#Suggestion for the character sprite animation/style
lethal solstice
old lintel
What technique is this using? Is this just a 3D model?
Cant really see well as I’m on my phone rn
Looks really appealing though
thorny scaffold
Is that a 12 sided sprite sheet?
lethal solstice
I think the character is separated in different sprites for each body part, then animated in a 3D environment. Idk exactly
I was watching him on twitch other day and he showed the spritesheet for a few seconds, it have A LOT of sprites
old lintel
Might as well be a 3D model at that point I would think, but it actually looks pretty good
thorny scaffold
right haha yeah the transitions are super smooth
lethal solstice
It looks smooth bc the sprites are animated in a 3D environment if I'm not wrong, then they have a good overlap. Just guessing
Like, have a 3D transparent skeleton, an actual 3D rig, and instead of a 3D model around it, its the 2D sprites
ah man, I really want to find the video of him making the animation again 🥲
thorny scaffold
yeah if you can find it def link it in here
Its basically like, well, ya know rag sprites are 8 sided. So they have angles for 45, 90, 135, 180, etc degrees. But his sprites look like they're double that so 22.5, 45, 67.5, 90
But if he's only doing that for one character its def understandable and looks/feels pretty good for an action type game
analog prawn
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tacit perch
they could have animated everything in 3d and did the pixel art on top of it
i believe
tacit perch
like what this guy did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqb6II3WMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbS8FWfQBA here an example
is not as smooth as that one
but i think they used something similar to this
runic venture
just throwing this in here. some ideas might be seen from the dev of Memora Wanderer as they took heavy inspirations from RO as well
https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/1676667519942250504
https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/1660730235879411718
civic jetty
Hey @elder dirge, they're talking 'bout you ! 😉
civic jetty
just throwing this in here. some ideas might be seen from the dev of Memora Wand...
Also, we only take heavy inspirations from 2.5D Oldschool RPGs. There's a lot of them ! 🙂
elder dirge
Oh hey there 😆
runic venture
Hey <@216518094233796608>, they're talking 'bout you ! 😉
Oh! Theyre here. Phenomenal work!
elder dirge
The first example in the thread is amazing, I looked up how they made it: "the character is animated with a 3D skeleton, but rendered via 2D billboards placed along the skeleton.".
civic jetty
Most people in the West didn't scratch the surface of this kind of games, NetEase is quite famous for having one of the most populated game of the kind.
They also recently made a mobile game based on a new iteration of the licence, but I think it had mixed reviews
river perch
It’s basically just Spine2D style riggining/sprite work. Which PaperZD in UE5 has support for.
But instead of just having left/right directional sprites like a lot of Spine2D style games do. They have the sprites respect far more directionals
river perch
Also while I’m in here, currently on the roadmap for 5.3 they are working on modernizing UE’s orthographic camera rendering style.
Which may be of interest since a lot of PS1 / early mmos used this style of camera projection
old lintel
Also while I’m in here, currently on the roadmap for 5.3 they are working on mod...
WHAT
It’s been so many years ortho camera has been not worked on
That’s really good news
And perfect timing
river perch
Yeah it’s honestly great news.Trying to spread it around more so our neglected Paper2D community can upvote it more 😂