Holy crap new dance animation - Page 3

Harowen · 11-05-2009, 02:53 PM

Wood elves need riverdancing.

alvarez · 11-05-2009, 02:55 PM

THIS WILL BRING NEW LIFE TO EQ2.
I WELCOME OUR NEW DANCING ANIMATION OVERLORDS.
PRAISE BE.
ETC.

Crabbok · 11-05-2009, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Kendayar

There's so much shit that needs to be fixed in the core game and all they can come up with is... a dance animation.

Considering that this is the work of animators, what core game issues need fixed that the animators need to address before dance animations?

Diknak · 11-05-2009, 03:09 PM

Dance animations are nice, but I hope it goes beyond just /dance. We rarely see dance animations, so it would be great if each race got a pack of race specific combat animations. Playing different toons would be very refreshing.

Vinyard · 11-05-2009, 03:13 PM

Still waiting for the ability to sit down in chairs....

Sylvanking · 11-05-2009, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Paiacyssa

I just wish Arasai had an animation where it looked like they were cutting themselves.

/emote say ....... hmm cant remember the command ...

anyway you can take any emote animation and change the text to read what you want.

you can make this if you want it.

Illuminator · 11-05-2009, 03:25 PM

That OP animation doesn't say shit to me. I find it vague, bashful, and unexpressive.

But on the subject of animations, they need to fix combat arts whose animations assume you're holding a 1H weapon, even when you're really holding a 2H weapon. It looks really awkward when you suddenly swing a 6 foot long broadsword in one hand like you're spanking a kid.

Kendayar · 11-05-2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Crabbok

Considering that this is the work of animators, what core game issues need fixed that the animators need to address before dance animations?

I speak of the team as a whole, and to me I see a dance animation (as well as Station Cash) being used as a fantastic distraction from getting anything worth getting done done.

Crabbok · 11-05-2009, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Kendayar

I speak of the team as a whole,

Keep in mind the Whole Team, doesn't do animations. That is the animators who do. This is a poor case to try and say that nothing is getting done.

Diknak · 11-05-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Vinyard

Still waiting for the ability to sit down in chairs....

damn I can't believe that this garbage still comes up. They have addressed this a countless number of times. In order for characters to interact with objects like that, the object and/or character would have to normalized since toons come in all shapes and sizes. So if you went to sit in a chair, either you would have to shrink, the chair would have to shrink, you would have to grow, or the chair would have to grow to fit the animation. Get over it already.