Character animation effects

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi everyone!

Does anyone have an idea how something like this can be implemented?

I mean, there are three things I’m interested in this video:

  1. How is pseudo 3D implemented? May be some engine…
  2. How the character animation itself is implemented? I mean the way it moves, jumps, etc. I doesn’t look like the sprite animation.
  3. How can I make these particles fall on the ground when the character’s jumping, and this nice white steam?

Update: sorry, this question should have been posted to the newbies forum.

#2

  1. There is no info so it’s just guessing…

  2. The animation can be done easily with Spine. If you have minimal understanding of 3D and perspectives you can create a 3Dness in your animations. 

  3. The particle falling off seems to interact with the floor so it means it is a physical body and not just some spritesheet animation. You can implement a simple particle emitter at the creatures ass and emit particles upon collision with the floor. Alternativily you can have a look at ready 3rd party libraries that provide a particle egine (for example Particle Candy but there are free alternatives as well I just don’t recall their names…)

  4. the steam/smoke as well can be done using an emitter that emits these particles ones you jump.

All in all I think these are very basic things, I think the more complicated thing would be to implement the moving/zooming camera view and make it look natural… But that’s also possible…

#3

Thanks a lot!

#4

  1. There is no info so it’s just guessing…

  2. The animation can be done easily with Spine. If you have minimal understanding of 3D and perspectives you can create a 3Dness in your animations. 

  3. The particle falling off seems to interact with the floor so it means it is a physical body and not just some spritesheet animation. You can implement a simple particle emitter at the creatures ass and emit particles upon collision with the floor. Alternativily you can have a look at ready 3rd party libraries that provide a particle egine (for example Particle Candy but there are free alternatives as well I just don’t recall their names…)

  4. the steam/smoke as well can be done using an emitter that emits these particles ones you jump.

All in all I think these are very basic things, I think the more complicated thing would be to implement the moving/zooming camera view and make it look natural… But that’s also possible…

#5

Thanks a lot!