Caleb Longmire

Feasible, but you'd need to rely on inertial / dead blending which will limit quality. Inertial blends won't look great when blending from a cycle to a cycle with a duration longer than like .2s. I'm actually taking a look at doing it myself, but I know blends will be a challenge.

Wait, you were an animator on Kelly Slater Pro Surfer? That was a gem, I spent many childhood hours hitting windsurfers and jumping piers.

On a positive note, the animations themselves are great, performance is solid, and aside from the general jank I haven't noticed many bugs. Seems studios are more willing to keep things in the oven longer and that's a good thing.

And is it just me or is the super detailed environment impacting readability? Nothing stands out and my eyes don't know what to focus on. Obviously not exclusive to this AC but I'm noticing it more with how dense and detailed it is.

Yeah man I'm trying to get into it but I can't get past that stuff. And given that the 3C quality in Ghost of Tsushima was super consistent, and everything was more fluid and controllable, I cant help but compare.

Also I hate how you can't turn off all the glowing highlights! Takes away from anim.

Also I miss having more discreet control over the gaits. A lot of the loco intensity is gone now that you accelerate and decelerate slowly through a blendspace. Even with a sprint button, there's no cool "run to sprint" transition.

Ah well, rant over...just had to get that out of my system :D

And this overcomplicated sticky auto-traversal has been really ruining things for me since origins. I feel so disconnected with the characters actions, and things rarely trigger how or when I want them to. No one party's fault, I know how the sausage gets made...but still...

There have definitely been some improvements, but there's such an inconsistent level of quality across all the 3Cs. Sometimes things feel great, oftentimes its jank. Great example is the 180 start on the "grab enemy" loco set. Super cool and smooth when it plays, but barely plays.

Interesting, has not been my experience so far, but perhaps I'm too fixated on the things I wish were done better to appreciate the rest.

Ha same!

I want to say that the mantling in GASP can all be remade in 4.26 minus the MM transitions, but at this pace you wouldn't need them.

I have so many mixed feelings seeing our sample content used in videos like this.

I guess its inevitable...

They're doing well ;)

Indiana Jones & The Great Circle has pleasantly surprised me! Was hesitant about the first person but I think it works really well.

Love the brawling mechanics, been missing stuff like this in games. More punching & grappling, less shooting please!

We gotta combine this with the Game Anim Sample...

Used to. My crappy animations can be found in UE projects far and wide, not proud of them...But now I mainly handle the logic that plays animations and blends things together during gameplay...so your call!

Do technical designers in animation count? or animation technical designers, or animation systems designers, or whatever the heck I am...

Nice! Has a long way to go still.

I didn't even know there was an AnimNext plugin that went out. If so, definitely not. There's a lot of UX and workflow improvements that still need to happen.

Yes! One of the reasons for experimenting with a workflow that combined State machines, blend stack, MM, and choosers, was in order for us inform future tool development.

For a fairly detailed breakdown of the state machine setup, check out this thread (if you dare to go back)

x.com/clongmire42/...

Main updates include:

- Sprint & Crouch
- Expanded Traversal
- Networked Multiplayer
- New Gameplay Camera (in Beta)
- Performance improvements

And a personal favorite:

- A state machine setup that matches MM in quality but with more control and less than half the animations!

Game Animation Sample This project showcases fully functional animation systems that are commonly needed in games. It is built using current best practices and can be used for learning or to help you kickstart your own cre...

Do you like Gameplay Animation and want to learn more about how it works? Well we just released an update to our Game Animation Sample project for #UE5 .5!

Get it here - fab.com/s/46a85e1ef0c5

P.S. You may have to remove local content in the EGL library in order to get the 5.5 version.

If you're excited to move away from ALS (as we all should be), but you aren't comfortable with a data heavy fully motion matched setup, then I might have just the thing for you in our 5.5 sample update.

...though there are still some hacks, that's just what anim in UE requires for now.

100%. We ALL cant wait to start using it.

I love that interacting with things is much more than a button press, goes to show that common mechanics that are usually mundane can be made interesting...and if there are vehicles in the future, it'd be great to see some cool "start up" button sequences!

Not sure if that's ever explained in game....the fast travel vs grav jump mechanics and knowing which is which and when via the menus is all kinda clunky. You can fast travel between star systems if you aren't in your ship. But if you are in your ship, it makes you jump...which is slower...

I did. Its a little confusing, you can't fast travel during combat but you can grav-jump, which means you have to set your destination as a new star system, not a different planet. Then you have to make sure your grav drive has power so it can complete the jump.