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Just a random idea that I'm sure is unoriginal after all the talk about how "striking dummy practice doesn't reflect skills" became the center of attention. I always figured it was an "optimal situation" striking dummy, but for all the people who want a bigger challenge, I gave you: Striking Dummy 2.0.
along with the debuff "git gud" YP icon :P
http://puu.sh/iYAy8/289e6510bb.png
but seriously if you put three of em down this could be some pretty brutal training. I LIKE!
Love it. +1
Definitly hope they do this^^
I fully support this idea! And I love your little animation :] Sorry to derail though, but how did you come to make about the telegraphs and animate them? I've been wanting to learn it, but have no idea where to start or what it's even called. >_<
Not a problem! This was done entirely in After Effects. I considered Photoshop but since it was easier to work in 3D space within AE.
Three layers:
Top is the moving/scaling effect line.
Middle is the bright outline of the AOE.
Bottom is the inner glow.
The top either moves or scales depending on the AOE. For a circle, it scales from the center from 0% to 100% in one second intervals. For a line it moves from point A to point B in one second intervals.
The middle layer does absolutely nothing aside look pretty. It's a solid layer with its color keyed out so it looks transparent, and an stroke applied to give it the effect of being an outline.
The bottom layer is a solid layer with 25% opacity in red, and a glow attached to it to soften the edging.
All layers are created in the same composition, and in a new composition they are added in with 3D axis enabled and rotated appropriately to appear to be coming out of the striking dummy image.
Simple!
There is a slight problem though. The position update of character in the overworld is about 3 times slower than in instances (every 0.3 seconds vs 0.1 I believe) to avoid unnecessary lag.
Training this way with a Dummy placed in an house's front yard would end up being slightly harder than the real thing. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing though; in a way it'd be like using training weights.