Puppet changes and animation!
Nacho’s puppet was in need of some polishing to better fit the style of the items, and also to change the back leg to be cuter and less skinny. I also took this chance to fix a bunch of tangents the original puppet had on it, as well as fix the alignment of some parts to make them easier to animate properly. Some pieces of the puppet just needed minor tweaks, while other parts had to be completely remade due to editing them being a bigger hassle than creating them fresh. I also rounded off most of the corners to give a softer and friendlier appearance.
Due to how much the puppet was changed, I had to remake the animations.
I also wanted to remake them because the originals felt very slow and laggy in game, making the character feel “sticky” to control.
I ended up going with a much more limited frame rate than before so I could have greater control over the animation and avoid having to tweak stuff so much. I’d animated things earlier by tweening them in Adobe Animate, but due to the software’s many issues and buggy parenting, I ended up having to manually edit many of the inbetween frames instead of just being able to focus on the keyframes. In this new version, I completely avoided doing inbetweens and focused on posing the keyframes. This kept the amount of frames I’d have to manage in the Unity import down, preventing me from having massive sprite sheets for each action. Before, I’d had a single sprite sheet with 30+ images for a single action. After, I was able to fit all actions onto the same spritesheet. This did come at a cost, the animation was a lot more limited, especially since I couldn’t transform the final pngs in Unity like I’d be able to in any image editing or animation program. It did have the benefit of making transitions between different animations less jarring than before. The most noteworthy improvement was how it allowed me to make the crawl animations not look creepy like they did before, as well as make the jump animation feel snappy. Remaking the animations also made it easy to fix the cutting errors that happened with the originals due to the sheer amount of them I had to work with.
The old dog was animated at 30 fps, the new dog is animated at 12 fps.
Old animations:Â https://digdogdev.tumblr.com/post/633708745112862720/character-art-update
New animations (note: these were rendered outside of Unity, so they feature some squash and stretch not present in the Unity versions)
Old spritesheet (note: this is just the walkcycle)
New spritesheet (note: this is all animations)
I also made sure to set up the animation controller in Unity, with conditions for each state change, in hopes of making it easier for Taliah to implement. I had to think for a bit and watch some tutorials to figure this out due to how many animations needed to be implemented.
Notes on the animation controller:Â
playerSpeed is an int for tracking if the player's moving. anything over .01 will change to a walk animation, any under .01 will change to an idle animationÂ
isJump is a bool that checks if the player is jumping or not. I currently have it set that the player can't jump while distracted since there's no distracted animation for jumping, please let me know if I should make oneÂ
isDistract is a bool that checks if the player is distracted by the food or notÂ
isCrouch is a bool that checks if the player is crouching or notÂ
cheer is a bool that checks if the dog is celebrating anything, this should only be true when the dog delivers something or finishes a levelÂ
isListen is a bool that checks if the dog is listening to people. this should only be true if the dog is receiving a quest
all transitions should NOT have exit timeÂ
under settings, transition duration should always be 0
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