Needles to say I haven't finished the character controller yet. I did work on it though. The block animation is finished and scripted now, and I fine tuned a few things and squashed a few bugs in the script and animation controller.
-The PC would keep moving while doing the attacking animation and some animations where blending into each other when they were not suppose to.
-The combos script worked fine but would cut the attack animations short if the attack button/key was pressed "too fast", it works properly now and the attacks stop the player until the attack is finished.
-I had it set up to the key board, but have started to focus on getting it to work with a controller.
There are still lots of movement to make graphics for and program. But quite a bit of the movement/animation logic is pretty much done.
I bought some training videos designed to teach NPR rendering, I'll have to study them more when I have time and I feel like it.
I gave into the devils computer upgrade temptation last week and bought a-
GIGABYTE V-N770OC-4GD GeForce GTX 770 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready WindForce 3X 450W Video Card.
Suffice to say I'm kind of broke for buying big things for a while lol. I got it off NewEgg.ca and got a free* copy of Watch Dogs with it.
The new vid card went into my development computer, I'll use the other one in a new game comp I plan to slowly buy parts for.
I can't say I'm overly impressed with the cards performance over the last one. It dose render on screen graphics faster but the overall performance upgrade feeling is about a 15% - 25% difference from the other card. With 50% more physical weight, 50% physically bigger, 50% more cost, 50% more ram and over double the CUDA cores I was hoping for at least double performance compared to the last card.
It's still worth it if you have the extra money to get more performance. Just note that performance gain from the same generation of GeForce cards won't be all that spectacular, at lest from a casual development perspective.
Random Artwork: For this post I decided to model a necklace with the logo on Aiden Pearce's hat. I don' really feel that it came out all that great, but meh.
Watch Dogs came with the card I bought. Sadly it came as a digital download. Someone like me that predates the Nintendo generation was kind of disappointing that I didn't get a CD. And I had to sign up for Ubi play or whatever the fuck it was called before I could even download it.....
Getting this reminded me why I hate big studio games (companies), or at lest the methods they use to vend and keep control over. Makes you think that sometime in the future they will want a stool, blood and urine sample, CAT scan and have multiple background checks to make sure your not going to share their game before you can buy.
The game is well done, there are a few nit picky areas that I notice could have used some improvement. The gameplay style reminds me of GTA with Metal Gear tactical action.
It'll probably keep my attention for a month if I'm lucky.
Still working on my game though, mostly rendering animation frames right now.
