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Weapon Types (Part 3/3)

The last but not the least bunch of planned weapon animation sets, not weapons themselves, but the way characters hold and interact with the weapon.

Combat Staves

While it might seem ordinary, this category is extremely vers...

Weapon Types (Part 2/3)

Let's take a look at the second bunch of possible weapon animation sets. Versatility of them is key, the more generic they are, the more unique weapons we and modders can add later on. The characters will then be able to hold and operate any custom weapon model in the styles similar to ones shown in the sketches below:

Light ...

2018-06-11 05:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Weapon Types (Part 1/3)

Thanks everyone for the support for this exciting new month! 

With the most of the work for the locomotion animations done, it's time to start working on animating the weapons, tools and skills!

In this post I'll demonstrate 4 potential types of weapons, however, those are not the "weapons" you're going to use in ga...

Swimming and Climbing

Well, it wasn't that simple to implement as I said in previous posts, and it's not because of animations themselves, but the transitions between them. Adding 3-degrees of freedom to swimming animations, while making it look somewhat natural and organic wasn't easy.

2018-05-30 05:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Sliding

First of all, sorry for a delayed update - I got quite ill, had fever and splitting headaches, that stopped me from approaching the computer for a few days... Now I'm getting better and back doing work: making more animations and script that triggers them at correct conditions.

Thank you so much for supporting this month of de...

Stopping animations and crouching

I re-did stopping animations because the old system wasn't really thought through turns out... Challenge lays in that it is important that there is multiple stopping animations: we don't know when the player releases the movement input and when the character is supposed to stop.

At the moment of stopping the character can have...

More locomotion animations

Almost all ground locomotion animations are complete, from walk to run cycles, turns in place, stopping, jumping, falling.  

These build up the core of the most frequently seen animations by the players, that's why I took some ti...

Egg launchers

Animation work is going in full strength, and aside from regular locomotion, jumping and swimming, there are also special animations that   happen when creature is using abilities or shooting weapons. 

This is one of su...

Blender Rig (and scripts)

So as promised, I'm uploading the source Blender rig file for everyone to use! The main purpose why this would be eventually released for public usage is to support mod makers creating new animations, however it's not quite ready for that at this point. 

Think of it as early access behind the scenes look! If you're a blen...

Animations

Just a quick update: I'm working on animations now! So far it goes pretty  well thanks to our highly advanced rigging and scripts we made in Blender (without them animating would be a really big pain) so ultimately it was worth spending so much time preparing this rig.

2018-03-21 04:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Rigging pt2

First of all, thank you for all the support and love you're giving us <3 Quality work needs time to develop, especially when it comes to good animations, and to do good animations, first step is to make a good rig.

Blender is a nice tool.. but it lacks a support for certain features of professional rigs done in programs lik...

Research Facility

Our game doesn't have much content yet, and while animations for many bipedal races are coming soon with the finished rig, it's not yet late to think and refine the what gameplay is going to be like. 

TLDR version:

New playable level ideas
> Gives an exploration goal to the...

Rigging is (almost) done!

So the vast majority of figuring out how to do a proper rig in Blender is done! In case you're wondering why it took so long (2 months of every day dedicated work, in fact), well, there are no learning materials available for such advanced level rigs out there in the internet, simply nothing of use. 

To devel...

2017 Retrospective.

First of all, Happy New Year and thanks to everyone supporting the project for all of its time. You guys are amazing and I need to keep reminding you that :} 

Here is the retrospective of 2017 as promised, it took me a while to write this post, I know its 9th already and new year thing is kinda over by now, I just wanted ...

Merry Christmas!

I wish you all the murry and all the amazing, scaly and fluffy things! I'm not good at written holiday wishes, that's why I drew a picture instead! ^^

I want to say thank you everyone for the amazing support you're giving to the project of my dreams... our dreams, even! After all we're all making the game together :}

Pla...

December 2017 Support

Thank you so much for supporting the project this month! As per usual, I can only issue your rewards if you contact me with the things you want me to put into the game, otherwise you'll just be listed in a hall of fame once its complete :}

Going to the next development stage

2017-12-04 23:35:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Started streaming

Some news I wanted to quickly share: 

I have spent some time and set up everything I needed to start streaming, (overlays, transitions, animations), and done a few test-streams, so far it has been a pleasant experience! Turns out I love when people watch me work on something :} . I have yet to try talking over the mic whi...

New character, customization.

Thank you so much for the support this month! 

A lot of time consuming character modelling is done finally, various body variants for Hizathri species are rigged to a freshly created master-rig for all bipedal and upright standing creatures (more to come later and they will re-use the same animations) . What's finished ha...

Day of Dancing Darkness

Prelude

Shadows weren't a part of the original ecosystem that supported life and encouraged evolutionary progress like elementals always have done. They came to Khzandithri by one big mistake, a security breach of sorts... And they spread like a disease, corrupting the whole spheres one after another, turning living c...

Rigged Hizathri model download

The game is getting populated with the final models more and more, however there is always more work required, like right now, before releasing the build with the new Hizathri models they have to be fully rigged and animated first. 

While that's coming along nicely, I thought that since I recently switched to Blender (a f...

Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger!

If someone doesn't know where that phrase is from, it's from the opening theme of Attack on Titan... and you can tell why I chose it :}

As you know, it's our goal to portray creatures of our game as living beings, and not just a pile of moving polygons on screen - that is why I modelled muscles, organs...