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La-Quien Tales
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I had forgotten (derp) one the most important touches - the coat of arms (The silver triangle on his chest - meaning body, mind, heart). It's an integral part of the character's story, and I'm a character driven creator. Anyway, also did some animation touches along the way. Smoother cloth animation (ex. gradually fanning out when you start running, double frames during jumps/lands, etc.). Retouched some inconsistent shade lines and some of the trip/piping.
Thank you @danno - that is extremely important to me. Right now I'm still putting the unarmed animations together. Kind of backward, since if you're playing right you'll never see them, but doing the unarmed attacks first gives me a lot of the limb and body position bases I'll need for weapon attacks.
The H, H when unarmed is a mid instep, high spinning hook kick combo. The mid instep is finished. High spinning hook still has filler sprites for the moment, but it's almost done.
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O Ilusionista
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oh nicelly done!
Thanks @O Ilusionista! I've been studying CVS and SF3 Chun-Li for the cloth tails. I didn't like the idea of having sprites where only the cloth moves but is otherwise copy+paste, until i saw both CVS ans SF3 do that quite a bit, and it actually looks better. Also the delayed motion, where the cloth extends a couple of frames after the attack does. Counter intuitive at first to draw, but it does make sense from a physics standpoint and helps add some pop to the attack.
I wound up with 15 total sprites (11 unique physical poses + extra cloth motion). That's on par with SF3 instead of CVS like I wanted, in terms of sprites/effort per animation, but it's really the only way Valis's design doesn't end up looking spastic. Fortunately most enemies don't have nearly that many lose parts.
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Check it out, eye blinking! Valis now blinks his eyes at randomized intervals (every 200 - 500 centiseconds) regardless of animation pose. The blink duration itself is slightly randomzed too, just to make it a little more organic. As far as I know, there is not a single sprite based game in existence with this detail. I know it isn't much, but I think it adds a little something, and actually wasn't hard at all to implement. All the other characters + enemies will have it as well.
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O Ilusionista
Captain 100K
ohhh, that is cool!
Thanks @O Ilusionista. It actually just sort of hit me while I was working on something else. How freakishly simple it would be to implement, and really add an organic touch to the characters.
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Had just a couple of minutes and got a "casual" standing pose for idle in empty areas and part of spawning animation. Here's just a bit of fun with it. Looks like a few guys feel like steppin' up. Anyone want to place a bet?
In all seriousness, I probably will use these guys as filler enemies to test with once I get enough animations going to to try out combos and mechanics.
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In all seriousness, I probably will use these guys as filler enemies to test with once I get enough animations going to to try out combos and mechanics.
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Thank for the message. All is well, just super busy. This is the final semester of my MSICT before I can apply for the PHD program, and I also have a lot of work projects to get completed before fiscal year ends, so I haven't been as active lately. Still doing little bits as I get time or need a break.
No, I won't be implementing a weapon clash. There is a parry mechanic and a lot of other hidden fighting systems, but attacks meeting each other are pretty bog standard - the one with better hitbox priority wins (with a few exceptions - lots of attacks have specific properties that can affect the situation).
No dismemberment, and for the most part, enemies are not subject to disarming like players are. From a playing mechanic standpoint, there's just not enough return on investment for that. You might be able to disarm and dismember certain bosses, but not regular enemies.
I am planning on fatalities and finishers. They are based on the attack type and where on the body you land it. Same as I did in old demos from years ago. EX: Heavy slash near the head would cause decapitations, whereas lower down it might bisect. Light slashes might cause a blood spray, and so on.
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that is a fantastic attention to detail - and as far as i know eye blinks in 2d games are almost not existant
good work man!
since have read this thread so far only once, and since then read many others, i am now not sure on what kind of music stye you are looking for the game, but i found this genre that may help and could be enjoyable to listen to while you work on this game::
