It's pointing too far to the left.

Every animator for every game you have ever loved does that. if it looks fine from POV, leave it.

Ive updated the hand,thanks to ODX for pointing it out
Edited by Yoko R on Apr 21, 2010 at 08:33 PM

I spy slight, slight clipping, I THINK, on the finger and the trigger, but who cares, no one will see :D

If nobody sees it and can oogle over it, there's no reason to make it excessively pretty. Wasted development time.

Heres my theory on this stuff. If it is something no one will see unless they look through a scope while someone stands perfectly still, who cares! :D

minor clipping is good and necessary. Clipping hands to gun can help emulate grip.

Of course, you have to watch for when it gets too noticeable depending on your animations, and adjust it as such.

hence the qualifier "minor"
Edited by ICEE on Apr 22, 2010 at 02:48 PM

Shuddup I is smart I knew you said that I just wanted to put emphasis on it :[

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh-dg2-lqZI

Continuing my Elite FP animation set; this time the Needler (no screen recording for it, sorry) and the first part of the Pistol. I hope people are still learning from these vids; they have definitely helped me improve my work habits as I start noticing all the little inefficient ways I used to do things.
Edited by teh lag on Apr 24, 2010 at 12:28 PM

Ive been watching those and its helped me a lot,thanks lag
Edited by Yoko R on Apr 24, 2010 at 01:48 PM

HUD for teh lag.

hardly looks elite/covenant.

you hardly look elite/covenant ._.

That actually looks great, Jesse. I think purple is a weird color to use for it though, especially that patent of a shade.

I'm only copying what teh lag wanted.

What's that bar in the very top right?

most likely heat/age for plasma rifles.

or just a sexy purple decorative bar

or flash light battery bar -_- or invis camo bar

kinda ugly imho :C

He wanted an oddly placed shield status bar?(over the ammo?)

The purple is kinda strange but it works for it being a covenant HUD.(wait... elites wouldn't have a HUD would they? I mean theres no visor on them for it to show up on. All well) ^_^

Halo 2 used a Purple Elite hud, and supposedly, the visor is on the elites eyeball as some kind of contact lens, hence why the arbiters eyes change from black, to brown.

H2 wasn't that purple, it had a more of a magenta color it, somewhat similar to the color of the covenant carbine.

The color is there for the sake of being there at the moment. Jesse and I haven't decided on a color scheme yet. The bar at the top-right is for weapon heat. The shield/health bar has been re-scaled (compressed vertically some) and may even get a redesign if we can't get it to look good with the current one.

And, the saga of Elite FP weapon anims continues once again with the second part of the Pistol - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cV8QCjjgIs

Nothing too creative in there, but I've got a special something in the works that I'll be putting up tomorrow. Hopefully you all will enjoy it and it'll help show just how creative you can get with FP.
Edited by teh lag on Apr 28, 2010 at 09:57 PM

low-poly Colt .25, based on an airsoft of mine, images here:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS371US371&q=colt25%20airsoft&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

fact: I don't entirely grasp how to do curvy surfaces. result: the back side's pretty freakin bad

EDIT:
Photobucket's down, broken image link. Will repost tomorrow :\

E2:

laghhgh



Edited by Marka Haiyana on Apr 29, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Hey, remember how I said I'd have something special today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SR88yODcsI - Presenting the Assault Rifle Turbo Ultra MegaReload

Check it out, you might learn a thing or two about breaking boundaries.
Edited by teh lag on Apr 29, 2010 at 07:25 PM

i like it. though its just a bit too long if it was to go ingame.

also what was that graph looking thing you opened up?

Yeah. It's 222 frames long, not going ingame anytime soon. This was purely for fun and to get to flex my creativity muscles without the constraint of "but will it work in the game?!"

The "graph looking thing" is the curve editor, I've been using it a lot in these vids. Basically you can control interpolation between animation keys with it - very useful for fine-tuning.

Where do you get all that amazing music is what I want to know. Does it say on your vids? Maybe I am just not observant enough :P

for the music, see the top left corner of the screen at the very beginning? clicky.

Quick little firing I did for the shotgun. I didn't look at the Reach animations and I didn't really think much of what I remembered when I was making this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5uVQKGvM8k

Probably won't use it for anything but I've always wondered if there's some sort of right and wrong to a shotgun firing, especially for a Halo shotgun.

Return to origins after the pump seems a bit awkward. Other than that, not bad.

model is in its boxy state,crit. please