Finally got around to properly implementing the Cleric Beast enemy into the Central Yharnam Roadway track to start todays #BloodborneKart dev thread! Took a bit of tinkering to make it all work with a kart racer but it was well worth the effort!
Check it out:
First thing I did was make her land in front of the finish line instead of behind it, meaning that if it's a single lap race there's a chance that she can deny the player a win (as she is coded to jump in to block the lead racer at the end of the first lap)
She can now damage you!
Shifting gears to get back to the unfinished stretch of track on the opposite side of the level! I added in some ramps and marksman who have been tweaked to fire at a faster rate, as the original animation was so long that the racer would be long past them by the time they fired
Finished the building facades for the edges of this part of the track!
Now that we have a lot more features and polish on the track, lets do a full 2 lap race to see the overall progress!
And that'll be it for today's thread! Happy to be back into the swing of things 🙂
Starting todays #BloodborneKart dev thread polishing up the final stretch of track!
The final bridge turn had a bunch of holes and overlapping geometry due to it being so hastily constructed for the April fools video last year. All of that is now fixed! Take a look:
Added clutter!
Now that the track is mostly done, I finally updated the minimap! It's cutting a bit too far into the center of the screen, so I'll work on adding the ability to shift the map over to the right later.
2d and 3d animation are not two entirely separate entities. they're different methods of getting lines and shapes to display on a flat screen
and even viewing it in that context isnt the full story. its more of a gradient. what would something thats rotoscoped fall into? what about 3d characters that have hand drawn faces comped over? what about 2d characters that are drawn over 3d renders?
as an animator, once you view these differing 'animation genres' simply as tools to achieve the end result (which is 'shapes on a screen') so many more avenues of creation will open up to you.
so uhhhh i think im going through a sort of mid life crisis (trans edition™) rn so ill not be doing a bbpsx thread today
see yall uh. tomorrow. hopefully. 😅😅😅
to clarify im ok. fine even. ive had some bad 'wth even am i' nights for a few weeks but ive been confronting it and im handling it successfully.
i just cant vibe my way through my transition anymore. that was fine when i was a baby trans who didnt know what she was doing but its been a year and a half now and i have no plan.
the wardrobe thing from yesterday was a symptom of that.
im sure i have at least one follower who liked the anime lmao 😂
but like fr the anime is really well written. in hindsight the idea of dropping the drift narrative mechanic into a group of angsty anime teenagers with dark secret pasts seems like a surefire way to have a banger.