Spell-casting animation..?

There better be MORE casting animations than just one for all spells. That'd be just boring.

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Originally Posted by DeadRiser

There better be MORE casting animations than just one for all spells. That'd be just boring.

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Hopefully they diverse it by race and gender, or still not a step up from XI's animations.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Hopefully they diverse it by race and gender, or still not a step up from XI's animations.

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I never played XI, but from watching videos, I LOVE the race specific animations for skills. If they would do that here, it'd make me feel like an actual race besides the cosmetics

Well, I do agree that the animation could be improved, just for the movement part, I do understand some people see magic as something that takes effort to do.. but others see if as something that requires high concentration to perform, and for that, I don;t see how you can concentrate while swinging around like that.

The old animation followed the idea of high concentration, over effort, hence why hand to the forehead type of animation, sure it is static and boring, but it isn't that illogical.

I would like if the new animation were something in between, the arms circling effect is really sweet, so why not circle your arms and then stand almost "static" with some minimal bouncing motion, rather than looking as if your knees are about to give out and you will fall on your ass?

But yes, some people do love it, other people find it funny and weird... Myself, I find it weird, but it is not something that would make me stop playing :P

On the other hand, there are some pretty cool animation effects on the old version, like how the archers shoot arrows and sometimes they position their bow horizontal... I kinda love that lol...

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Originally Posted by Warlock

Ask yourself this. How would Harry Potter do it?

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If I had to choose that awkward motions vs ANYTHING from Harry Potter, I'll take the awkward motion.

This is the normal speed.

again, it looks cool to me.
http://imageshack.us/a/img405/4262/temp32062271088.gif

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Originally Posted by Vogue

Well, I do agree that the animation could be improved, just for the movement part, I do understand some people see magic as something that takes effort to do.. but others see if as something that requires high concentration to perform, and for that, I don;t see how you can concentrate while swinging around like that.

The old animation followed the idea of high concentration, over effort, hence why hand to the forehead type of animation, sure it is static and boring, but it isn't that illogical.

I would like if the new animation were something in between, the arms circling effect is really sweet, so why not circle your arms and then stand almost "static" with some minimal bouncing motion, rather than looking as if your knees are about to give out and you will fall on your ass?

But yes, some people do love it, other people find it funny and weird... Myself, I find it weird, but it is not something that would make me stop playing :P

On the other hand, there are some pretty cool animation effects on the old version, like how the archers shoot arrows and sometimes they position their bow horizontal... I kinda love that lol...

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I agree on the archer animation. The Alpha animations for archer are waaay too flashy for what an archers movements are suppose to be like. I think of precision and graceful movements when it comes to archery. The new archer animations have way too much body movement similar to the casting movement.

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Originally Posted by Andrien

This is the normal speed.

again, it looks cool to me.

http://benderconverter.com/download/...0-62271088.gif

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Thanks lol, the other super charged gif was crazy.

I think it would look better if the blue orb stayed centered and exploded there. The spell stone effect is centered on character not staff, so the orb I think, should spawn on staff like it does now, but then destroy at center when he does the outward thrust.


Anyway, I dont really have a problem with the animation - though it may look awkward when you have 20 mages casting at once (special effect overload, 20 balls bouncing up and down).

The old one looks like your character is focusing on calling upon the etherial forces to release their cosmic power through your conduit.

This one is swatting at invisible bees.

All flash, no class.

Its good for offense spells but for protect its a bit OTT. I'd look like amma bout to bring down a ball of lightning and i throw out a little cure on my whm!

I'm ok with it.

It reminds me of the body motion you make after casting Blue Magic in XI, so maybe I'm just used to it.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

The old one looks like your character is focusing on calling upon the etherial forces to release their cosmic power through your conduit.

This one is swatting at invisible bees.

All flash, no class.

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Maybe for some, but for Roegadyn you are stiff as a board with what looks like a 5 frame animation, it's boring

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Originally Posted by Ricky

it's boring

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This has been the excuse for every gaudy addition to the game. I'd prefer not to sacrifice a reserved and artful aesthetic for a cheesy showy one.
1.0 didn't fail because of the visual direction.

They're going for flashy shit because that's what the kids enjoy nowadays, and it's an easy win over the majority. Again, this animation is simply COPYING what everyone else has been doing. Originality is being ripped off for a guaranteed win. Piece of shit new art direction keeps frustrating me over and over again.

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Originally Posted by Alerith

I'm ok with it.

It reminds me of the body motion you make after casting Blue Magic in XI, so maybe I'm just used to it.

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lol was gonna say that myself ^-^

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Originally Posted by Andrien

This is the normal speed.

again, it looks cool to me.
http://imageshack.us/a/img405/4262/temp32062271088.gif

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look's like a better improve version of the FFXI casting. ^-^

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Originally Posted by Yukagama

look's like a better improve version of the FFXI casting. ^-^

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In a way it does, but I think the effect is what's looking a bit "eh".

i didnt have a problem with casting....although hyur idle animation was about as retarded as you can get the constantly shrugging crap can get the axe.

I like the animation the gif OP uses makes it look bad cause it is x2 the normal speed.

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Originally Posted by Firon

I like the animation the gif OP uses makes it look bad cause it is x2 the normal speed.

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i would much rather see how many frames they bothered to use, in the creation of said animation.

i like the casting animation as it reminds me alot of the XI casting animation

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Originally Posted by Valmonte

i would much rather see how many frames they bothered to use, in the creation of said animation.

i like the casting animation as it reminds me alot of the XI casting animation

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It looks like 10 frames or less. so ~2.5 second animation 10 frames.. thats some horrible fps :P

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Originally Posted by Shougun

It looks like 10 frames or less. so ~2.5 second animation 10 frames.. thats some horrible fps :P

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As someone who plays a lot of Fighting games i'm pretty sure that animation for that was not 10 frames lol.