Apologies for the size of this gif, but you can see this in practice, look at how natural the wind up to the vault looks and how naturally she transitions from the stumble back into the sprint:
Absolutely love hilarious bugs so hopefully this happens once or twice.
It would be much more prominent in other games. Vaulting is usually one of the jankiest looking actions in games when compared to the rest of the stuff you can do.
ND's characters are stylized but at this point the animation is pretty much spot on. I can see how that creates an uncanny valley effect, there's a moment during the party where Ellie makes an expression that makes her look exactly like Ashley Johnson.
Knowing Ellie's naming skills (Callus) I'm not optimistic about this.
Yea so I can see how that creates uncanny valley because she goes from looking like her actress to looking like the character.
Naughty Dog keeps raising the bar. Best studio in the industry, bar none.
Gameplay facial animation
This is meant to be a response to that, though. Playing back discrete animations takes control away from the player (classic example being stuff like Tomb Raider or Flashback, where a whole animation cycle has to play out before a new one starts), but Motion Matching is designed to allow the system to respect player input and figure out how the player character would get there, animation-wise, so it allows for more responsiveness than most modern animation systems in that regard. It still results in a character that is somewhat bound to realistic physicality, so it might be less responsive, say, than games like Bayonetta where your character pirouettes on a dime and moves in ways no human can, but those are games that are not largely using a lot of mocap in the gameplay in the first place.
I just noticed that Ellie's switchblade is sticking out of her pocket! Such nice details!Apologies for the size of this gif, but you can see this in practice
1. How natural the wind up to the vault looks, in spite of the fact that barely a second beforehand she was reacting to a bullet flying past her head. Usually there would be a conflict that creates some "jank."
2. Despite stumbling multiple times throughout the gif there's always a very natural transition back into the sprint
Alright, I'm done here. I thought I was being very civil and simply explaning the point of view that someone shared, and was being mocked for, as not completely unfounded or unfair. Your whole post screams "unnecessary negativity". We are just talking about toys and which ones we prefer, man.
Seeing that Motion Matching require a huge amount of motion capture data to work properly, I don't see indie games using the technology at all, even mid-tier games. I think Unity's trying to move toward larger studios, as evidenced by their recent push in rendering technologies and hires.
Really? I see it as hugely enabling. Just rent a motion capture studio for some hours and perform your dance-cards and import it into the game. I mean, the GDC session demonstrated 4 hours of work vs estimated 4 months of work to get fully functioning character animation/controls.
I can see it leading to some animation priority issues the would feel laggy. Hopefully ND has that kind of stuff worked out though.
He's also the one who made the video showing off input response times in RDR2 versus a few other games.
