Yudou

Pt2/2 : Solutiuon #pixelart #animation

air combo string route A #pixelart #animation

@ao_k_oto mm~ no prob. Always glad to be of help

@Yudou this is super informational, thank you for going out of your way to record and write this all for me! it means a lot and is going to be helpful for me in the future im sure

just cancel out of anything. This will eventually cost a resource cuz that bit at the end is a smidge ridiculous #pixelart #gamedev

@TheMonstreKing It's actually not as rare as you might think. In my own experience, I've come across this practice quite often

@Yudou Thank you for your answer! I was surprised seeing it as it's pretty rare to have something like that

I use the animation track in Godot to control the size, position, and active frames for the hitbox on a frame by frame basis. Most of the time it's set to a default disabled state but on the active frames of an attack I specifically enable it for those particlular frames. This also allows me to set properties or call methods such as moving her forward in line with her animation, spawning her blade smear or other effects, setting damage properties, etc it's a bit more work, but it gives me fine grain control over exactly when and what things happen

@Yudou sick work!! if you don't mind, how are you doing your hitboxes? did you manually create each area per frame of the animation/how are you swapping between them to sync them up? its something I've struggled to create a smooth workflow for so any tips are appreciated!!

It's an efficient shape for collision calculation. The rounded corners line up better with the body as with a box you have edge cases where the corners of the box don't line up with how we perceived what *should* collide with things. (The tip of Nel's foot shouldn't count for collision detection because based on her animation, that corner could just be empty a lot of the time). Its also for smooth movement as it allows the character to "stepup" on short ledges easily, and prevents getting snagged on corners, edges, uneven terrain.

@Yudou i was curious, why a rounded-rectangle hurtbox?

@shadeprotocolGM That's so rad

nobody asked for the World Cut but we're making it anyway!

mockup vs execution #pixelart #gamedev

@shadeprotocolGM @Alessan52989229 Tambourines!

@Alessan52989229 You caught me there xD We're conflicted on what instrument to give the Chakram! We have some ideas but we're just not sure yet! It needs to make sense with the Chakram itself as a weapon, but also work musically with the soundtrack. Clarinet is one I haven't considered though!

Some early prototyping of multi-Instrument combat in SHADE Protocol! In this showcase: * Piano Shield * Chakram * Guitar Axe Simple inputs, easy to learn, but we have many attack cancel windows for high skill cap players to go all out! #pixelart | #ドット絵 | #indiegames

Flare up #pixelart #gamedev

@VioletLeVile Soooooo gooooood ahhhhh

My silly Mohun oc with a silly idea. AT Arkvield was pretty fun! Helped me out of an art block rut even.

@TuxedoPato @_EuClaire The feeling of weight and momentum in this is done so well. full neuron activation

Had a week off last week so I made a melee attack set Left click attacks move forward Right click attacks move backward Character by @_EuClaire! Thanks for the model!

same air combo, but now in godot #pixelart #gamedev

#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame Freerunning traversal

Smooth like butter 👀 #pixelart #ドット絵 #indiegame #metroidvania

Aegis #pixelart

I've recently been watching Sanderson's lectures on fantasy writing and this clip from (52:00 - 54:00 )[youtu.be/3Y9p53C1lP4?t=…] hits the nail on the head on why I've always kinda shyed away from giving Nelianne the ability to double jump. I consider double jumps to be one of the greatest video game mechanics of all time. It's so elegant in its simplicity, and it provides the player with a way to get more height, get more distance, enable tricky navigation, act as a way to avoid attacks, add timing leniency, etc etc. Nel has the tools to effectively accomplish everything a double jump can do. It's not like I don't want the player to have air mobility/options. But by adding complications, she can't double jump without being able to bounce off of something, she needs a target to reel herself upwards, she can change her midair momentum immediately, but it costs a resource, etc, etc. Spreading out the benefits of what a double jump provides across her whole toolkit "It's so much more interesting to write than just 'a character can fly'. because he's having to make certain decisions and apply certain skills to make use of his bad flight. And because of that the reader can anticipate what it can do and what its limitations are, it becomes way more interesting to read becasue of that" and in that same way, I want to withold the ability so that the player can feel that cleverness, that quick on-the-fly thinking in combat to be able to effectively access powerful air mobility that the character would feel. Of course this is just musings and none of this matters if I can't make her actually fun to control. It's very possible I walk back on this decision because having a double jump is just feels *that* good to have. It's a near ubiquitous ability for a reason.

@blearthrew character animations are all hand drawn and animated

@Yudou that is smooth as fuuuuck did you animate all that manually or is there some 3d model trickery occuring

bounce bounce #gamedev