Huge support for this. Tired of using my own clunky system for something that should be built in to Roblox.
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Really hope this becomes something that ROBLOX developers can use in the future; it’d save a lot of time for scripters. and animators. Huge support.
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I’m in favor of additive animations as well. I’m sick of my character floating in the air when I pull out my minigun and then begin crouching.
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Still waiting for this so we can finally animate look angles without editing welds with c0 offsets on renderstepped.
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This is a great featured, and I don’t think it would even be too hard for Roblox to implement (I might still be wrong)
I don’t understand why it’s not a thing yet
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I built a custom animator that allows you to do that and makes your workflow easier.
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This is awesome! Unfortunately, teams such as my own animate is Blender or other private software which are critical to our workflows and products. Additive animations should be a default feature in Roblox to ensure that it does not create an intrusion into our existing workflow.
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My animator can run any type of animation (bones support coming soon), actually blender animations are easier to control, blender builds all keyframes of all parts on export, but roblox doesn’t, I found out about this very late, a few weeks ago I had to redo my animator because of roblox… Roblox does not build all KeyFrames…
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Awesome! Thanks for the resource then.
ooh, I like it! it’s similar to the band-aid fix I made for my projects inspired from Unity but this looks to be a LOT more well-made.
I am actually really interested in this topic; however, I still do not completely understand.
Can this not be done in-engine already?
We’re already able to play multiple animations on a rig at once, is this not a form of additive animation? As you’re adding two animations together to create new movement?
Thanks!
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The engine currently supports blended animations, that’s multiplication and then addition. What this post wants is true additive animations. If I want the head of a character to rotate 90 degrees, but also for the head bobbing in the idle animation to remain, then I would need to add the head bobbing to my new animation as well, otherwise the head bobbing will disappear, or they’ll blend together and you’ll end up with a 45 degree head turn and an unenthusiastic head bob.
With additive animations, there are no animation priorities, no blending, and you can easily have a simple animation where the head is turned 90 degrees, and it’ll act like that’s part of the idle animation, thus your character’s head is turned 90 degrees and has the previously animated head bob.
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I can explain it through a video. I’ll have to do it later.
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As I work on a huge project in hopes of bringing quality player experience to the games, I realized how important this is and how it affects my project. Currently, I am working on an R6 game with animations involved and I want to depict realism and blend actions together. It is inconvenient right now without the feature. Hope to see native support for additive animations.
This would solve a lot of problems and open a lot of possibilities. Why isn’t there a native version yet?
I don’t care for necrobumping it, this topic NEEDS to be necrobumped.
Impossible to blend attack animations in the current priority framework. If these were the same priority the resulting motion would be a sloppy average of both the walk and the attack animation, this is the best I can do.
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Bumping this since I need this at the moment.
Getting this effect using priority and weight is not possible, and I don’t want to make a whole animation system just to achieve this.
This really isn’t a big ask. I would think it’s pretty easy to implement, especially with the current blending system that already exists?
Some neat stuff has been announced at RDC, but i can’t disclose much more about it i believe.
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Why isn’t this a thing in Roblox yet?
The only way to achieve this currently is by giving characters extra invisible body parts which also has limitations and downsides.
Huge support for this feature, I know where I’m going to need this and it’s going to make characters so much more animated and dynamic.
I’m surprised this isn’t a thing yet, i still have to modify c0 and c1 offsets just to get something additive, its not very performant but gets the job done.