Solium - personal research and development

kuligs2

The key takeaway from previous post is - you have to be good artistically to get away with optics to make users feel like its very detailed.. and im only autistic..

Gonna start creating assets for a while, maybe build a small scene in blender first.. then import to godot..

Gotta practice art, because if you cant do art, atleast basic thing to make your project, then its just another unity asset slop.

Tomcat

kuligs2 Gotta practice art, because if you cant do art, atleast basic thing to make your project, then its just another unity asset slop.

A whole bunch of programmers are making games that are terrible from an artistic standpoint, and they don't seem to care much about it.

kuligs2

Tomcat i know, thats why i stopped buying games because most games look like the same slop as the next one..

kuligs2

Two freaking weeks.. jeesless christ..

Holy moly.. but atleast now i know the workflow.

Modeled low poly table, painted texture on it, and with struggle exported as rigid body.

kuligs2

Also forgot to add that i discovered "feature" where on my high end pc the character was moving slow (ground speed) while the animation was the same. The speed rate depended on monitor framerate. On 360hz it was super slow. On 144hz monitor was twice faster than before, and on 60hz it looked normal as i was used to.

Turned out if you use root motion to set the velocity:

velocity = get_quaternion() * anim_player.get_root_motion_position() / delta

then on animation player or animationtree, depends which one you use, you need to set:

Callback Mode > Physics (Default is Idle)

And then character will move as per root motion as you saw in the video in the previous post.

kuligs2

Alright, how long was it? A week? Maybe Two?

Anyways, practicing blender is fun. Also trying to keep as low poly as my conscience allows me is fun too.

Got myself 55 objects

And only 15k faces

Making some clutter stuff so that i could place them around the scene. I guess its starting to look like bootleg Elder scrolls.

The list so far:

Need to start makin more furniture sets or somehting (large stuff).. Cant really imagine what kind of medieval IKEA would look like.

kuligs2

18 days later...

Made lots of more clutter stuff..

But now im making creatures/npc's

What i realised, that i need to set up system for npc where i have every parameter npc needs and i just change mesh and animation and speed and create new entity.. Right now i have to write all the things from scratch.. adapting player script is not an option cuz it has too many dependencies.

But oh well.. keep on trying to figure out where to improve in my workflow.

Modeling was more fun than returning back to scripting in godot .. meh..

Im dreading texturing.. im no artist.. texture can make or break the immersion/illusion.

ArDanZ11

kuligs2 Modeling was more fun than returning back to scripting in godot .. meh..

Im dreading texturing.. im no artist.. texture can make or break the immersion/illusion.

I'm just bad at all of it.

kuligs2

ArDanZ11 i dont know how to draw either. dont really want to use other people's textures.. gotta figure something out

ArDanZ11

kuligs2 This is the best I've ever done so far:

I use a thing called Blockbench for low-poly modeling.

kuligs2

So, bledner and godot keeps puttin traps in my path..

Wanted to create simple slime character.. simple.. Turned out spent a week chasing bugs.. And im not into jelly-fishin.

So i started as usual in blender. Made a simple low poly mesh with eyes

Added few bones and i didnt forget to add Root bone and then parent every other bone to it so that i can use root motion in godot.

Why is the root bone not pointing up? Well i took an inspiration from my human rig where the root bone was like that as well. Since it worked there, why change it, right?

Anyways, spent time making animations.

Then made simple character in godot. Animations worked and looked fine, and the root motion thingie was set.

But then in game it was messed up.. the mesh was going up while the collision was going the correct way.

Ok, i saids, i might messed up or something, after all, im no expert here, not even educated in these things..
So i re-rigged the slime with new armature and 1 bone.. clearly i cant mess this up.. can i?

So it kinda worked, this time i made the bone point up in blender and it was kinda working..

But you cant animate much dynamics with 1 bone..

So i made a new armature with more bones

An now all is well. Finally can animate this thing and move on.

TLDR
Godot is buggy still.. since 4.5 with root motion bone rotation.
The root bone has to be straight up otherwise it will mess up root motion direction when you apply the rotations to your char velocity as per:

var is_root_motion = true

func move_root(delta:float) -> void:	
	if is_root_motion:
		velocity = (get_quaternion() * animation_player.get_root_motion_position() / delta) * speed
		set_quaternion(get_quaternion() * animation_player.get_root_motion_rotation())
		
func _physics_process(delta: float) -> void:
	# Add the gravity.
	if not is_on_floor():
		velocity += get_gravity() * delta
		
	if follow_target and target != null:

		animation_player.play("Walk")
		move_root(delta)

Next i want to explore the real NPC thingie with baked navigation maps and other goodies, to follow the player when aggro. And ofc make it jump to overcome obstacles. Not sure how to do that.

And i need to remodel the slime.. triangle faces are not good for deformation.. need quads to make animation look better and not as rough.

kuligs2

kuligs2 Trying to make NPC follow player when player enters the NPC area3d.

Dunno whats going on here..

func _physics_process(delta: float) -> void:
	# Add the gravity.
	if not is_on_floor():
		velocity += get_gravity() * delta

	# Handle jump.
	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("ui_accept") and is_on_floor():
		velocity.y = JUMP_VELOCITY

	# Get the input direction and handle the movement/deceleration.
	# As good practice, you should replace UI actions with custom gameplay actions.
	var input_dir := Input.get_vector("ui_left", "ui_right", "ui_up", "ui_down")
	var direction := (transform.basis * Vector3(input_dir.x, 0, input_dir.y)).normalized()
	if direction:
		velocity.x = direction.x * SPEED
		velocity.z = direction.z * SPEED
	else:
		velocity.x = move_toward(velocity.x, 0, SPEED)
		velocity.z = move_toward(velocity.z, 0, SPEED)
		
	if follow_target and target != null:
		#look_at(target.global_position, Vector3.UP)
	
		animation_player.play("Walk")
		move_root(delta)
		navigation_agent_3d.target_position = target.global_position
		var destination = navigation_agent_3d.get_next_path_position()
		var local_destination = destination - global_position
		direction = local_destination.normalized()
		
		rotation.y = lerp_angle(rotation.y, atan2(direction.x, direction.z), 0.3)
				
			
	move_and_slide()

EDIT:

From what i know, this should work, and the NPC should track the player/target but sometimes it looses the target and it get set to some "relative" coords.. as i walk left or right it tracks the next_target_pos but not towards me the player..

Maybe someone here knows what am i missing?

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