FPS Rig Showcase

[ac-arcana]

I just wanted to show off an FPS rig I set up. It uses a couple of animations as well as IK.

https://youtu.be/7vry0TqWIW4

Of course I haven't set up shooting yet, which is kind of important...

[ac-arcana]

The only thing I found kind of awkward for my set up, was that I needed to call functions instead of animations, so the equip animation for example, is just a function call with no other data, since the pose is mostly driven by IK.

[ac-arcana]

Something I'd like to note for practical use. When I updated the project that contained this to the latest version of COGITO the animations that I added to the player's Wieldable Animation Player were all lost. Not a big deal to me at all, but this may cause problems for others. If I added a lot of wieldables it could get tedious to always recreate the animations...

[ac-arcana]

Well I just discovered you can save animations as resources, this will make it a bit easier to re-add them after updates than I had thought

[Phazorknight]

Super, super cool and impressive!
Wanted to look into something like this myself but hadn't had the time yet. Doesn't help that you can't that easily bring in FBX animations into Godot4. But I'm very interested in trying to attempt more procedural animations.

Just as a heads up: I'm planning on reworking the Wieldable Nodes, moving the Animations inside of them for increased modularity. The idea is that the Wieldables will handle and manage all their animations themselves. Will update you once I got a new commit.

[ac-arcana]

There is a way you can use blender to make animation libraries using mixamo animations in Godot 4. I'm using it for this, but also using IK on top of it.

This video is a tutorial on how to make the animation libraries.

https://youtu.be/xGHgA5oftxY?si=hh3uZg4iyvznab3e

I appreciate the heads up and I'm in agreement with the changes you've suggested. I'll be able to modify my system to adapt to your changes 👍

Also my models are just base models to be built upon. I made them in Blender. I'm willing to contribute them and the code for it if you want to include it in Cogito. It would need some reworking of course and I would wait for the rest of the major changes with wieldables to be done first.

[Phazorknight]

Just to follow up a bit: There's now an update to Wieldables in BETA 202402.10 / 1294c8c

[ac-arcana]

Awesome update. I see quite a bit of work went into breaking up the different types of items into their own classes. I think the result is much more readable, easier to understand when creating items, and easier to extend. Awesome!