MateDolce

Animation test - Butt physics

Added 2024-05-31 22:08:32 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay, I wanted to post a progress update by the end of the month but wasn't able to. The mini-game is taking me a while (it looks good tho), so for now I'll show you the work I've been doing on the animations.

In this animation Laura is supposed to be wiggling her butt to tempt you, it would look better if I knew how to simulate 2.5d effects, but that's a problem for another day.

I've rigged almost everything (I had to remesh a couple of parts because they didn't work), but the most important thing, which is Laura, is up and running. A new spine pro update has added physics simulation, a feature I had been waiting for a long time (to come out in the stable version) and it is working great.

There are a lot of little things I used to do manually that are now handled in the engine, making my life much easier, and improving the quality of the animations to a level I wasn't able to achieve before. I'm excited about the things I'll be able to do in the future, it makes me want to redo my old animations (I won't for now dw). The setup was a little tricky at first, but it will save me a lot of grief later on. I ran into problems when trying to export animations since the physics are simulated in the engine and don't necessarily loop correctly, so it's something that's stalling me and I hope it'll be fixed in the future.

This animation is obviously missing elements, you can use your imagination for now. I wanted to try out how humping would look like, I think it looks pretty good, it's making me consider whether to expand the scene or not.

I have a bit more writing to do before I can continue animating, and the mini-game is giving me some problems, but having Laura rigged and working has cleared an uncertainty out of my mind. The plan to launch the update in June is still on, so as soon as I have things more cooked I'll let you know.

That's all for now, thank you very much for your patience. Bye!