Today was spent animating and getting up to speed again on the code to get her moving around. I art swapped the new Kit animations into my last movement test bed then spent a little time tweaking the values to get it feeling right.
Since the movement behavior has inertia built in I started playing with animation speed values to help with the feeling of acceleration. So as she speeds up the walk anim goes up to full speed. It worked pretty well after I bumped up the values so that the animation speed didn’t start a zero but at 30% of full speed.
Once I did that I figured I had to add some starting and stopping animation transitions. Just to smooth things out a bit. So there a few frames as you go from the idle to the walk and then another batch when you stop. Stopping required 2 sets to better match the position of the legs. Remember that these are all frames no realtime animation where I could just do a blend. It took me ages to work out how to do it but not because it was complicated. In one instance I had extra frames exported because I wasn’t paying attention to a LUA script and had the wrong frame range exporting from the animation software. And then another time I forgot that the same animation software was playing back at 60fps whereas I’d exported the animation for 30. So when I was trying to work out which frame range to play a sequence on I was way off.
But yeah now I’ve got a nice walk happening. I’ll still mess with the acceleration values since I slowed it down to make sure I could see the transitions properly when I was debugging stuff. The color of the Frame counter under Kit is so I could debug to make sure it was playing the right anim for the stop animation.
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