2.0 Movement inertia: Removed

[SirOleas]

As many people have noted in the most recent gameplay footage, there seems to be a certain lack of animated inertia in character motion.
For example, in the current 1.0 build, stopping suddenly after having ran a short distance would result in a more aesthetically pleasing (subjective) animation to be played out, though this didn't appear to be the case in the demo.

Of course this being a pre-alpha build, there is a chance of it having not been implemented yet, due to its low priority. However, if it has been removed, I'd like to understand the reasoning behind the decision.

Perhaps there's a chance it hindered movement responsiveness too much?

I seem to recall they removed the animation and code for the inertia involved in the stopping motion etc. for 2.0 so that we could move quicker to react to certain attacks and battle styles. It's a good trade off if you ask me.

The only lacking animation that bothers me right now is when panning the camera while standing still and the character has no movement even though they are rotating on a single spot. I hope they add some foot movement at least...perhaps make the character's head turn in the direction you are panning the camera...Though this does not have to do with this thread so I will hush lol.

[Arcell]

And each of them made their own thread to QQ about it..so why should you?

This thread was originally made in August, just thought I'd mention that

[Junpei]

I would much rather my character stop when I let go of the button than fall an extra step or 2 forward when it could mean life or death.

[Tonkra]

This thread was originally made in August, just thought I'd mention that

people arent used to, that someone replies in an existing thread about the same topic instead of opening a new one every day

[Colino]

I liked it for the "realism" but let's be honest, gameplay comes first and it was only a matter of time before they took it out.

[Keisuna]

• Animations
  
  • 3 animations for taking damage, different animation depending on damage taken
    
  • Final motion blending animations are not implemented in the alpha. [this should calm down a lot of people, including myself]
    
  • Beta will introduce some, but not all animation blending.
    

Final blending hasn't been implemented. Please stop panicking.

[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.

[odintius]

I think a solid engine and UI will be top priority and from what I've read there doing alpha testing exactly how it should of been done in the first place they can add animation at any time during the life of this game.

[Montijin]

No one has mentioned pvp in this thread.

I'm not sure how that animation would work for pvp where you will be constantly running and stopping. If there is an animation lock on using abilities while your "stopping" from running that would be really annoying in pvp.