New playerset's frames and animation

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Re: New playerset's frames and animation

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Well, the artists can do as many frames of animation and as many different attack animations into the playerset as they ultimately want to do equipment work for.

Anyway, someone update the wiki TODO to reflect ALL the stuff we want in there. For example it would now state there is not going to be a whip animation. Discuss and reach a consensus in this thread first, update wiki later. (In your own userspace you can and are indeed encouraged to do stuff without the bureaucracy.)

The playerset project should finally get the elevated state of importance amongst artists. I probably have to start to repeat myself to emphasis how much it is dragging us and how tedious redoing revisions and additions to already "completed" equipment stuff will be, if it is not finished swiftly.

At this point do not worry about compatibility, just do it properly and do it fast (before the end of the year would be very much preferred).

Please start with creating a complete placeholder spriteset, with stick figures for stuff not done yet. Could develop into a nice SVN/dev version gag. Also a very nice visual progress indicator.

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i can definantly see similarities in an axe chopping and whip slashing animation, if the axe chop is overhead. do we have anyone working on the axe/whip combo? i could if theres a need.
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Yet another fine example of why we should start to use our Mantis for graphical development. We have overgrown as an organization (read: a random mob) both our forums and our wiki as a tool for task tracking.

In Mantis (simplified and in principle) you could set a task for the playerset. After that set some blocking subtasks (whip animation, sword animation, sitting revision for females) for it (the main task would not be complete until all the subtasks are). You could even infinitely assign subtasks to subtasks (even have a task per animation phase or per frame, although that would probably already be excessive spamming).

People could assign themselves to tasks. They could also remove themselves. We could set deadlines for the files to send automatical email reminders. We could search for what has been the longest without an update. We could even search for tasks, which are not allocated to anyone. We would have an easy way to figure out who was working last on something we are interested in and an easy way to contact the person in question.

If we were to use mantis, you would not need to ask around for that and people would not have to remember by heart or search around the forums who was last working on something.

Starting to sound appealing instead of appalling to anyone yet? (Yes, I know it looks ugly as hell, but it is a functional development tool.)
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well i have a magic casting proposal and i can start working on the axe sprite animation as well so i guess i will try your manitis out.
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Rotonen wrote:Yet another fine example of why we should start to use our Mantis for graphical development. We have overgrown as an organization (read: a random mob) both our forums and our wiki as a tool for task tracking.
Eyes open, clicky clicky? :)

I admit the link color is not good at all. We should change it. I was looking for a reason to have a new signature too. :twisted:
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thanks a bunch
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Crush wrote:Please drop that second swing - it doesn't reflect the (new) game mechanics and means two unnecessary frames. Also note that a "chopping axe type motion" isn't that bad because the same animation is supposed to be used for axes.

First Crush you should not tell me which frames to drop when you did not look at the frames of the animation. (If you had you would of realized the first swing is 3 frames and second swing is 3 frames, I even said that in the body of my message.) And the point of the second swing is because it is how a natural sword swing works which is what you complained about on all the other swings. And I did set it up so the first 3 frames could be for an axe. I was hopping for constructive criticism on this that would help to point to what you want. But I have seen so very little of that in the forums of late. If I drop the second swing then its exactly what we have had shown in the past and it will not look right because it is and unnatural look for using a sword.
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More frames in there and it can be used for slow swings too (every other swing from the other side or if attack broken, just gracefully reset by cycling frames intelligently).
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Rotonen wrote:More frames in there and it can be used for slow swings too (every other swing from the other side or if attack broken, just gracefully reset by cycling frames intelligently).
thank you rotonen and if your creatively use a pause at the end of each swing you can slow it down too.

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I certainly did never complain about any lack of "return animation" in any of the animations which were proposed. I think it is completely superfluous.

Always having a second swing after the first will just look wrong in the game because the enemies will only be damaged once. And giving all swords a double attack just because you pixeled it that way would be a really stupid decision balance- and mechanic wise.
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Crush wrote: Regarding this animation: It didn't look that way with the "green line" sword, but with the real sword graphic in there I am really missing another animation phase during the swing.
Then what were you talking about here crush? Some times your critics come off as vague and easily misunderstood.
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I was talking about another phase DURING the swing, not AFTER the swing. I don't see how you can interprete this as me wanting a return animation.
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Crush wrote:I was talking about another phase DURING the swing, not AFTER the swing. I don't see how you can interprete this as me wanting a return animation.
Well my swing is just a rip from Modanung on the 3rd page of this thread which i thought was good but then got lost for other ideas. The second swing is what I thought was missing from the animation and it was to make the swing look more natural. I never said you wanted it. I makes it natural arm motion but if that is not what you wanted then why have we not gone forward with any of the other good ideas come through here?
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There were a couple of very promising animations in this thread I would have accepted gladly after some minor modifications (Those by Pauan were especially good). But unfortunately none of it got finished because the people who made them lost interest before starting the side- and back view.
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Crush wrote:There were a couple of very promising animations in this thread I would have accepted gladly after some minor modifications (Those by Pauan were especially good). But unfortunately none of it got finished because the people who made them lost interest before starting the side- and back view.
Then name them off so we can get some one else to "pickup the ball" and try to finish this.
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