Changing the Game Animation Industry as We Know It - Legacy Devlog #15
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2020
- Join me and my not working throat in this week's Bi-annual Animator Controller Rant
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EDIT: The animator has now been released:
ruclips.net/video/5aHhmRiVpZI/видео.html
There's a lot of comments about this, so I'll pin it here:
*Yes, I'm planning to put this Animator on the Asset Store (for free).*
Just need a little more time.
NOTE: I've picked this video's title as a joke. My ego is way too small for me to unironically state that I've changed an entire industry with something so insignificant. Usually, I'm an extraordinarily humble and handsome individual.
But this is an animator I’ve been looking for
The animator would actually be a great addition to the asset store. A lot of pixel art based games could probably use it. It's one of those things that fixes something that game developers often notice but nobody went through the effort to fix it. Awesome!
That's exciting! Nice job with it, looks great. I was going to say I'd love a tutorial, but picking it apart will work too :)
omg you actually fixed the reason I ditched unity, instant sub(well not instant cause I watched the entire video) xD
I’ve had trouble with this for years. If this is on the asset store I might actually have the motivation to make a game again
I ABSOLUTELY get why you're spending time on something "nobody" else might notice, and I'm glad to see it. It's sleek, and polished, and that level of care is encouraging from a developer.
Thank you! It means a lot :)
Oh we notice. Us players might not outright praise you but trust me, when others don't follow suit, we rage in our silent corners. Plus while some of us aren't aware of it subconsciously when we see other games don't do it, it looks off and sometimes attrocious for some reason. As a game dev im glad to see im not the only one suffering from perfectionist syndrome
Celeste is full of these little 'quality of life' improvements and it makes the game feel really smooth. These tiny changes can slowly add up and make the game feel really good.
5:00 "These two problems raise a serious question..."
Yes, it's "is there a single scenario in which the Unity Animator is ever actually useful?"
yes. most of the 3d ones.
@@MidnightSt Animancer was the most valueable asset I've ever bought. I highly recommend it, it was written to fix everything that's wrong with the default unity animator (mecanim) and it does it's job really well. Of course it's a tool and you have to learn how things are namend and how you setup things correctly such as events and clipTransitions - but once you figure this out, everything is possible and it works so damn well.
Yeah, I think every developer using key frame animation needs to be told to ditch the default animator. I haven't taken the plunge into making/downloading a custom animator, but I did follow and expand upon the Lost Relic Games animator "fix" tutorial and that pretty much saved my metroidvania! (I have coded a simple animator for game engine test project, but it's not good enough to replace Unity's animator)
My custom animator script still needs the unity animator's Play method to actually play the animation, but it avoids Unity's clunky graph and is fairly dynamic.
The crouch walk animation looks soooo good
Thanks! I really enjoyed making it. Although now I feel like the walk and run cycles need some upgrade 😅
Hmmm, I guess RUclips algorithm has chosen you, happy to find another Devlog to follow along :D
I don't know if I'm more happy or terrified because of that.
Anyway, welcome to the family!
@@aarthificial don't worry about it bro! Just be yourself...
*But now in front of thousands of people*
Same ^^
I'm happy RUclips does that, it's fun to see new small channels. Even if they have a bad upload schedule
As everyone already said, I really like the extra effort on the animation and I'm pretty sure that people are _actually_ going to notice it
Thanks! I'm glad you think so.
"You are probably wondering why I'm wasting time on things that nobody's gonna notice"
My ocd says different
My ocd appreciates that
@@aarthificial My ocd likes you.
@@prenomnom6122 My OCD is kicking in, cause only one of your used a comma in the end of the sentence, while beginning with the capital letter. Ahh!!
aarthificial: And to that I say-
Me: SAY WHAT!!?
Subscribe to find out!?
He says-
haven't you hea-
I randomly got this vid recommend to me
That's interesting
That’s kinda how RUclips works
LOL
same here ^_^
Me too and I'm very happy about it :)
The level of satisfaction that gave me those animations can't be described, I'm absolutely watching every one of your devlogs
Loved how you ended the video as well xD
Apparently this has been recomended to everybody. Your game is looking great so far and I'm really looking forward to it.
Good luck on your journey! :)
Also, really good editing on the devlogs, my guy.
Thanks!
That extra little touch of state propagation between standing and crouching is just such a subtle yet effective piece of visual polish for a 2D project. I say it was a worthy 'waste' of time.
Smooth voice, great intonation, each word chosen with purpose, great sense of humor, good video composition, smart coding, nice animations. Instant sub.
Thank you so much!
I tend to be really anxious about my accent and voice in general, so your words really mean a lot.
@@aarthificial what is your accent?
Polish
@@aarthificial Oh, now I see :) Great vids btw, I also like to develop games but never went into such depths, wouldn't even think about it. Now I think about how I need to pay more attention to details.
Seems as though this video is blowing up a little bit. I just discovered you thanks to the youtube algorithm. Just wanna say, after binging all your content thus far, I find your work pretty inspiring. I appreciate the effort you put into your work and I look forward to purchasing / playing your game!
Thank you! It means a lot.
Wow that's really good, I think much of the feeling with pixel art is on the details, even a single pixel can make a difference so worrying about the "things nobody notices" really takes it to the next level. Just got another subscriber ;)
Thanks a lot :)
As someone who’s tried to make a sprite-based game in Unity, I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that I noticed. It is everything I’ve ever wanted! Bravo!
RUclips recommended me this and after watching I promptly went back and watched all 14 devlogs before. Suffice to say I’m very happy with the algorithm currently!
This looks fantastic, but I really think you should reconsider having jumping in your game. It's just such a fundamental movement option that it's very likely to feel claustrophobic in a sense, or in some way uncomfortable if it isn't there.
What you could do to achieve this, since you mentioned you ran out of buttons is either:
A) Move Distort Gravity to "F", jump on Spacebar.
B) Make the action contextual, such as if you are grounded you jump and if you are in the air you distort gravity. Keep both on Space bar.
C) "W" could be jump when grounded.
You have a very great attention to detail, and frankly this gravity distortion feature is very beautiful in its simplicity. The art you've made, particularly for your character is amazing as well. I think it's really clever how you picked one leg to be like a robotic spring-leg, making the whole animation read really well from afar.
Keep at it, man!
Instantly subscribed. Don’t know what it is, but you have made a smart, informative, and funny video here. Also it is very gratifying to see someone fix a problem instead of bodging it over and over again.
For the first time in what feels like years, I saw someone correctly use "raises a question" instead of "begs" it. You just made my morning. 😂
This is one of the smoothest animation setups I've seen yet. Awesome job on setting up that little detail. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
@@aarthificial Not a problem. As a game designer/developer, I know how difficult it can be setting up animations to stop at different states. This is probably one of the most well setup designs I've seen in a while. Even in my own game, the character goes right back to their animation idle state.
"nobody else will notice"
We feel it, trust me, we feel it, we might not be able to describe what it is that your game is doing right, but we know it is doing something right
Gz on getting the algorithm to notice you! Great stuff too, sometimes rolling your own is overkill, but sometimes it's not only okay, it's required to get what you want and need.
Thanks!
I totally agree
You are a Genius bro - that Animator method is too sick - Thank the gaming gods they popped your channel on my feed!!!
Trust me... I notice the care.
And I love you for it, you mad lad, you.
The Animation controller is probably the number 1 feature that got me like "yo, why am I using Unity again to make a 2D game?"
Which exactly why I'm stuck getting slopes to work in the much different Game maker Studio 2, since it's community is more dead than the prince of persia franchise and Overwatch combined.
Woo... Odd reference aside. I dunno what to do here.
Every tutorial I could find would stop exactly at the heart of the problem that really keeps me from moving on, already setting me back weeks in dev time of what was supposed to be a half year project at max.
And I can't just cut slopes (ceiling slopes to be exact) out of the game since I really prefer the aesthetics and it's integral for the player and enemies to interact with the ceiling in my game as well...
Maybe I'm a lost cause and should just stick to making the artwork for other peoples games...
Thank you! I reall appreciate what you're saying.
Also, I'm really sorry to hear about your struggles. I wish I could help somehow but I know next to nothing about Game Maker
@@aarthificial Oh no worries. I am still contemplating about moving back to Unity after seeing how elegantly you solved one of my core problems.
Besides that, it seems like the community for the engine (Game Maker S 2) is absolutely dead.
Almost all videos are from 3 years ago, outdated and where probably badly executed, even at their respective time.
With nobody (and I mean, absolutely nobody, I tried everywhere.) to ask such simple things (as basic slope movement), it seems like I'm on my own in the wilderness with a wet match and a dull survival blade.
I have a little bit of experience with scriptable objects in Unity.
I would *love* to know a basic structure of how you integrated this. It seems like the objects themselves are not too difficult to set up, once I get to know how they are treated in code.
This game is gonna be a banger, mark my words.
I really enjoyed how well balanced your audio mix is for your video, background music isn't too loud, mic comes through nice and level.
I also really enjoyed your explanation for creating your own animation manager as well!
Thank you so much!
6:00 I think those little details really help with immersion and making the game look prettier~.
The proper leg being out in front, the smooth animations, taking the time to make sure the transition from walk to run is smooth, it looks nice~.
Looking awesome, can't wait for more videos in this series!! Good luck on your game!
I've discovered you this morning and I'm already in love!
Nice job mate
Im loving all these devlog youtubers. Nice work on the animation work as well! I haven't really thought about the extra frames that get cut off when you switch an animation, it's a good thing to jot down :)
Thanks!
Bruh this is the first video I've watched from you and I just had to sub. I love your kind of humor. I also love game dev videos. Perfect match.
The crouching-walking to just crouching transition is literally perfect, and you spending time on it is totally justified in my eyes. It looks really good!
I just got recommended this by RUclips and... Wow! I'm so glad I did. I've already went and watched all the other devlogs, the game is looking awesome! I shared your channel with some friends too ;) I really hope this works out well for you :)
Thanks you so much!
I'm really glad you like it!
damn I'm bingewatching your channel right now. I love your editing style and the ending was hilarious
Finally finished all of the dev logs after getting this recommended :D
This seems great, keep it up!
Thank you!
I just watched all of your devlogs and I'm absolutely fascinated with the game!
In episode 11 you demonstrated the tutorial and I get that it's all still in an early stage but I want to make a suggestion.
I heard that in filmmaking "it's always better to show than to tell" and I think the same is true for games. Letting the player learn the controls for themselves through level design could be much more satisfying. I'd love to hear your opinion on this!
Thanks!
Totally agree with the "show not tell".
The design of this tutorial was actually inspired by the first mario level (I know, oldest example in the book).
There's a pit that you can't cross. Everything around is grey except for the anchor which really stands out. It should naturally make you wanna hover your mouse over it. When you do so, the anchor's marker changes to indicate that it is, in fact, interactive. Next logical step would be to click on it which chages the marker furthermore. But this is when things get difficult. I don't really know how to persuade the player to also press space. None of my friends could figure this out on their own, that's why I decided to go with the architect.
The idea is that he should serve as more of a tip when you're stuck, rather than an obligatory tutorial. Perhaps I should change the prompt from "talk to" to "ask for help" to better convey that this interaction is optional.
This is however the only place where I "play it safe". There are three additional tutorial levels, each of them shows the player how they can utilize AST-1 in different ways. And it's done purely by showing. The architect is there only to provide some story/lore.
But as you said, it's still an early stage and I believe that reiteration is crucial in game design so stuff will probably change a lot.
I can't wait to realease the demo and see what people think about this. Maybe the whole control scheme is just unintuitive? Who knows.
Thanks again!
to see the player crouch with the correct foot forward is for some reason extremely satisfying.
Was randomly recommended so now I subscribe, really amazing stuff!!!
Thank you so much!
I love those details. These are the things I get hung up building too. I really like how it propagates to the other animations, nice work!
First video of yours i've seen, Great quality video earned yourself a sub this is exactly the sort of thing i love seeing keep up the great work!!
Thank you! It really means a lot.
Funny, I've implemented that in Clickteam Fusion years ago. It's so simple yet contributes to the overall feeling of polish and attention to detail. Oh, and I also randomly got this video recommended.
This has to be the cleanest art-style I have seen in any game EVER !
Thanks! I'm flattered :)
This was on my recommendations yesterday so I had to watch 1-14 and finally, I am watching 15.
Thank you! I really appreciate it.
Also, I've seen your comment about the gravity being linear. I'm not sure if you removed it or something because I can't find it anymore.
But it's a very interesting topic. There's actually quite a few reasons as to why I've made it that way. I think I'm gonna make a video about it at some point.
Anyway, thanks again!
Best answer ever to the question "Why do you waste your time on things nobody is gonna even notice". But seriously bro, I feel you, if something bothers you to the point you actually go and fix it, be certain it also bothers other people and these people will notice and will feel heard and understood for the first time
To fixate on the subtle things/behavior of a creation and finally get the code right, is such a treat. I do that, play around, then be like, "dang, it does the thing I like", and be in a good mood for the rest of the day.
I love you narration style. Your jokes are funny + you explain stuff in an informative and digestible way. Keep up the awesome work :D
RUclips doing something good, finally
That animation is so smooth, I don't need it, but I want it!
the attention to detail with these animations is insanely impressive
I love getting recommended small indie game dev videos, it’s so interesting to see people passionate about what they do
Awesome! Glad to have your channel and videos recommended to me!
Glad you like them!
PLEASE, show more code in the future! I really like when you explain how you did something instead of just showing it
also, your art is on point, nice
Thanks! I'll try to.
To that I say, inner peace. Being able to add the little touches that deliver a good interactive experience.
Great work on these animations. They look smooth and well done!
Thank you so much!
Just binged the entire series, great devlogs, subbed
Thank you!
This is really well done! Nice job :D
Incredible! I've been fighting with the animator for weeks and feeling really dumb for not being able to decide WHERE and HOW I will design the control code for it... And then... This video was recommended... New sub here!!
Got it recommended so I watched it and I love it! I think I'm gonna watch your other videos. Have my subscription, keep it up :D
Thanks!!
Hello you. This game is looking more and more beautiful and awesome. I absolutely love the details you put in it and I'm really excited to follow this developement.
Me too
Thank you! I'm really glad you like it.
Now I watched every of your videos. They are great. Simple, smooth and no unnecessary blabbering. I enjoyed them.
bon travail :)
I'm really happy you like them!
Thank you for all the nice comments ❤️
this is absolutely amazing. well done!
Thank you!
These videos are really motivating for others! Keep it up, your hard work is admirable :)
Thank you so much!
Comments like this are also extremely motivating.
I'll do my best!
Just watched and liked all of the devlogs from beginning to end and I love how the game is turning out, one thing that I would like to suggest is that, when selecting an anchor, Alice should point her arm with the AST-1 towards said anchor, that way the player gets more visual feedback!
Good luck on the game!
Thank you so much!
And also: yes! I so wanna do the pointing thing. It will require some additional animations and stuff that's why I'm postponing it for now. But it's definitely on my todo list.
The option of running and not activating the jumper was nice.
I think that you can use two states to activate the jumper: keep the 1-2 secs waiting for activating and the other is that if the player comes from air, must activate as well.
Thanks! It's an interesting idea.
I got quite some feedback from all of you. I'll try to address it in one of my next videos.
aarthificial: if add another button it would be too many buttons to comprehend
elite dangerous: hold my beer
me: ok yeah you have a point
Lovely game, just finished watching all of the devlog videos, looks great looking forward to see where it goes
Thank you so much!
"You are probably wondering why I'm wasting time on things that nobody's gonna notice"
Because for us developers making things work the way that we wanted give us a boost of motivation
I just found this channel, now I'm binging all the vids.
It's just a little pocket of goodness in our world. 🤗
Bwahahaha! That ending alone was worth it! xD 10/10 would watch again!
this looks sick. Super cool mechanics; I could see loads of puzzles out of these few mechanics
Thanks!!
"And to that I say-" *loki ad* "I am Loki"
absolutely perfect sync
This is the first video of yours I`ve ever seen and I already love your channel.
Thank you! I'm glad you like it
The crouch animation thingy is great, the player may not notice it but they'll definitely feel it, It's looking so smooth
Thanks!
Great job! Always wondered how you could manage to make a custom version of an Animator Controller, am about to bingewatch your videos :)
Thanks! I hope you like them.
oof, the ending is just brilliant. Useful even, I would say. Great work)
You reached 2k subs already, congrats again!
Thanks again!
RUclips recommended me this video and i'm happy about it, great devlog! :D
Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
The algorithm strikes again, but it's actually good content!! I just watched all the playlist untill I got here again, I'm going to continue to watch the devlog, but I just wanted to say how much I like the art style of the game and the videos in general it's all great!
At last I would like to throw an idea for the ability to jump if in the future you change idea on adding it, since the space bar is already used to change the gravity my idea would be to be able to jump only if detached by anchors, so that both jumping and messing with gravity would use the space bar.
I'm gonna apologize in advance for any mistake, English is not my first language and keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!
Oh man, those 2am ideas and 12pm realizations
I notice little things like this, and what you've done is cool.
youtube sent me, I like it, subscribed! I can't believe youtube is actually doing a good job, honestly.
This is exactly the kind of detail I LOVE to see in games.
The new animation system looks fantastic. It plays very nicely. I'd love to know how it works in depth. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
my gosh. that looks slick! who will NOT notice this perfection?
This game looks great in pixel art but hand-drawn would also be cool too! Edit: this is one of my favorite devlog series right now and I am hyped to see the finished game!
This is the first video from you that I watch because youtube recommended it to me, time to watch your other videos
Ahhh that cliff hanger at 6:09
Very nice, my guy. Great Dev Log.
Thank you so much!
I love the sassy cliff-hanger at the end haha. The devil is in the details. If you didn't do it, it would feel buggy, cheap, or unpolished. People would notice.
You just reached 1k subs, congrats!
Thank you!
Just finished binging your videos. Really great quality work it's fantastic.
I can see good potential for speed running with these game mechanics and I'm really excited to follow your project's progress.
I'm really interested to know what's your background in programming and how did you learn what you know about gamedev.
Thank you so much!
My background in programming is all over the place, but it's roughly something like this:
20XX - The Games Factory 2
2013 - Autodesk Maya (MEL)
2014 - Unity (C#)
2015 - Unreal (C++)
2016 - Android (Java)
2017 - Angular (JavaScript)
2018 - React (TypeScript)
For the past two years, I've been lucky enough to work as a junior programmer with some really experienced developers. They have taught me almost everything I know about proper programming (There's still a lot of things that I need to learn, though).
When it comes to "how did I learn game dev," this is an answer that I gave on Reddit some time ago:
"This is probably the least satisfying answer ever, but I have no idea. Most of the things I know come from youtube. But not from a specific channel or anything. There are many people out there who show their creative process and give out many useful tips and tricks. I love to watch them, try to replicate what they are doing, and experiment with stuff that I have learned to create something new."
I hope it's a satisfying answer. I usually don't think too much about how I got where I am, so it's difficult for me to talk about this.
@@aarthificial I completely get that, I might be going through the same process.
Thank you for the response.
That animator component script look amazing. I wouldn't have appreciated that a while ago but after learning about procedural animation I think that stuff really has an impact. The left vs right leg is so nice for convincing non twitch movement.
Thanks!
The way you've animated this character makes me want to make some funny music video with them dancing
great job! very cool!
Thank you!
Great job man! Though you are right in most people won’t care this kind of thing bothers me in some of my own things.
I love that attention to detail where the inside/outside leg is represented between states. I'm guessing you have a left facing and right facing frame and then horizontally flip it depending on which leg is on the outside.
Thank you!
You're close but the main character is missing her right leg meaning that I can't really flip these sprites (cuz then her left leg would be missing)
I just made four idle animations
@@aarthificial I'm not sure if you understood what I meant so I drew an explaination imgur.com/a/MSyn32N
Just wanted to propose a way to halve your sprite work. This way you only need a view of each side (left stride/idle, right stride/idle)
@@oblivion_2852 Thank you again for taking your time!
I do understand what you're suggesting. What I mean is that it only works for symmetric characters. Notice how in your example, red leg is on the left side of the character but after the flip it ends up on the right side.
If you were to put something in their right hand, after the flip they would hold it in their left.
That's because after flipping the sprite you end up with its mirrored version.
It's a really small detail tho
@@aarthificial Sorry but you still don't get what I mean... Hmmm how to explain it better
@@oblivion_2852 imgur.com/XqiN2Vj
I can answer that question: these small details are super satisfactory for the developer to achieve and gives us a reason to procrastinate.
"Oh, that thing in the background that took me a month to create, yeah, that's only in the game for 2 minutes..."
Oof
@@aarthificial Oof recognizes truth! And you know it!
But also: as developers we leverage the advances that come from the procrastination into the next game. Iterating on it and perfecting it and, in this case at least, giving our games a unique look.
What a great ending, made me laugh immediately
Wow I didn’t even know you could make your own animator. That’s very clever, nice job.
Also this game looks sick
Thanks Megamind! Really appreciate that.
@@aarthificial No problem, anything from your pal' Megamind :}
That custom animator thing was so cool ...