Hi, Lussy here.
We’re progressing with the game, even
if it seems like we’re just lazing around not doing anything. I’m
working on weapon scripts at the moment, while Geril is creating the
3rd player character’s model and working on Eslie and the bobcat
too. The bobcat has lots of placeholder combat animations, so I
started working on a more serious combat system (until now it was very simple). I’m going to talk about these scripts now, in
hope of either helping out someone, or someone telling me why they
suck. Remember, I’m not an experienced scripter, I just get an idea
and then try to make it work. So with that said, let’s begin.
The current combat system consists of 3
possible combat animations being played. The first one simply plays
when you push the attack button, and the second and third ones appear
if you successfully maintain a combo. Until now, all this was simply
based on timers in the script, but right now I’m experimenting with
AnimNotifies. It works like this:
-Player presses the attack button. The
combat animation starts.
-When the animation gets to the point
where it should start dealing damage, an animnotify calls the
function for tracing the swing, and when it shouldn’t deal any more
damage, another animnotify stops the tracing process. This way if the
animation has a part where the sword is held stationery, it won't
hurt anyone.
-There are also two animnotifies for
doing combos. They mark the two points in between which the player
can push the attack button to continue the combo.
-The last animnotify marks where the
second animation should play, if the player wants to continue the
attacking combo. If there wasn’t any input, the current animation
simply finishes and the player gets back to the idle state.
I needed to do lots of planning to make
this work, and I’m still not sure if it’s going to stay (there
are lots and lots of ways it can make the weapon stop working
altogether, as of now.). If any of you know any better, please don’t
hesitate to comment.
Players can have two weapons with them
(and some more in their bags, which can only be accessed while out of
combat), though only one can be equipped at a time, the other one
will be sheathed. Right now, only the sword has the combo system
mentioned before, the axe is still very primitive, but functional.
Obviously, the axe will be slower but stronger.
The sword only has
these really slow animations for debugging purposes. It will be a
quick weapon in the final game, with great mobility.
 |
| Planned combat speed |
That's about it, for now. See you next time!
