I started working on a multiplayer game recently and realized that Roblox’s default characters don’t convey much to the other players, so I wanted to try and fix this with my own character for my game.
One thing I’ve done is making the feet walk in the direction of your movement instead of always walking forward. The feet also adjust based on the height of the ground underneath them (shown in the second video)
Directional walking
Working with movement
sorry about my trash grammar lol
Great work! However I just want to clarify one thing:
A couple years ago Roblox added omni-directional movement animations to R15, you just have to enable them using beta. I don’t see many people talking about them, but I use the feature in almost every project I work on. I love it.
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Though I would like to ask how this animation translates to actual movement, because it’s easy to show this off in a stationary format, but it complicates heavily when trying to make it legitimately move. How would it handle translation of the rootpart and what about terrain? You state this is procedural which I assume uses IK but I’m not sure how you plan on allowing it to adapt to terrain and move at the same time, whilst preserving the fluid movement. The nature of many procedural animations that include a moving rootpart causes the animation to suffer when dealing with movement + step adjustment + animation.
this looks so bloody cool what the heck
looks much cooler than what i made to test ik controls, really good job
this is my attempt from last year (~40 lines of code)
The way I’m doing it, the feet aren’t actually raycasted and then moved in an arc to the next foot position and are instead just animated. They’re pretty much just moving in an oval towards the direction of movement. I do still raycast to move the feet up if the character is low to the ground tho