War of the Ring - Mirkwood Spider

[HerrDave]

It is I, HerrDave and I am 100000% out of-- just-- *angry sounds*

I cannot for the life of me animate this model.

I need to have it's legs spread out in all animations but the standing animation, and I am being completely screwed by MdlVis.

If anyone would be willing to -suffer- through editing this model, I would be in your debt and your name will be featured on the intro-screen of the War of the Ring map I've been toiling on.


To any who are brave enough, here is the model.
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/pastebin/d85834ce034e301bbbe85e491d0eb28211973/
Good luck!

 

[Cuore]

Hmmm I feel masochist, let me try.

I find the skeleton structure not of my liking, it tends to confuse me because of some inconsistencies in namings. I assume there is no problem if I rearrange it as I see fit as long as it gets the job done, correct?

 

[HerrDave]

You can make whatever changes you like, so long as the end result is something like this

 

[Mister_Haudrauf]

You can make whatever changes you like, so long as the end result is something like this

Look's like a case of Normal Spider Animations with a Custom Stand Animation. Seems easy to me, but i could be wrong.

Hey @Cuore maybe you can do that this way.

 

[HerrDave]

I tried using the default spider animations, but the problem I kept bumping into was that the default spider is too low to the ground and when I move the bones in the body and legs up to compensate for that, it breaks the attack and death animations :c

I have to say that animation-wise, this is easily the most daunting thing I've ever had to work with, despite being one of the simplest models I've made.

 

[Cuore]

Thanks guys for these informations I believe that the best course is to genuinely animate this from scratch. I just need some time to reshape the skeleton in a way that I'm comfortable animating and then I'll try

 

[Cuore]

First of all Mr_Haudrauf your suggestion was great as a reference for movements of a walking spider even thoug a simple animation transfer can't cut it thanks.

@HerrDave I like the starting position that you imposed to "walk fast". Could it be used as a starting position for "walk" too? (cause I'm leaning towards "yesplease")

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Beside a large number of youtube tutorials to animate spiders' walking sequences, having a look at the blizzard's spider walk from above reveals a simpler pattern than I would have expected (colors highlight the limbs moving in concordance):

Spoiler: Don't view if arachnophobic

The quadruplets (red+purple) and (black + blue) move almost perfectly together

 

[HerrDave]

For the default walk animation, I'd prefer the front legs to be down with the rest, but if it proves too harrowing, you can pull them up for both animations.

The reason I had them up and spooky looking in the walk fast animation was to freak out my arachnophobic friend and to use it in a charge ability

 

[Cuore]

For the default walk animation, I'd prefer the front legs to be down with the rest, but if it proves too harrowing, you can pull them up for both animations.

The reason I had them up and spooky looking in the walk fast animation was to freak out my arachnophobic friend and to use it in a charge ability

Received. Will do. Also I should hide stuff to avoid exploit of poor arachnophobic users by their mean friends ^.-
(not like there isn't already plenty of warnings and spiders' images already lmao)

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WIP update: please review the first two fore-limbs cycle.
I find that the movement of these three-jointed forelimbs is very similar to the one you can make if you extend your index finger, push slightly on a table's surface and slide it backwards.
I can see that the orientation of the moving forelimbs is different from the one in the static pictures you linked, they're close together and pointing forward while they're open in the pics. Do you want them more spread out?
I don't feel alright with the blank gap between most legs and the body. Is it a concern if it remains as visible as it is now?
(if the gap needs to be reduced, it's best to do it before continuing with the rest of the cycle)

Spoiler: Not for arachnophobics

(spiders are intensely creepy)


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Edit2:
<---- just realized that cryptfiends have 6 limbs :O <shock>


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Edit3:
bump, I need this instruction regarding the limb-body gap to be made clear before I can continue.

 

[Cuore]

could it be that my edited post hasn't been noticed? I really need this information before proceeding further: (

 

[Mister_Haudrauf]

could it be that my edited post hasn't been noticed? I really need this information before proceeding further: (

Only new Comments will be noticed. If you edit a comment then it will not be seen as new. Therefore not noticed.

 

[HerrDave]

My apologies for the delay in my response - I had been working on the 480x480 version of the map this model will be appearing in :x

Don't worry about the gap between the legs, leave that to me

Thanks again for your patience with me and your willingness to help!

 

[Cuore]

You seem to misunderstand: reducing that gap after animation requires remaking the entire walk cycle. It's not pleasant That's the very reason why I need to know now Are you sure it should stay like this? (looks a little bad to me)

 

[HerrDave]

I can fix it by editing the head and adding an under-link between the legs, don't worry about it

 

[Cuore]

Received.

 

[Cuore]

It's a difficult world.
Made 4 legs out of 8, working on the rest.

Spoiler: Spider in here

 

[HerrDave]

Amazing work

 

[Cuore]

Cycle complete.

Spoiler: img spider

 

[Mister_Haudrauf]

@Cuore It actually look's like that you have looked at each of the Spider's animation frames to get this kind of accuracy.

Good job.

 

[Cuore]

Thanks man!