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Never stop slashing animations aren't "impossible"
There's already animations set in place for the conditions that effect the killer. I'm not sure why pixelated helmet animations to reflect these status effects aren't doable. You'd just have to edit the model frame by frame to create a new animation. Burdensome? Entirely. Impossible? Not nearly.
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It would be neat if killers actually reacted. Like that one trapper head that shows half his face. It’s pretty weird seeing someone get hit with a slab of wood and not wince
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Yeah they just don't want to do it especially for a free skin.
Its pretty lame because without the animation I don't think that Legion skin would have won
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I'd literally pay 20 bucks for the skin. It's too ######### cool to not get. As lame as legion is said to be the art team has done on a bang up job on their skins. I wish they'd show deathslinger some of that creativity instead of him looking like a extra onset for a ok corral movie.
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Yeah i think Deathslinger is my least favorite killer visually. Legion might actually be one of my favorites
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I wish that Billy and Wraith also had facial expressions, as their faces are actually showing. They did it for Clown and Spirit, I don't see why they can't give them other expressions as well.
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Spirit has facial animations, spirt and wraith just predated these times as they were unsure of the financial backing they'd have. this isnt cynical critique. its objective fact.
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Well,they never said it would be impossible.
Also,i'm not sure why you would think that this would be so easy to do.It took them like 3 or 4 years just to make the Bunny Feng skin work,sooo.....
Disappointing yes, but obvious.
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I gave them seven dollars a week ago. They should be set as far as financial backing goes.
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I don't think any of this is necessarily difficult, it's more a matter of time. PERSONALLY, I'm an animator, and I work with a mesh artist. We work together to make weapons for game mods. She makes the models, I animate the use of the models. The animating portion of the work takes longer, because it's a lot of "Do thing, go check if it looks right, adjust accordingly". Her work is a LOT faster, but her workload dictates the time anything will get done.
Considering all of that, making new facial animations would require rerigging the model with an updated skeleton. From there, the animator must go through and make animations for the character for every state they wish to animate, as well as several idle loops. If the facials animations are modular and work separately from the rest of the body, they would just need to animate the face. If not, they must go back to the original moveset animations of the Killer, and add facial animations to it. This can be a pain depending on the program they use because they also need to update the model they are using and make sure the newly rigged model and the old animations still work together and don't just break. From there, they can start working.
The amount of time that would eventually go into adding such features may seem less worth it than to have those same people work on brand new assets. As it stands, we have seen that the animators updated the Generator animations, which look pretty good. Several other animations got majorly tweaked as well. Textures were redone (I assume using something like Substance Painter or Substance Designer) to be more modern. The people that would be working on these kinds of updates to older models clearly have a workload at the moment that the devs feels are more important.
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You wouldn't even need it to be truly animated, just have it cycle through textures based on event scoring. However, it might be too much work for the game to handle, depending on what else is happening behind the code that we don't see.
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After hearing they wont do a health chapter because they have a big enough team to where they dont need one and then turn around and say we have "technical limitations" on the legion skin makes me angry.
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I mean I'm sure it's hypothetically "possible" to do it but it requires big changes to the game engine for some reason just so Legion can have funny neon emoji faces they're not going to bother.
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What "big" changes would have to be made? If the skin is going to be an outfit that means it can be its own asset, just program it where it has reactions?
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I have no idea what changes need to be made because I'm not one of their developers. I'm just taking them at their word from the Q&A that they tried to make it work and were disappointed when they discovered that it wasn't technically feasible to do.
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that first comment makes no sense.. so because you have more than enough people, you don't do something? I think this latest patch is evidence you do indeed need to do a health chapter.
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I wish they would offer a little more communication, like go into detail why they couldn't add reactions to the skin or go into detail why things are delayed or go into detail on what we should be expecting in the next few months. BHVR just has no communication which makes me not trust their word, I get most of my info from leaks anyways.
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Everybody knows that. All I said was that I wished they would go back and add some to earlier killers like Wraith or Billy.
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