Hello everyone!
Time for a new report.
Progress has been slow on my end as you can see…
not my fault though…
well, yes and no. I mean
it’s my fault for believing in what people says about UE5 but
it’s not my fault how UE5 behaves when I try to make the stuff people and Epic says it’s perfectly done in UE5.
More specific:
one of the reasons I took the decision to make the characters the way they are (including remaking Julia) was
because I didn’t have to care about the animations since UE5 include the all-mighty IK Retargeter. This feature allows one to
perfectly retarget all the animations one wants between different skeletons… or so they say.
I could have hundreds of examples to show, since
NOT A SINGLE animation was properly retargeted from the old Julia, but
I just didn’t want to talk about this in a report, because it’s not any good news… but since it’s been weeks since my last report and now that
I’m almost finished fixing this mess, I decided to write you about this and not without a proof.
You can see in the video the difference between the UE5 retargeting and the one I have to manually make externally. [
Looks like youtube is fuck*ng with the age restriction forcing it even if it's turned off and the video is censored. if you want to see the video, take a look at the attachment]
So that’s what I’ve been doing,
manually retargeting more than 150 animations (yeah,
I don’t know how Julia had so many animations already lol).
I feel like I’ve been lied, and
this lie costed me weeks of work I should have spent progressing in the game, making new animations (like the ones you’re all waiting for), etc. and not retargeting the animations from the old Julia to the new, one by one…
But oh well, what’s done it’s done and
not everything is bad, since thanks to this I fixed some small problems here and there and also made some improvements in code as well as making some new animations for that one system that wasn’t added into the Arena (something to do with that bar that filled up with no effect) … At least some good news!
And now, it’s time to get back to work!
Much love everyone
Until next time with only good news (I hope ).
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