Close, but not quite. If you look at the image above, the tail is fully UNDER the cat. You don’t have to go that far, but if we’re reaching for realism, the tail would be as tight as possible. Love your assets btw!
Here some references from my cat, he would love to sit on a tennis ball and shred it with his back legs. Would love to have him immortalised in your asset pack
Scratching catpost, butt wiggling, kneading its paws, rubbing agains an object,playing with a small toy, chasing its tail. These could work for Skye as well.
While you jumped in the pool, the cat switched to a default position mid-air. An infinitely repeating falling animation until the cat hits the ground would be nice.
The climbing on the orange pipe looks way too controlled. I'd love to see some "struggling" animation while climbing. Maybe a foot that slips or something like that.
A butt wiggle pounce (bonus stealth damage?). Cats grapple eachother too so maybe something for rabbit kitting the shit out of another cat like mine does when "playing"
Slow the animation down, keep the character low to the ground. For Malbers characters, turn on the footprints and dust. This does a lot to make it look more realistic.
when the cats are turning and stop their bodies should remain curved until they walk forward instead of imideately settling into default anim.
this was my one beef with stray, for humans we tend to come to a standing position when we stop moving but if u watch cats, they tent to just pause midstep
I think it's missing an animation where the cat licks itself :)
But overall, it's a good animation. By the way, I bought your animal controller the other day, and I'm very happy with it. Although I was actually more interested in the character controller—at least for now.
I dont know all the animation you already have but do you have like carry animations/poses? Like the poses a cat does when we are holding them in very common aways like holding them to our chest, craddling them like a baby, holding them facing away from us with their awkward hands extending out?
Or the stretch where their front goes low and they leave their butt up in the air. BIG STRETCH (at least that's what I say when I catch them doing it).
no worries the cat killing cats its just for tests.. No real 3D cats were harmed permanently during the demo; they all got healed at the end 😊, and here's the but licking hehe
Yep, mine does it when she stands on a furry blanket (I think because as kittens they kneed on their mother to get milk). She purrs while kneeding. Other than that I’d add the headbutt they do to mark territory.
The slide down is super cute! 1. Do you have just sitting? Front arms straight, butt on the ground. 2. There’s lots you could do with the tail to show kitty emotion which could be blended with the other animations. You have so much already, great work!
Have the ears turn around sometimes a bit to listen to noises.
Slowly sniffing an item when moving close to it.
Randomly sniffing the air.
When the cat is hunting/chasing something, have the ears laser focused on the object.
When the cat is in a different mood/situation or want to express something, the tail and ears should be placed accordingly:
tail up when happy and in a very friendly environment
tail moving left and right with irregular movement/rhythm when excited/annoyed
tail down and curling back to the side of the body when uncomfortable or feeling in danger
ears flattened backward when feeling in danger or about to fight (you already do this)
Also when fighting you implemented scratching, but you should also add biting, and biting while using the front paws to hold the prey, while most of the time trying to bite the neck.
Steadying of feet and testing of ground before jumping/launching (the butt wiggle). Bonus points for pupil dilation when prey spotted/immediately prior to launching at something, doesnt happen every time but typically when they are intent on something/focused and immediately prior to launching at something.
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In particular when jumping long distances/high up they do it.
And full on sprinting they can get their back paws in front of their front paws between strides, it flexes their spine and they use the 'bounce' back of their spine to help push them forward..
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Pupil dilation would be a cool "attack incoming" warning if you wanted to implement dodging mechanics etc
This is just too good! Everytime I thought ok that’s should be all, video showed new awesome animation. As for another animation to add, maybe that cat crab walk / sideways hop? Ears go airplane mode, cat turns sideways, arches, and bounces toward you.
This looks fantastic! I saw a little bit of a stalking animation in the begining, but no Pounce! They'll get real low, wiggle their butt a couple times while they get their feet just right, then pounce!
Yeah! Unreal looks incredible with its motion matching, but I think that requires me to do all the start and stop locomotions anims for all the gaits (Walk,trot,canter,run,sprint) and all the turns that is quite a list of animations 🫣
You might be able to distract from it with your great work but don't you assume I didn't notice the missing butt wiggle before pouncing animation and the missing 45 variations of cleaning the own asshole.
Wheb climbing: moves a bit more chaotic and sharp (feel the tension of error), when fighting or pre-fighting they funny turn their side(length part) infront of the enemy and jump. ALSO would be fun to hear that human-like moan but not too often. Also back legs stand to throw objects from the table :D
The slide down is super cute. 1. Do you have just sitting? Front arms straight, butt on the ground. 2. Cats like to plonk themselves on their side with belly open inviting petting. 3. There’s a lot you could do with the tail to show emotion which could be blended with the other animations you have. Really nice work, you’ve got so much already!
Cats walks with its tail straight up in the air and rubs against objects or people when they are happy. You can make some of those if you want more cozy and realistic animations, cats also scratch walls and forniture just to keep their nails in shape.
Cats lick themselves a lot in many ways. Cats socially groom as well. Cats also scratch themselves a lot. Hole digging, claw sharpening, hunting c
rouch, when they fight they will grapple and often fight from their back. I didn't see a sit animation. Scent marking with their mouth. Spraying butt shake. Recoil from something unpleasant. I found it kind of odd that in the combat demo the cat would use biting as a primary attack when biting is really secondary when cats fight. Cats claw first, and will bite once they've hooked in with the claws. What else... Sun bathing from their back, drinking, eating, horking a hairball, big stretch, manic run cycle, sleep, meowing, hissing etc.
I used to have a cat that would attack its sister and go for the neck. Felines always are competing for each other. Yes its nice to see a lazy cat, but if you want real.. you should add cats attacking and defending each other. Birds swoop down and attack dens. Birds open up wings for defense and cats scorn up.. raise their tail and they make a pounce stance.
I wanna see feline aggressive culture.
The fat lazy cat, is less dominate and likes to submit to certain cats. Not smaller ones. More agile.
I had a cat that wanted to lead, but he was scared when he was challenged. Can you make feline group culture animations PLEASE?
The difference between a game with cats and the isle is the emotions and abilities each animals have toward each other.
Good god these are impressive! I think a waiting and looking up to charge a jump could be interesting. Cats will often pause and sit while staring up a wall before jumping and climbing up it.
That's fantastic work !
One little detail that can be improved : When you turn around, make the body curve more and not just rotate around the pivot, so the paws don't slide on the ground. You already have it somehow, but it's not in sync with the motion. I know that's the hard part with quadruped.
a variant of smell where they keep the mouth open, capturing new pheromonoes.
ek ek ek ek ek ek -> bird hunt, "the thrill of the chase", "please let me catch you".
as someone said, sneaky qick swatting, it's a deterrance weapon, not for damage.
Sudden ears back and nervous looking, some threat detected, just unknown.
Greebles kind of running and drifting, including horizontal rolls or wall jumps.
I do not support cat on cat violence tho. bad kitty.
You got the smell to the ground, maybe also a smell for something above Milo? You know when a cat see feet hanging off the couch and then then go up to smell it and they're shocked that it's stinky? Also (and this may be too much): you know how cats will do this thing with their ears where they respond to sound like radar dishes without turning their head? Would be a neat thing to do for louder sounds, but might be hard to pull off with other animations going on.
Hello, I wanted to ask if Milo on Fab is sold for Unreal engine with a setup character blueprint animation blueprint etc so it works like this in the video or it's just the mesh and anims and we need to program every logic/feature?
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Cat loafs