Keyfrane Animation [mildly technical]
This is not a tutorial, but to master it, you must know how it works
The player model has 8 parts:
- Head
- Body
- right/left arm
- legs
- held items
In the future new parts may be added
Each part is independent of the others and has 6 (or 8) degrees of freedom:
- 3 position
- 3 rotation
- 2 bends and bend axis
Each property has its keyframe timeline
You can understand it as a mathematical function that takes the time parameter and returns the property value at that time
The curve is interesting for us, we want to shape that as we want.
Creating arbitrary mathematical functions for one specific curve is extremely difficult and not practical.
Instead, we use keyframes as a guide for the curve, and the animation program will connect these somehow.
The most trivial connection is linear:
Just connect the dots with straight lines!
But this will make our animation very robot-like, and we may want something else.
In real life, to make something start moving suddenly we need infinite force for only an instant. (Dirac-delta)
To make things life-like, we use specific easing functions:
Easings.net
Or Bezier curves (not yet supported in Emotecraft)
