Things Are Moving Nicely Now (Patreon)

Hello, everyone!

The character control I've been working on is finally moving really nicely.

Just from head tracking alone, the whole body now moves. Well, mostly the upper body, though.

Instead of simply mirroring the head movement directly, I've been adjusting things so that each bone moves in coordination, taking into account how force transfers through the body and where the center of gravity sits.

Comparing before and after the adjustment, the difference is pretty clear.

Using a simple model to test the motion makes it much easier to see how the movement control is actually working.

I also tried swapping in a different character to see if it would still work, and it moved nicely there too. Model by: 『璃々 -Lili-』

I haven't built out the system for swapping characters yet, so I'm doing it manually for now. Eventually I'd like to turn it into a proper feature.

I'll write up the details of this movement controls in a proper article at some point! (I wonder how many times I've said that by now.)

Whenever I come up with something new, I want to try it out right away, and before I know it, I've been building instead of writing. But if I don't write things down soon, I'll end up forgetting what I actually did, so I guess I should put together a proper write up at some point.