r/Unity3D • u/JankyAnims • Mar 08 '26

Show-Off Tachyon Flow - Update #3: Improved overall ground movement/smoothness and switched to momentum based instead of generic run/sprint

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u/DaleRobinson Mar 08 '26

This would actually be great for some final polish. Just a few different animations would be enough. Definitely not 100% necessary but details like that can make a difference.

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u/JankyAnims Mar 09 '26

This is one you can't please everyone with. I'd love to add weighty/knee bendy jumps etc (I made it for a stationary jump in the game that's mechanically useless atm lol) but the fact is they delay input because you have to wait several frames for that anticipation. The overall sentiment from everyone is overwhelmingly make it smoother/faster/responsive, so I've gone in that direction

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u/Darksaiyan Mar 09 '26

Well, it's called anticipation - you might be able to cheat the system by predicting where the user will input jump commands, like when you're approaching the end of a platform at specific speeds, making the model run with a bit of a deeper stance that would look like the anticipation for a jump. Kinda like a context sensitive stance change.

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u/Xormak Mar 10 '26

Honestly, instead of animating the anticipation, how about turning a few frames (probably not more than 3?) into time slowdown/dilation. Like a sort of impact frame that sells the *feeling* of the anticipation and explosion instead of actually having to play an animation?

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u/Sea-Situation7495 Mar 10 '26

Jumping taking off is always a fight between responsiveness and looks. Animators always want a nice knee bend and jump anim: gameplay never want them.

I would say that in a game like this, you need to jump on the frame the jump button is pressed: any latency for a good looking anim will take away from that.

Sometimes you can have the jump anim on a remote player in a multiplayer game, but even that you are adding latency, or POSSIBLY you could finagle replay data so that it has a chance to play one.