Animations being tweaked as we speak

[Ian_Cummings]

Now that we've weathered the bitterness storm and are now back to riding the wave of constructive-ness (I don't think that's a word), I thought I'd update everyone to the progress of our animation improvements after the feedback in the trailer.

Simon is going back through basically all of our locomotion to find the 'problem' run cycles and he'll be spending the next couple of days tweaking and replacing animations. We'll update everyone in a couple of days with progress.

The pass animations are also being swept through for the 'bent knee' issue. I sent these screencaps over to the gameplay/animation team this morning and they are running through the pass animations to fix them. I'll update progress on that as it happens as well.
passes.JPG


On a side note, I knew the changes we were making as a team would gbe cool (in regards to our community involvement), but I never dreamed it could be this awesome - fixing stuff on the fly right alongside the community. I've said it before and I'll say it again - we're basically all making this game together which is quite amazing when you sit back and think of it. I am loving it!





P.S. thread prediction #1: someone will come in and say "OMG EA, you can't tell the animations are bad without us pointing them out? U SUCK 2k RULZ BLAH BLAH BLAH". Who will be the bitter guy to not be appreciative of actually having their input change a game in development?

[Lodeus]

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Good to hear. Cant wait to see the finished product.

[eaglesfan17]

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OMG EA, you can't tell the animations are bad without us pointing them out? U SUCK 2k RULZ BLAH BLAH BLAH

[briax87]

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Great to hear these animations are being worked on, looking forward to seeing the improvements

[pigspigs76]

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wippy!!

[TheWatcher]

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The grass is so healthy and green in that real-life Warner pic...

[CreatineKasey]

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Good stuff. I'm sure it's nice to have this forum as a litmus test for your progress. Slowing the game speed down has me more excited than anything else listed... even pro-tak... which is a close 2nd

[totalownership]

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OMG EA, you can't tell the animations are bad without us pointing them out? U SUCK 2k RULZ BLAH BLAH BLAH

LOL , seriously it's understandable that sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. But you guys are on it now and thats what counts. Looking good fellas, just make sure that you guys stay true to the coach has the advantage at success over the stick jockey.

[Valdarez]

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Not to beat a dead horse Ian (since the horse has yet to be ridden), but can you please respond to the missing frames question? Why does the game look better in slow motion during replay than in real time during game play? Is there anything you can do to address the missing frames?

used to think Madden's graphics were horrible. I still think there are issues with the interaction / transition side of it, but after watching the game in replay those animations are a LOT more fluid and solid than I ever imagined. I'm completely confounded at how a game can looks so solid and fluid in an animation when played at a very slow speed, and then choppy and appear to be dropping frames when played at the actual game speed. How does that happen? I don't know anything about games, but it sure seems like it would be the other way around to me.

To make matters further confusing, anim8tor is talking about dropped frames in the replays, and I'm not seeing any dropped frames in the replays on my console. I see them in the game itself, when I'm playing it. When I do replays, and slow the game down, Madden is beautiful to watch. Far better than I ever imagined.

I would love to hear why frames appear to drop, or are missing, from the gameplay and what (if anything) they can do to fix it. After two weeks of posting detailed feedback on this subject, as good of a break down as I can give in my spare time anyhow, no one has considered it worthwhile enough to answer.

Quote taken from ---> http://www.operationsports.com/forum...mation-28.html

[Quickondastickz]

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Loving all the feedback. Thanks for updating every chance you get. This is the best support fans have ever gotten from a developing team i believe. Never seen anything like it. I appreciate it big time as well as others.

[davep]

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Nice, thanks!

For the record, a majority of the comments seem to be constructive....there's just a few under-medicated bad apples.

[g2thecore]

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Good job as always Ian. I can't wait to see the improvements.

On a side note, are we getting a blog today?

[DubTrey1]

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Glad tosee the involvement with the community in order to get this game to the level we know it can be.... props Ian.

[Guffers]

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Ian the interaction you guys are providing is just awesome. Each day I log in and find more updates from you I get a little more excited each time. Quite simply I just want to say 'Thank you' August cannot arrive quickly enough.

[tmulk]

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P.S. thread prediction #1: someone will come in and say "OMG EA, you can't tell the animations are bad without us pointing them out? U SUCK 2k RULZ BLAH BLAH BLAH". Who will be the bitter guy to not be appreciative of actually having their input change a game in development?

This alone gets you a thumbs-up in my book. Keep up the great work.