2.0 Movement inertia: Removed

[Rau]

If it means I won't have to mash C to get my character to stop faster to cast spells, I am okay with it.

I stand by this.

[Soukyuu]

If it means I won't have to mash C to get my character to stop faster to cast spells, I am okay with it.

What mashing C did was force a sync with the server. It has nothing to do with "character stopping faster" as this is only perceived to be slower with inertia animation present. That means that with the new servers, once you release a movement key, the server will recognize your character is not moving even though the inertia animation hasn't stopped playing yet

At least this is the logical thing to do. Whether "motion blending" animations include inertia or not is yet to be seen though. I'm just glad they confirmed not all animations are being included.

Btw, I think the original post by Rukkiri only meant the motion captured animations were removed in favor of artificial ones. This would mean inertia and leaning can still be included, but skill animations can become less realistic (e.g. jumping above the realistic limit).

IDK about costs etc, but personally, I would motion capture all movement animations and use synthetic ones for skills.

[Efrye]

[...] Whether "motion blending" animations include inertia or not is yet to be seen though. [...]

Exactly. "Animation blending" as a technical term simply means that there is a soft transition between two individual animations. For the movement in 1.0 they don't use simple blending, but separate transition animations. (standing > start running > running > stop running > standing)

Of course we don't know what Yoshi meant exactly, especially since we're only basing assumptions on a translation. But implementing animation blending alone definitely won't give us the smooth movement from 1.0.


Side note: There was actually no blending for battle animations in 1.0, which has been bothering me since release. I hope they'll fix that for ARR.