Animation
For our hamster shooter, we are going to use skeletal animation. I started working on it some time during the holiday, not knowing how such a system works. I googled and youtubed the subject, and got the basics down. Jalb has a better handle of mathematics and programming in general, so helped a lot.Here's how the skeleton editor looks right now
And here's a video of a simple animationhttp://hamsters.jalb.me/previews/animator.webmJalb also made surface-textures onto terrain.
In unrelated news, I made another C64 remix:http://soundcloud.com/mordi-1/jeroen-wip
"Hamster shooter" sounds so wrong. Also, I can't really imagine hamsters using skeletal animation and not looking ridiculous - but I think looking ridiculous is the point here.
The hamsters are already looking ridiculous, Cesque :P
http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Mordi&cmd=comments&id=272177Yes, it will probably look ridiculous. Whether or not this is a good thing will become apparent pretty soon, I guess. In the current design, they have tiny legs, which could make it hard to make a proper walk/run animation.
Please make the hamsters cuter. You'll get a wider audience, and I won't be sad in my stomach when I look at screens. EVERYTHING else about the game is awesome. But the hamsters are ugly. :(
This engine looks better every time. Is this in GM?
It's XNA.
If I hadn't gotten help from my co-developer, mine would be shit as well. I couldn't even get the recursive rotation of the skeletal tree right. He also did the interpolation between keyframes. It's pretty cool - tried making a running animation, and it looked really nice for a 2-minute quick job. Still have to handle saving/loading, though. Also, I'm not sure how to handle situations where the skeleton doesn't match the amount of bones stores in the animation-file. Storing the skeleton itself in the animation file doesn't strike me as a good solution.i agree with acid. it works because people who like cute things like it, and people who like to destroy cute things would like it too ha
Yes, I agree as well. A more simplified style would make it better.