So I’m working on hyperspace travel for StarDiver. I want to borrow concepts from a few places. I like the idea of hyperspace being a very mysterious place. I also like the idea of hyperspace being a difficult place to navigate and easy place to get lost in. In that regard, the Babylon5 view of […]
Forked Lightning! Zap Zap
I’ve spent the day getting the zapper code a lot more flexible and added some cool stuff to it. Changes: – forked lighting w/ ability to set max# recursive branches – single pulse w/ fadeout example(note I forgot the destination light): View the gif directly: https://giant.gfycat.com/CelebratedPhysicalFruitbat.gif. – stream of awesome while holding down fire (note the […]
Lipoc vs Krex Video
I worked on the Lipoc ship today so felt like grabbing a gif. It has the refined art and new propulsion system. View the gif directly: https://giant.gfycat.com/BasicBeautifulHadrosaurus.gif. gif is a big choppy, video here: Next thing I’ll be adding is the damage system so there are fires, venting air, people getting sucked out, damage decals […]
Veelow
Another animation has taken form as we get a little more familiar with the new animation tools. We may revisit this scene and bring the background to life a little, but we are pretty happy with the rigging system now. It is relatively efficient to get a character rigged and animated now. I look forward […]
Khaodra Video Clip
Per our previous posts, we’ve been working with new animation tools to bring our alines to life. Here is a mostly finished idle animation for the Khaodra race:
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Khaodra – Testing new Rigging
Per our previous post about refining our toolchain, I decided the Khaodra would be a great alien to test it out w. Big worm like creatures w 4 snake like tentacles will need a lot more than a humanoid biped rig/IK. Said and done, I couldn’t be happier w the new workflow. It isn’t perfect […]
Character Rigging Toolchain
We were using smoothmoves in unity for animation of our 2D aliens. It worked but the workflow was very slow. example of an idle animation using it: [img]http://i.minus.com/iQ2sMtVVR6CWu.gif[/img] The results were workable but it took a lot of art tweaking to cut up the characters just right to not notice the seams when animating. Also […]
Character Rigging Toolchain
We were using smoothmoves in unity for animation of our 2D aliens. It worked but the workflow was very slow. example of an idle animation using it: [img]http://i.minus.com/iQ2sMtVVR6CWu.gif[/img] The results were workable but it took a lot of art tweaking to cut up the characters just right to not notice the seams when animating. Also […]
GravityRide Resumes Project StarDiver
The good news is we are back at it! The bad news is it took getting through the last two years of distraction projects to get here. The team is as motivated as ever. New game assets are flowing, code is being written, music created, and aliens are dancing. No really they are dancing:
Alien Concept Art
The first batch of alien concept art is in! They are both capturing my imagination and adding a much needed boost of motivation. I can’t wait to get some of these refined and in-game… Let the fun alien dialog begin!
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