Character Walk animation

[Restless Frager]

I thought about posting that in ideas but it seemed like a subforum mostly used for mechanics.

Seems to me like there's a reccurent problem between both iteration of the player's avatar: Its running animation.

People seem to find it choppy and I think I get the problem : There's no shoulder movement.



Imagine the upper body rocking form left to right as the character walks, it would look much more fluid.

[Nova]

You are a few versions late, there's already a newer version of the running animation with moving shoulders.
Looks still weird, but better, I think.

[Canyew]

Yeah, the animation is a bit stiff. However it's a game in progress so I have no problems with it.

My question is, does anyone else picture the PC as like a Soviet Russian space miner? (Not trying to be offencive here. I like the aesthetic, plus the fact he has a AK47 on his back doesn't help my opinion.)

It's like "Captain Kirov is here! I will burn down your forests, steal all your ore and pollute your lands! For the Space Motherland!"

I Fricken swear that TVTropes nailed the discription of the game perfectly in one category: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/V ... e/Factorio

Video Game Cruelty Potential: Factorio almost encourages you to play like a Captain Planet villain: clear cut forests, use up natural resources, pollute the environment for a vaguely-explained reason...all in the name of making your factory bigger and better.

[Restless Frager]

You are a few versions late, there's already a newer version of the running animation with moving shoulders.
Looks still weird, but better, I think.

Well I wouldn't know, I'm on the last version before tanks.

Yeah, the animation is a bit stiff. However it's a game in progress so I have no problems with it.

I'm not sayign I have a problem with it, and I wish people stopped using that excuse for every issue found about the game. We're here to alpha test it, it's our duty to go around and point at these issues.

[sillyfly]

Well, they did say they are unsatisfied with it, and are still working on making it look better.
Look up the FFF post from a few weeks ago where they say how whenever they take a break they run in front of the graphic department so they can have examples of how human running actually looks