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cybereality

Well I was talking more for first person, but third person can be janky ass well. That video looks alright for Godot, but still not great considering how long ago Mario 64 came out we still don't have a great standard control scheme for ladders. Also, notice how they don't show going down the ladder. This is the harder part, going up is generally okay.

Audiobellum

cybereality Yeah. I assume that it would be easier in first person as you don't have to worry about the character animation as much or at least no one would care( especially if the game was retro). They're even video tutorials for first person ladder climbing in Godot and I suspect that they're easy to follow( because I haven't followed them : 😆 ). It's seems only incredibly hard when it comes to third person and I've been thinking about it lately since I want my game to have an optional third person mode.
The way in which the climbing works in that video seems overly complicated to me and it was poorly explained by the person who made it( in the comment section of the video).
Wow, there really is no standard control scheme for ladders yet? Darn. How did they do it in older games like Zelda Ocarina Of Time? I probably need to get this idea out of my head, or my might not get anything done.

cybereality

Well Assassin's Creed probably did it best. In there you would hold down the "parkour" button and it would mostly just auto-select the best scripted animation to use. So less manually control, but it was smooth and felt good. They made heavy use of inverse kinematics and procedural animation blending. This is possible in Godot, but will require a lot of custom work, potentially in C++.

cybereality

I did a tarot reading for my new game idea. The cards said I would be motivated by creative energy, that I would have to explore new ideas, and that I would find happiness and success. Pretty much the best thing I could hope for.

Nerdzmasterz

Just set up a Youtube channel and thinking of posting tuts on Godot on it. Think anyone would be interested?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0Rcj9Kn81VdjX870h9Dng

Audiobellum

Nerdzmasterz I subscribed as well.

cybereality

Oh cool, I subscribed.

Nerdzmasterz

THNX. I was thinking of redoing the tut I posted here on the forums in a YT playlist. Godot is under the MIT license, but that shouldn't be an issue.
For those who don't remember or didn't know:

Audiobellum

I don't want to code a full parkour system in my game but, I do want to be able to code a character that can climb up landders in third person without looking too awkward. They've got to be a simple way to do. My biggest concern would be the animation( ensuring that the character's hands and feet look like they're making contact with the ladder probably while interacting with it.) I played a little bit of Zelda Ocarina Of Time and I think I want something similiar to that. I think there was a good tutorial on Youtube on how to make the third character climb the ladder in Godot but, it's in 2d. I'll still link the video for reference but, I'm going to still try to follow it anyway in hopes I can take something away from it:

Edit: Okay, I looked into the video for about 1 minute and 12 seconds and I'm quite disappointed at the final product.

Edit again: I'm still going to what the whole thing to see if there might be something helpful to take away from it.

Edit once more: Here is some gameplay footage of Zelda Ocarina Of Time from the N64; it's the best one I could find. Anyway, I'm off to following the tutorial.

cybereality

Well, the easiest thing is to make sure all the ladders have the same size/spacing. Do the animation in Blender with the ladder in there (for reference) so it matches exactly. Then in game when the player is close enough to the lader, simply snap to the bottom position in the center of the ladder and start the animation. If you have analog control, then the speed of the animation would need to be synced with the analog up/down movement, and then the player will perfectly grab each rung on the ladder. This is how Zelda and older games worked (since they couldn't do IK in real time back then).

some_lame_kid

cybereality In Luigi's Mansion they make you press the A button to climb on. Ground breaking stuff. It looks as natural as you can get with a 2001 Luigi. Spooky season's coming, by the way, you should check it out. I know there's newer ones but 2001 was a better time for those kind of "spooks". The freaky way they animate luigi walking in the dark is a good example.

Pixophir

I am living in a bounding box.

As I grow older, I will probably switch to a bounding sphere. This doesn't just leave more room, it is also easier to avoid collisions when there are many other spheres or boxes.

Personal to-do list, will be extended :-)

some_lame_kid

I just bought a $10 LED backlight for animating. The manual that came with it isn't just broken english, they forgot letters and every 3 words has at least one typo. The sample image they use for explaining how to trace a drawing is the first result when you image search "little anime girl". The worst part of all of this, is the capacitive touch "button". There's nothing wrong with it, I just don't like them. The second worst is the pin point accuracy they've managed on the light spectrum to assail my eyes.
It does however do the deed. Absolutely worth 10 bucks (free shipping).

cybereality

I had one of those in art school. I think it cost like $100 back then, but that was like 20 years ago. Totally essential for hand drawn animation. Really wish I would have saved my old art. They were on Zip Disks, even if I found them, I'd be surprised if they still worked, or any apps could open the files.

some_lame_kid

cybereality For the past month I just used an upstairs window. It would have worked fine if windows were not designed to diffuse light like that.

Nerdzmasterz

The first videos of the tut are up!

cybereality

So I've been playing more of Shadow Warrior on my Steam Deck. I really like the gameplay and old school look of the graphics. I'm pretty sure I can make something similar, at least in terms of the models and textures. Here are some shots I took tonight to give you an idea.

The game I want to make will be a first person shooter role playing game with parkour. I don't think I have the resources for a full open world, but I think a hub system similar to the new Deus Ex would work. So there will be self contained levels (let's say like 4 or 5 blocks of a city district) and then you can take a subway and warp to a different part of the city, or load into a building for a mission, etc.

The game can't be too long, since I want to work on it myself, but I think with clever reuse of modular assets I can make a decent size world. Might try over the next few weeks to do a small scene as a mockup and see how it looks. But this seems like the most promising thing right now.

It will be cyberpunk style, but not Cyberpunk 2077. I want to go with a Mirror's Edge type of look to it. Modern day Eastern European architecture, mostly day light, bright colors, etc. I will set a timeline for 2 years of development. I know that sounds crazy, but I think I can do it.

Megalomaniak

End of an era, tl;dw: EVGA is going to get out of GPU business:

cybereality

Wow, EVGA was always the best quality, good support too. I guess it makes sense, Nvidia is probably a horrible company to work for judging by the rumors I've heard.

Tomcat

cybereality Wow, EVGA was always the best quality, good support too.

Are you serious?! What about Zotak?

cybereality

Here's an updated Godot 4.0 render I worked on today.

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