Are we ever going to get them? Why not?
Wow had them 20 years ago. You can't do it?
What's stopping you?
I mean it just looks so silly when casting a ability in a pose,
frozen stiff legs, floating around like a chunk of butter in a teflon pan.
Billion dollar company doesn't want to pay their animators to rig the models?
Split body animations (lower+ upper)
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08-07-2022, 06:08 AMTheElvenQueenSplit body animations (lower+ upper)
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08-07-2022, 06:20 AMznushu
We use to have Motion Captured animation back in 2010 - 2012 but they were costly and so they just stop making them in favor for the animations you see today.
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08-07-2022, 06:45 AMEspon
I used to play a female draenei warrior and her common 1-hand attack animation was one where she spun around. If my legs were unable to move, she would only spin her upper body in a very painful way.
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08-07-2022, 06:52 AMRaikaiDon't we have that already with some instances? I think for the PVP main spammable action, Bards and Machinists can move the lower body while the upper body is casting the attack.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheElvenQueen
I'd love to have it more widespread - no more sliding animations for casters. -
08-07-2022, 06:58 AMTheElvenQueenQuote:
FFXIV (Modern) is surprisingly cheap in comparison to what 1.0 cost to develop allegedly. 1.0 cost 400,000,000 and the budget since has allegedly been 200,000,000~ for a total of 600,000,000~
They did it for at least the same money?Quote:
The game gw2 cost a rumored $200 million to develop
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08-07-2022, 07:05 AMDarthgummibearWoW didn't have split animations, it had models where half the rigging frequently glitched in one position.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheElvenQueen
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08-07-2022, 07:23 AMMilkieTeaNGL I actually like seeing myself slide while casting. Maybe it's just me but it looks kinda funky in a good way lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Raikai
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08-07-2022, 08:23 AMShori
1.0 had the quality animations. but somethingsomething PS3 resources....
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08-07-2022, 08:30 AMSannaR1 0 also had flower pots that had as many pixels as a player character and servers that were on fire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shori
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08-07-2022, 11:38 AMMisplaced_MarblesIn GW2, playing as an Asura ranger with a 2H sword has the auto-attack finisher being kind of a double pirouette. I'm sure you can imagine what it looks like when your legs are busy. Who needs a working spine anyway?Quote:
Originally Posted by Espon
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08-07-2022, 06:48 PMPacketdancerSomething something financial and temporal resources, honestly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shori
You can't easily shift motion-captured animation to different animation rigs and not have it get a little weird, after all. So can you imagine if every attack animation and all the movement animations and emotes were motion captured, and adding a new race that wasn't basically using another race's existing animation rig would mean you had to go do motion-capture for every single one of those? The amount of time and money involved would be dizzying.
And just taking, say, Roegadyn animations and going "we've got this 'hunched back' posture, we're going to just blend that in to every animation and call it a day" would work for some situations and not others. And considering how much fuss the playerbase has made over the lack of hats and hairs for Hrothgar PCs... can you imagine the fuss if like 80% of their animations looked "off" compared to the other races?
This is leaving aside the fact that, at least to my recollection, 1.x's animations caused some interesting situations in combat, because the engine seemed to prioritize animation fidelity over actually letting me put my character where I wanted to; I definitely remember watching it play a couple of steps after I stopped moving, letting the animation carry me into the edge of the AoE I was trying to stop short of. Because, y'know, can't just cut the animation short in a choppy fashion!
Don't get me wrong, I definitely miss the way 1.x characters felt like they had weight to them, compared to how we all seem to be a little floaty in the game nowadays. And the quality of the cutscenes was stunning in many areas. I'm just not going to look back at it through rose-colored glasses and pretend there weren't drawbacks to that scenario, too. -
08-07-2022, 07:11 PMScott
We had this in 2.0 with Bard. It looked really weird. Happy they ditched it
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08-07-2022, 09:58 PMMisplaced_Marbles
Hmm, i'd actually like to see what using dragon kick would look like with this system.
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08-08-2022, 06:01 PMrainichan
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01-25-2024, 04:13 AMTrashHeap64
Sorry to bump this thread but was this fixed? I was running Castrum the other night and noticed my Bard was no longer sliding. Feet were moving independent from the casting animations. Maybe they fixed this a while ago, but it was the first I've noticed it.
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01-25-2024, 05:13 AMLioJenIncorrect.Quote:
Originally Posted by SannaR