Animating Characters w/ Code instead of Animation Frames/Atlas

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Animating Characters w/ Code instead of Animation Frames/Atlas

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Started 2 years ago by friken
Latest reply from robodude666

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skeletal animation

friken
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I've been working more with an articulated 2d animation system... poor man's bone system of sorts. Here is the original thread (http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/1082), but wanted to make a new topic as much of the other was the issue(s) to get to this point.

I've posted a short video to show the animation system I have so far:

states:
- idle
- walking
- bored
- dancing

todo next:
- jumping
- interaction

here is the video (keep in mind the project is 10% done at best :)

http://cid-91b025a901b3f5cb.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/AnimationTest.mov

Posted 2 years ago #
Joao Caxaria
Member

Uau :) impressive work!

How hard is it to create new animations, now that you gave your 'bone system'?

Great work!

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
Member

Thanks for the kind words. It isn't that hard to add animations but the testing/tweaking is very tedious. Seems I build/run/stop/tweak/build/run/etc a million times to get the timing/feel right per animation. Though without an artist, I prefer that over making a ton of sprite frames in photoshop. For those with an artist to abuse, I say stick with the artist :)

Posted 2 years ago #
jonathan0382
Member

The animations you have look great so far. Cool style! And funky dancing... reminds me of disco vietnam... disco balls *tear in eye*

Keep it up!

Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

haha, loving the dance. Looks like your systems coming along nicely!

If you've got to do lots of other diff animations, perhaps its worth creating a mini editor, so you can tweak the moves, without having to build, test, stop, tweak... over and over. Only worth it if you've got a fair few more to do though.

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

love the bored and dance. Looks good!

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
Member

Thanks for the feedback. I've been playing with transitions and particles, I couldn't help making the dance party a little more fun:

I'm sure some people are wondering what dancing and party torches have to do with the intended gameplay? Great question... and the answer is.... absolutely nothing. I guess I should move onto programming gameplay now :)

Posted 2 years ago #
Joao Caxaria
Member

Eheh :D games are supposed to be fun, not supposed to make sense ;)

Posted 2 years ago #
zombie
Member

Looks really cool. How do you store your animation sequences?

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
Member

zombie,

right now I have the animation sequences stored in code. If I had a ton to make I'd write a util for it and a fileformat of some sort to load/save them. I may do that if I use this technique for multiple projects.

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
Member

Trying to tweak wall/floors and the look for when you get to the top of the tower. Opinions?

Posted 2 years ago #
jsttesting
Member

That is incredible! Are there any sites/tips/code pieces that you could share to make such an animation? Great walking animation!

Posted 1 year ago #
charlie_fulton
Member

@friken this looks amazing. I just started my journey of researching ragdoll physics and skeletal animation systems, they are fascinating subjects.

Posted 1 year ago #
robodude666
Member

Lookin' great!

Gameplay can come after firework torches and disco dance moves ;).

Posted 1 year ago #

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