Tuning the Body Animation — Handmade Hero — Episode Guide

1:17Run the game, demo our problem with the stretching not looking great and consider moving to a more top-down perspective

3:12Blackboard: How top-down art may solve the detachment problem

5:15Run the game and demo the lack of collision on the side walls

7:30handmade_world_mode.cpp: Move the head down and draw it in front of the cape

8:29Blackboard: How the art assets are currently packed

10:13handmade_render_group.cpp: Investigate the sorting

11:57Debugger: Break on PushBitmap for the cape and head and inspect their SortKey

16:03handmade_world_mode.cpp: Sort the body parts slightly more correctly

19:42handmade_world_mode.cpp: Limit the shearing

24:14handmade_world_mode.cpp: Mitigate the separation problem

32:33Run the game and consider disallowing diagonal movement

34:29handmade_world_mode.cpp: Disallow diagonal movement

39:01Run the game and try out the cardinal movement

42:14handmade_world_mode.cpp: Clean up the controller code

45:49Run the game and try out the controller code

46:21handmade_world_mode.cpp: Re-enable the head's recentering code

46:44Run the game and try out the recentering

47:32handmade_world_mode.cpp: Delay the recentering

49:55handmade_math.h: Introduce ClampAboveZero

52:41Run the game and try out the delayed recentering

55:07Q&A

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55:07Q&A

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55:07Q&A

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55:31fr0styninja Do you think like a sort of rhythmic based movement where the hero would have to wait a bit before being able to move again (say he's getting ready for a jump instead of stamina-lessly jumping around non-stop) could perhaps help in this situation? Realise it's a design decision and might not be what you're looking for, but perhaps you haven't entertained the idea

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55:31fr0styninja Do you think like a sort of rhythmic based movement where the hero would have to wait a bit before being able to move again (say he's getting ready for a jump instead of stamina-lessly jumping around non-stop) could perhaps help in this situation? Realise it's a design decision and might not be what you're looking for, but perhaps you haven't entertained the idea

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55:31fr0styninja Do you think like a sort of rhythmic based movement where the hero would have to wait a bit before being able to move again (say he's getting ready for a jump instead of stamina-lessly jumping around non-stop) could perhaps help in this situation? Realise it's a design decision and might not be what you're looking for, but perhaps you haven't entertained the idea

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56:21ttbjm Do you think rotating the torso would help?

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56:21ttbjm Do you think rotating the torso would help?

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56:21ttbjm Do you think rotating the torso would help?

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57:12cubercaleb For the Q&A can you have the hero walk around on a live loop?

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57:12cubercaleb For the Q&A can you have the hero walk around on a live loop?

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57:12cubercaleb For the Q&A can you have the hero walk around on a live loop?

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57:44sssmcgrath Try wrapping the body around bezier rather than just linear stretching?

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57:44sssmcgrath Try wrapping the body around bezier rather than just linear stretching?

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57:44sssmcgrath Try wrapping the body around bezier rather than just linear stretching?

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58:24billdstrong For the up-down motion, couldn't you forgo the stretch, and have a jump of each part?

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58:24billdstrong For the up-down motion, couldn't you forgo the stretch, and have a jump of each part?

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58:24billdstrong For the up-down motion, couldn't you forgo the stretch, and have a jump of each part?

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58:38beerchug Why wouldn't you shear the top of the feet to stay under the moving body?

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58:38beerchug Why wouldn't you shear the top of the feet to stay under the moving body?

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58:38beerchug Why wouldn't you shear the top of the feet to stay under the moving body?

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59:11commandercool0 What about a small translation of the body before and after the jump, say 10%-20% of the distance between adjacent dots?

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59:11commandercool0 What about a small translation of the body before and after the jump, say 10%-20% of the distance between adjacent dots?

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59:11commandercool0 What about a small translation of the body before and after the jump, say 10%-20% of the distance between adjacent dots?

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59:52handmade_world_mode.cpp: Displace the body based on the distance of the head from the nearest traversable point

1:05:06Run the game and check out the displacement

1:05:35handmade_world_mode.cpp: Apply the floor displacement only to the cape

1:05:56Run the game and check out the cape's displacement

1:06:35btngames The more I see the more I like this. I wonder whether a subtle head bob may add a feeling of believability. Just a thought

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1:06:35btngames The more I see the more I like this. I wonder whether a subtle head bob may add a feeling of believability. Just a thought

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1:06:35btngames The more I see the more I like this. I wonder whether a subtle head bob may add a feeling of believability. Just a thought

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1:07:47longboolean Would it help if the body stayed on the tile, but the cape was positioned between the body and the head?

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1:07:47longboolean Would it help if the body stayed on the tile, but the cape was positioned between the body and the head?

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1:07:47longboolean Would it help if the body stayed on the tile, but the cape was positioned between the body and the head?

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1:08:21Consider asking Yangtian for art that is more top-down

1:09:48thesizik Perhaps a minimum stretch length so you don't get disappearing bitmaps while moving down?

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1:09:48thesizik Perhaps a minimum stretch length so you don't get disappearing bitmaps while moving down?

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1:09:48thesizik Perhaps a minimum stretch length so you don't get disappearing bitmaps while moving down?

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1:10:03Close up

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1:10:03Close up

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1:10:03Close up

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1:10:41Announcement: HandmadeCon 2016¹

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1:10:41Announcement: HandmadeCon 2016¹

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1:10:41Announcement: HandmadeCon 2016¹

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