimym TILBERT]

where is the target, the eye should at least lock there, if you keep the feed "planted" it will have a better impact, it look likes one hand grips too high, it makes pivoting the wing awkward. imHo

[Mono]

The problem with animation for games is that the player expects their actions to occur the moment they provide input. Yet for good animation you need some windup time to give the action the feeling of weight. One of the ways of solving this is to have the button down action start the windup and the button up action start the attack animation.

Games like Dark Souls are built around learning your combat animations as well as the enemies. That is why it becomes so tactical.

[barbiturates]

that too, if you trust your players enough to determine "oh, this is a slow attack - it's not lag"

you can have much more fun with attacks

[Optrirominiluikus]

also

Gotta love that beard.

[terri]

thanks for all the feedback, I'll keep working on it, will try to look at some more reference as well

[omgnoseat]

Some great stuff here! I love the lowpoly stuff, it has actually gotten me to try some 3D stuff myself. This is my first ever experiment with anything 3d related, and I'm actually suprised how quick I was able to pick it up in just one evening (using blender).

I do have some questions though;

- Blender seems to be using something called BMesh, which supports ngons instead of triangles. As far as I know most game renderers use triangles. Is using bmesh a bad practise for models in gamedev?

- My model seems to have some strange shading in the editor, and also some strange shading (artifact?) in the render near the ear. I don't really know how to figure out what's causing this. Any idea's?

Any general pointers what I could improve on the mesh are welcome, very new to this stuff.

[xrg]

- Blender seems to be using something called BMesh, which supports ngons instead of triangles. As far as I know most game renderers use triangles. Is using bmesh a bad practise for models in gamedev?

About all the apps support ngons. Blender was actually really late to the party there. For games, your final mesh you'll mostly want quads, and triangles for trickier areas. You can use ngons while modeling, just be sure to clean them up by making them into quads or triangles for your final model.

So in your Pikachu, around the eye there, you have a few 5-sided faces. You can just the knife tool (k) to make a few cuts to turn them into triangles/quads and you'll be good to go.

- My model seems to have some strange shading in the editor, and also some strange shading (artifact?) in the render near the ear. I don't really know how to figure out what's causing this. Any idea's?

Most likely you have flipped normals (faces facing inside rather than outside). Tab into Edit mode, Select all (a), and recalculate normals (Ctrl+n).

[Dr.Electro]

finished this Soul Prison tower yesterday

[omgnoseat]

About all the apps support ngons. Blender was actually really late to the party there. For games, your final mesh you'll mostly want quads, and triangles for trickier areas. You can use ngons while modeling, just be sure to clean them up by making them into quads or triangles for your final model.

So in your Pikachu, around the eye there, you have a few 5-sided faces. You can just the knife tool (k) to make a few cuts to turn them into triangles/quads and you'll be good to go.

But that would mean that I would have to manually cut all ngons into triangles? That sounds like quite a hassle. But I did manage to fix up the eye there

Most likely you have flipped normals (faces facing inside rather than outside). Tab into Edit mode, Select all (a), and recalculate normals (Ctrl+n).

Haha I messed around with the ears for so long, I can see that I messed that up somewhere. ctrl+n did the trick, thanks!