Although, something that bothers me is that (at the part where it makes the jump) it seems to fall at a constant rate into the water instead of meeting any resistance (e.g. smashing into it - it's a whale, so it's pretty heavy regardless of its underwater grace ^^).
Also there's a few parts where the animation seems to flip out slightly, one of the most obvious are at 0:28.
You might've fixed this stuff by now, but thought I'd mention it ^^
@Aragashia Yes, some things still need work! The gravity does decrease relative to the water depth, but maybe I should ramp that up more for emphasis. I'm still working on more convincing splash/particle effects as well.
The swim animation speed is tied to the velocity, so it pauses while the whale is falling/sinking back to swimming depth and that needs to be addressed. The additive blending really shows redundant animations when they stack, I have fixed some of those.
I love how much better the animation blending is here than on the dragons in Skyrim. Looks phenomenal!
Uberslug 3 weeks ago
@CocoaValley Looks pretty nice!
Although, something that bothers me is that (at the part where it makes the jump) it seems to fall at a constant rate into the water instead of meeting any resistance (e.g. smashing into it - it's a whale, so it's pretty heavy regardless of its underwater grace ^^).
Also there's a few parts where the animation seems to flip out slightly, one of the most obvious are at 0:28.
You might've fixed this stuff by now, but thought I'd mention it ^^
Aragashia 1 month ago
@Aragashia Yes, some things still need work! The gravity does decrease relative to the water depth, but maybe I should ramp that up more for emphasis. I'm still working on more convincing splash/particle effects as well.
The swim animation speed is tied to the velocity, so it pauses while the whale is falling/sinking back to swimming depth and that needs to be addressed. The additive blending really shows redundant animations when they stack, I have fixed some of those.
Thanks for the CC :)
CocoaValley 1 month ago
That is really, really pretty, I'm impressed.
POOPTURTLE 1 month ago
@POOPTURTLE Thanks!
CocoaValley 1 month ago
nice work! how did you get the caustics on the whale?
Frankrs3d 2 months ago
@Frankrs3d Thank you :) I wrote a script that assigned a loop of images to a light cookie.
CocoaValley 2 months ago
wow that's good ... the whale looks very realistic
4858chris 4 months ago
@4858chris Thank you! They are so graceful and I really tried to capture that.
CocoaValley 4 months ago