nasKo Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Hello everyone! Another ‘just getting on with things’ Thursdoid update. As we work on the last remaining tasks required before IWBUMS, we’ll do a little run through what everyone’s been up to this week! There is some really cool progress to show! Rotational Work Zac, as we’ve said over the past few Thursdoids, has been neck deep in implementing a rotational blending system. The amount of work this has been has been pretty immense, requiring refactoring huge amounts of the game’s code which deals with character angles and rotations. After much work, he’s finally started to get to the stage where the rotational blending system is falling into place. First a video: This is only the first step, but we’ll hopefully be seeing the rest of the system fall into place soon now the stage has been set. Next will be adding the turning on the spot step animations, which allow the lower body to turn once the upper body’s reached its limit of twisting the hip. In Zac’s own words: “We are getting closer to more organic character rotation behaviour. Previously, the character’s rotation was done by interpolating their rotation angle. This did not involve the character’s skeleton at all, making for some pretty robotic behaviour. The character’s feet just slide on the floor as they turn around. The character’s internals have have been undergoing some heavy re-modelling. The animation system is now getting involved. Rotation is now split into target and twist. The character can now specify whether they are turning or not, and how far they can twist their body and how fast. A good bit of math has also been written up for determining relative rotations, ranges, transforms, and interpolation. Some states are suitable for twisting, like when standing still and aiming a weapon, while others are not, like climbing over fences. The animation system incorporates these values into the skeleton. The twist is performed by rotations staggered across the character’s spine. ie. The twist starts just above the pelvis, the chest rotates some more, the shoulders, and then finally the neck. This makes for a more organic feel to the character’s rotation. More work is still to be done, but this is how it looks today. “ Elsewhere, Yuri has been fixing up some final bugs on the MP save database system, that will not only make vehicles more persistent in the cases of crashes and game quits, but should provide us with some additional security against inventory hackers on MP servers. After much internal discussion on what to give away to players in terms of profession costumes, Martin has been creating some additional branded t-shirts to go with various professions in the game. EP has been up to some very cool stuff! It’s all still in the early experimetal phase of poking at the car model system, so no guarantees if it’ll be in the IWBUMs but its way too cool not to show: That’s everything for this week! This week’s fashion show from our very own MartinG! A general list of stuff added to PZ, and vids of features being worked on, is kept here – so you don’t have to plough through endless dev blogs for info. The Centralized Block of Italicised Text would like to direct your attention to the PZ Wiki should you feel like editing or amending something, and the PZ Mailing List that can send blogs like this and patch notes direct to your mailbox. We also live on Twitter right here! Our Discord is open for chat and hijinks too! Trojan_Turps, crossed, ZonaryQuasar and 9 others 9 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Cox1911 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Wow! That car interior pic came out of the blue! Didn't thought that you guys would have a prototyp so soon. And I'm always amazed how much math is going into gamedev, even if it's "just" for rotation (don't take the just wrong). trombonaught 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake81 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Oh, man, I hope that car with doors that open means that, maybe one day in the far future, we'll be able to Open-Door-Slam Zeds like in State of Decay; I swear to go that was one of my favorite features on that game ZombiesLoveBrainiacs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okamikurainya Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 I'm hoping it means we'll be able to see the player character models sitting in the cars, maybe paving the way for open air transports like bikes, quads, golf carts, horses and boats. crossed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Wow some new occupational themed clothing looking nice. Vehicles designs are looking pretty cool with its animations system just hope for some pop up headlights to be a function on that car shown in the image. crossed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZonaryQuasar Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 You guys are the best! Keep it up the good work! Can't wait for the update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trombonaught Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 I am mad excited for that rotation. I never realized how much all these little animation details added to the game until seeing them in these updates! Okamikurainya and GoodOldLeon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josko Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) Can you remove that default mouse cursor already? Looks so ugly and out of place, why not have it be replaced into human hands or something just like they have in Diablo 2/3 Otherwise this looks great! Can't wait to try out IWBUMS. But that mouse cursor... Do have plans to change it to hands or something instead? I realize it isn't the highest priority ^^ Edited August 9, 2019 by josko_91 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmy101 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 5 hours ago, josko_91 said: Can you remove that default mouse cursor already? Looks so ugly and out of place, why not have it be replaced into human hands or something just like they have in Diablo 2/3 Otherwise this looks great! Can't wait to try out IWBUMS. But that mouse cursor... Do have plans to change it to hands or something instead? I realize it isn't the highest priority ^^ We'd like to, it used to be the case, but there are complications - it may be more feasible once lwjgl 3 is integrated, otherwise you'd have a cursor that was restricted by the FPS of the game, and that would be unresponsive and awful. Geras, Jason132, Okamikurainya and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayfarer Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Wow, that new rotation is looking great! Very excited to play with the new animations, when it's all nice and ready Have you thought about some degree, or some cases of rotation being head-only? Say the first x% of the rotation the character turns their head first, before their torso? crossed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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