Distance Matching Locomotion : Giving it a shot!

[Muoio117 (Ryan)]

@Berkay_Tuna

They all have same functionality in the end. But if you ask me your video doesnt look very bad. Slowmo behaves sometimes very awkwardly. The node is changing the Root orientation and since the speed is not changing i would expect some foot sliding. That slowmotion probably makes it look like 3 times worse than it is actually. A Lerp with an Alpha somewhere between 0.04 and 0.05 should be good. I assume Strider has a regular Lerp Alpha for Smoothing, which is between 0 and 1.

My goal is to make the animation look good even in slowmo. MostHost LA made a good point about people who have low fps. Low fps will display all the faults in animations, if not done correctly.

@postman09

You actually want to compute the orientation warp angle for each cardinal direction every frame, then use a blend node to blend between the directions. That will ensure smooth orientation warping. It’s how I do it in my system now.

Thanks for the input. I have looked over how Epic did it, and they do the same, from what my ignorant eyes I can tell. I have actually already implemented this scheme (I think, at least), but perhaps I’m doing something incorrectly.

(I also think I’m hijacking this thread, so feel free to instruct me to make a new thread at any time.)