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Awesome work! Wishlisted!

this is why most games make you climb walls of vines

3:04 WHAT IS HE HIDING OVER THERE??? 👁👄👁

New : if I delete the .txt, unity recreates it every time (with 480) that I open my project, so I had to leave my id in it, and I don't delete it anymore, what do you think?

Fantastic work! The climbing looks fantastic. I guess you'll have to make sure all your ladders are the same size increments and spacing now.

You'd think someone would have made this into a store asset by now. Also, it's good to remember that you don't have to make ladders realistic, unless your game is strictly striving for realism. Some games have characters jumping up several rungs at a time. Hell, you could have have them just zoom to the top via some mechanism. The function of the ladder (quick vertical movement with no horizontal) is more important than what it looks like. Work around problems and limitations be being creative with the execution.

This looks incredible! I love the stylized feel of the game, the character animations model, and the overall feel of the world. You are doing analyzing job! Thanks for sharing this with us. New sub and wishlist. Cheers!!

Oh yes ladders are hell! I am not a tech artist and animator but remember very well how this caused so many issues until release. Awesome work, keep it up, can not wait to see more <3

Bro, try multiplayer.

It just feels like you've fallen into the trap I've fallen into one too many times of overengineering something that shouldn't be a huge issue. Even if you were going for realism. Look into an IK solver or a procedural solution, they're not that complex to figure out and they're pretty modular so that once you've made one you can place them where ever, short or long ladders. You might even be able to reduce the number of animations you have and implement your normal climb and a fast climb. There's quite a few videos online about it, hope you all the best and please. Don't make mountains out of mole hills, you're making a game. Its supposed to be fun.

Inverse Kinematics might solve your issues without tweaking animations for each ladder. You can pose end affectors (hand/feet) to closest ladder step and interpolate position between them during some frames of animation.

You can mirror the top portion of your animation to get the animation you mention @3:40.

fastest way to make ladders is to be like half life 1 ladders

What about animation retargeting with the animation rigging package? I would imagine that would be a great tool to use for this.

I have been there, some months ago. I am still polishing them. Its hell

It looks really great and professional. Probably gonna throw together a solution using IK myself when i inevitably get to the same problem.

Warframe solved this ages ago, no fucking ladders or animations, you just jump off walls higher or sideways. Also aiming will pull you to the wall.

Underrated nightmares in game dev: -Doors -ladders -elevators

Why is Homer Simpson in your testing environment and why is he blurred out?

There has to be some middle ground between pure animations and procedural animating. In procedural, each limb could look for the nearest acceptable point in its path and snaps to that. Blending a procedural limb animation with a premade torso ladder climb animation could cover the climbing itself, but like you mentioned the extra transition states add a lot of complexity. Very impressive result and explanation.

Anything that has to do with animation is a real pain in the ass. Ladders are something I try my best to avoid having to make. What you've done here is great work. How long did you spend on this one problem so far?

Great video! Thanks for explaining your process - so interesting 😊 Your result ist excellent! But you could also adapt the Goat Simulator animations? 🤔😂

"One of the most time consuming parts of my character" proceeds to explain his over engineered solution. Classic game dev :>

Good work, it looks great! Just if you find time you can do it with IK - it can solve the `tire grabbing`, uneven ground, different ladders, it can look very natural, add flexibility and smooth animation transitions.

Excellent video! This does look like a nightmare but one that you woke up form. Comparing your system to AAA games was comical, they should reach out to you for the right way to do this

Nice work! Have you thought about procedural animation for climbing up and down? I think this could work very well for ladders :)

Another option is to make the ladder rungs handholds that the hands and feet can snap to, then use IK to dynamically animate the limbs. That same code can then be reused for other ledges as well.

Looking forward to your adaptation of the animation. It's really trippy to look at. Great video as always :D

I was thinking why have ladders at all? Why not have a trampoline, teleportation pad, or area that launches the player up? The goal is to get the player from point A to point B you can do it any way you want. Doesn't even need to make sense in the real world. You did make a really good smooth looking ladder climbing animation. Thank you for explaining your thought process. I could see a large studio contracting you to do their ladders. I would add a quick show of your game to remind people to wish list it at the start of the video. Most people do not watch until the end. In analytics you can see your video drop-off rate. Good luck!

Do we need to pay Steam fee or can we still use the 480 (Spacewar) default app id for testing our game locally ? Tbh I making a tiny project made for the fun, not sure if I want to pay a 100$ just to test if my steam api is working correctly...

Thank you a lot !

cool

over the shoulder cinematic mode

when running the arms dont look like they are doing natural motion kinda robotic but otherwise it looks awesome

0:39 I was pretty curious about this as there are now hall effect keyboards that allow for analog input based on how deeply you push down the key, is this a Unity limitation?

tutorial?

Been keeping up with you on Threads, really awesome to watch a Devlog! Keep em comin!

why the need of cloth colliders? why can't the body be the collider? is that a limit in unreal engine?

Hey, fellow game dev here! What you need is to look into game feel, particularly the polish aspect also known as "Juice". What your game lacks right now is camera effect and particles to make it feels better. Speedlines, sounds, effect on jump/landing/platform grabbing, FOV changes, etc. There is so much that you can do with the camera, the only limit is what you feel is right!

general feedback would be that gamers tend to prefer responsiveness of inputs --> movement, it's a bad idea to make movement delayed/augmented for the sake of playing realistic animations. I'm not saying you are doing this, but it's a good thing to keep in mind. Cool animations can still exist, they just have to not interfere with responsive and satisfying character controlling.

Is there a limit to how many people can actively connect?

I've always liked good clothing physics in games. Unfortunately, it is not very successful in many games today. But yours looks great.

the new character looks great

instead of changing the camera position it would be better to add another camera that would make the part of the object where the beam hit transparent.

Definitely a nice prototype you have going on there, and the camera collision also with tagging objects to be able to omit that logic is great work. Two minor critiques that I would have are that 1) the speed of the animation loop is too fast for your movespeed, and 2) the way the foot kicks back and up (bending the knee) is unrealistic, as the human body doesn't do that unless in a full sprint. Dialing it back a bit might look more natural. Anyhow that's just my 2cents as someone who works alongside animators at a AAA studio. I realize that it's a prototype so maybe these are things you are planning to adjust later on down the line. Character, Combat(or Gameloop Actions), and Camera are you first priority for sure 🙂

the climbing animation looks pretty good, but it's not perfect.

i am trying to figure out how to do a walk cycle in blender

if this guy is altering time and space, why doesn't he just solve world hunger

is vercidium experimenting with quantum entanglements because i swear i made that exact same post