She's striking from her right side three times in a row. The second strike should from left-to-right, to keep momentum. Alternatively, you could have her spin all the way around to allow her to do the second strike as a right-to-left swing, and then have the third be left-to-right. Either way, just wanted to point out the swordplay faux pas.Rough animation of Annie's ground chain
There were no inaccuracies in Mega Man. It was a perfectly crafted interactive biography of the greatest hero known to man.
I dunno, the way it is now looks more furious, right to left to right to left looks more like flailing the blade around whereas coming in from the same side several times shows she's going in for the finish; first hit chips, second hit deepens the wound, third hit finished them off. All it needs is some slow in, slow out for each slash and it'll look marvellous.
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It's a rough animation, it may get changed in the future.
The four navigators for the game! Molly, Brain Drain and Feng are found in respective stages, and will be added to your team. You will be able to switch around which main navigator you want during each stage, as they all have different functions:
Molly: Expert in evaluating stage layout
Brain Drain: Specializes in analyzing the bosses’ strengths and weaknesses
Feng: Excells in finding hidden areas or structural irregularities
Mrs Victoria: Teaches you how to play
If you want to try out for the voice roles, here are sample quotes.
Molly:"Annie, Annie, Look out for those sharp spikes! Hmmm? What do you ask? No you won’t explode. What made you think that?"
Brain Drain: “It appears that abomination has rather sporadic movement. She is also able to morph into your previous opponents, so prepared for anything.”
Feng: “To get that 1-up, all you gotta do is jump, then jump again. Sure it breaks the laws of physics, but so does most things you do.”
Mrs. Victoria: "Miss Annie, why don’t you practice your swordsmanship on that dummy over there?"
that seems like it would make it too easy for platforming.
Zero could do it, and personally I'm very familiar with it, so it just felt odd not being able to.
This actually does sound cool and introduces some really nice level design options, particularly for the later stages. It also opens some more obscure teachings from Mrs Victoria that extend beyond just the basic controls and into techniques like this one, making her more of a useful ally to pick than just something for new people.
I think it would be cool to limit how many double jumps you get while wall jumping, or just make it to where distance isnt really affected by the double jump.
That'd be unintuitive as heck, though.
Yeah, I'd actually like to do what Sano's suggesting (probably just one double jump whenever you leave the ground, use it before or after a wall jump, but only once until you land again), but I don't want to overcomplicate things for the player any more than I need to. I'll probably test it out anyway though, but if it feels too unnatural I'll go with no restriction on double jumps from wall jumps.
I really like these. The rough models for the combo have good motion and weight behind them. I have a small input on the second one, though. Throwing down the sword and THEN turning around is a motion full of affectation (kazarike, I think, don't quote me on that one, my sensei had a different word for it, slang I think). I know it's a seemingly insignificant detail, but putting away your sword is the last thing you do, no matter what. That's why, in all manner of anime and samurai fiction, the protagonist spins the blade around all stylish and shit (most often meant to be chiburi), and then you get the zoomed in shot of them clicking their sword back into its scabbard.Two new WIP animations come fresh from the oven
Annie's ground chain combo (Attack X3, the last slash is the launcher for air combos) and her possible Winpose
You put words to what seemed to look off about that animation to me.
And honestly, that's all most people would think: "Hmm, that seems a bit off, somehow." Such small things contribute to the way we perceive everything.
Be sure she is mashing this whenever she gets hit.
I just wish they'd say were to ideally post auditions so they can see and go over them. I posted one as well about a week or so ago and haven't heard a thing from them.
