Procedural Animation in Godot?

vellis

Hi everyone!

I've recently seen a GDC video from 2014 (http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020583/Animation-Bootcamp-An-Indie-Approach) where a nice technique to animate characters (and other objects) is used by just using static poses, that will be interpolated to produce the animations. The dev that talks about this has used this on Overgrowth, an early access title on Steam.

Does anyone know if this technique is possible in Godot? Can keyframes be interpolated from code? Any samples of this around?

MagicLord

You can manually rotate bones, you can use lerp to interpolate or Godot animation curves.

TwistedTwigleg

I'll just leave this here... Though it is technically not procedural, you could in theory make procedural animations with it.

MagicLord

There is a tutorial docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/community/tutorials/3d/inverse_kinematics.html

vellis

Is lerp the only interpolation function in the engine?

Calinou

@vellis said: Is lerp the only interpolation function in the engine?

You can use the Tween node for smoothing transitions; it can operate on any property or method. For usage examples, see the official Tween demo.