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Sneak Peek: Human Token Parts + Animation

Added 2024-11-09 16:14:17 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone!

Humans won the last poll so full steam ahead!

Today, I wanted to show off some of the next token parts! These will take longer to finish than the Goblins or Skeletons, but it should be absolutely worth it in the long run! Bear with me while I try to explain my thought process here and the evolution that's going to take place!

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So for Goblins and Skeletons, one major thing that didn't matter much was Gender. Now, if you want to create NPC's or player characters with these parts, you're going to want to choose different body shapes. This limitation with the previous system would have meant lots of headaches with clothes not fitting or drawing duplicates of certain things. Not ideal.

In addition the static pose is fine but has some issues in that everything sort of looks the same even with the skin changes and clothing changes.

Lastly, certain bits like bags and accessories would ideally be drawn under the body and becasue everything was merged this wasnt really possible without cutting things out of bags and other elements.

In any case, I made the following changes;

New Chest Layer
New Chest Clothes
New Arms Layer (Each arm is made up of three parts, Hand, Forearm and Pectoral)
New Legs Layer
New Legs Clothes
New Feet Layer (2 Feet)
New Shoes (2 shoes)

This means a few things. Firstly it makes all the above much easier and solves a bunch of problems!

It does mean more work to set things up on my end (I spent all day today on getting the chest and face looking right) but once I have them done I can change the skin color on all these and we can really start cooking, it should be totally worth it!!

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Animation!

The other major aspect of making this change is that the pose is now fully adjustable! (Apart from the legs atm) By rotating the chest, head, arms and weapons all idpendatly of each other you can have the token character do different things, such as standing still, attacking or looking around!

This is a game changer, and not only will these be posable but it opens up the door to animation! I'll be tackling this myself, and this will be fully compatible with the Ember animation we are working on over at Foundry as well!

I'm super excited to continue working on these, let me know what you would like to see and what you think about this change! :D

~Caeora