I'm building a new animation system in my actual project, and it performed so well, that I'm proud of it and need to show it to the world

The character is bodyless. It's like that because of creative, story and gameplay reasons. This isn't the main character, it's just an NPC.

A rush of inspiration came after seeing my NPC move like this, even if animations aren't polished at all

As you can see, the big pro is the ability to interpolate from the actual position to the next keyframe, removing the need of making pose-to-pose extra animations, and letting the engine take care of it. Of course, it ain't hard to do this stuff, but it takes some time to develop a good editor and make it easy to use.

Here's a screen of the unorganized, undetailed editor, but that can be arranged my moving the windows:

{"name":"600585","src":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/e\/1\/e1926ee2e41b5f11f91b5511633b3b95.jpg","w":1024,"h":619,"tn":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/e\/1\/e1926ee2e41b5f11f91b5511633b3b95"}

Most of you should've figured out by now how the engine works by watching the video and the screenshot. Note each object supports playing their own animations by changing the bitmap(watch for the character blinking in idle animation).

Do you think it's a cool system to develop characters and other objects in a game? It saves me a lot of time from rendering various animations, and it has performed great so far. I'd like to hear from any cool addition you might think off(don't even think about skeletal animations )

If I was a "rich" game developer I would hire you!

Amazing stuff in my opinion, and tbh a higher degree calibre than I am used to seeing.

love it. i was working on somthing just like it my demo was hard coded and not as nice looking as yours.

i also wanted to take it a step forward and have 3d modle to 2d sprite so i can have any view i wanted and also re-use animation used bone animation

Whoa! Nice work!

I also wanted to take it a step forward and capture 3d models using bone animation to 2d sprites so I could easily have any pose I wanted.

Google Translate is teh awesome!!111

Yeah, that dario is tha man. Impressive works, keep it going !

Reminds me of something someone in my class would make with Flash+ActionScript.
I mean the parts themselves don't animate huh? They just move around a body...force?
Guess it could be like Rayman then Nice game that was.

I concur with everyone else. Top notch stuff!

One cool idea came to my mind while watching the video. It'd be neat if the character's body bounced a little when he goes to prone. As if he hits the ground really hard and fast and so his whole body bounces upward just a little bit. Just a little extra detail to make it smooth and realistic.

Truly impressive! do you have a game of yours already using these animations? BTW, what GUI are you using? did you write the GUI yourself?

Man, what did you use to write it? Like, which libraries I mean? DirectX? Allegro? none of the above?

sigh I could never hope to be that awesome... =/. Just the physics system of your animations impressed me. Man, I don't even know the definition of interpolation... Scratch that, looked it up.

You wrote something this awesome? Oi... I knew I was a noob in comparison to the majority of the people here, but thats way out of my league man. I guess all I can say is keep up the great work, eh?

-cheat

@cheatscanner: I appreciate the praise, but it shouldn't be directed to me. I'm not much of an experienced programmer(not even close to how awesome some guys are here, who have had years of professional experience). And this system isn't anything overly complex. I think most of the people that saw it here has a pretty good idea of how it works. And there's something I read once in these forums that's really good advice:

Credits go to bamccaig for the quote, though Thomas gave the idea first
This was the case with this animation system. I think I've had the concept for it for quite a time, but never got the motivation to program it.

Hehe, did I tell you the powers the player will obtain during the game? Are you a mind reader or something? (except for the flying part )

This happened to me way too much over these years. It happened some days ago with this video. That's way out of my league too, but someday I'll try to best it.

Get out of my mind Tomoso You're freaking me out

Thanks m c. I wish I've been more busy programming these days. I'm enjoying my last days of holidays, so I haven't made much progress. I need to get a map editor running now.