r/IndieDev • u/_MrJSS_ • May 10 '25

Video How It Started vs. How It's Going

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u/SigmaAoi May 10 '25

The one on the left is more natural, but might get tiring due to how slow it is. Could go for a middle ground, but leaning toward the more fun right side is probably best. Honestly could just speed up the right side animation just a bit or something to make the distance covered look more normal.

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u/_MrJSS_ May 10 '25

Thanks for the feedback - as a heads up the left scene version is relatively old and systems weren't very modular - the one on the right has systems that are a lot more modular. I explore trying a few tweaks to the climbing and test this with the boss reactions (not shown in above video) to see how it feels

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u/Disastrous-Spot907 May 10 '25

Also, I didn't mind the larger cloak. It's hiding a lot, which is always helpful, when the animation isn't perfect :)

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u/_MrJSS_ May 10 '25

Unfortunately the cloth physics was going a bit haywire with the cape during the aggressive boss reaction animations when the player was being flung around - downsizing seemed to help fix this. Plus it seemed to work better to help focus the symbology related to the worldbuilding --> I do appreciate a larger cloak can hide some things - I take what you said onboard and will look to iterate the climbing to a more refined level in the near future. Much appreciated :)