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[fromsoysauce]

I'm working on an alt costume for Siiya in shorts. The technical reason is so I can make all of her animations without having to move animate her skirt. I'll go back in the end and put the skirt back in. But in the mean hey, now she has 2 costumes for the game! Win Win!

[johnar]

  Hi fromsoysauce.
 
 Animating clothing, especially dressess, is a time consuming, fiddly job.  (I had a couiple of attempts after your last post about her 'dress rig')
 I hope doing it this way will help make life a bit easier for you. Maybe 1 day Anim8or will somehow have some sort of clothing-magnet app or something.

 But, anyway, your characters are awesome, and Siiyas shorts suit her perfectly. 
 

[fromsoysauce]

Thanks.

Animating a skirt is a challenge, but not really that hard. My real issue is more: If the character in question has a skirt, then it I can't find out if the animation looks good or not until I have also animated the skirt, even if it's just a draft animation.

Also, now in 4 different pallets!

[ianross]

Very good work, love the U.V mapping, look forward to the animation.

[fromsoysauce]

I too look forward to the animation! And I'm already a step closer to that. I finished rigging her (apart from her fingers and face) and designed the rig to be very flexible, so I made this some what extreme pose to see how well the model holds together. I think It came out pretty good!

[cooldude234]

Once again it looks superb but I think the rigged feet are a little off or is it just me

[johnar]

 That right foot in the first image looks a bit odd from that angle, maybe the ankle looks a bit far from the heel..??
 But the rest looks really excellent. Well done, an excellent job on the skinning there soysauce. 

[fromsoysauce]

Thanks guys. I've noted and adjusted the lengths of the bones. I particularly am happy with the way her knees turned out looking.

Now I've been animating her so I've got some shots of her in much more classical poses. Her iconic stand pose is something I do not intend to change.

[cooldude234]

A bit unrelated but how far are you to finishing this game soy? like 50% done?

[fromsoysauce]

50% sounds about right. I am very excited for this game, it's probably going to be a rarity among Game Maker games, featuring 7000-tris smoothly animated characters running at a solid FPS.

[fromsoysauce]

Here is how Siiya looks like in-game:

[Blick Fang]

fromsoysauce, this is awesome work!!!             

[fromsoysauce]

Thanks!

Here's some game play footage!

[fromsoysauce]

This game is looking totally great! I've been able to add most of my favorite elements from Mario 64, Zelda OoT, AND Metroid Prime to make one sick chimera! I even went through the trouble to find out how to allow the players to pick up and toss pots (one of my favorite parts of Zelda)!



Though school is about to start up soon. I am planning on setting up an Indiegogo campaign for crowed funding for the completion of this project. It's been going on since 2009 (2007 if you count when I FIRST thought of the game). And most of those years were spent just learning what works and what doesn't, which lead me to redo the game, 4 times total. I think that the way the game is now though, is perfect in concept and design. But I've still got loads of resources to make (levels, enemies, and other NPCs both in design and animation). I hope that with indiegogo that I can get the funds I need to close up this project by sometime in the middle of next year.

[Blick Fang]

truly some amazing work Soy!  Is this playable online??