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DMC 5 - Feminine Animations for Dante (long post)
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Demo video (in case embed doesn't work): https://drive.google.com/file/d/10rPi3SxgtaBC6BMYv-5J1rhomtzY4RuV/view?usp=sharing
This is my current progress of the feminine animations mod for Dante. I made this a while ago back when I first released my Bella mod, but I'm still having second thoughts about releasing this publicly.
There were many animations replaced including walking, running, sprinting, jogging and idles. I'm currently still wondering whether or not I should change to the walking animation to another one since there seems to be a slight stutter at the end of the animation loop despite being the same animation as the walking one in my V animation mod. Both their female walk cycle was taken from a game called MIR 4, retargeted to V/Dante's skeleton and then edited to reduce some body clipping. I don't know if I should try getting another smoother walk cycle or not, because if I do, it will delay the mod for public release much longer.
The first idle animation can be seen in the first minute of the video. This replaces the original cross arm meditation? animation from Dante, where he crosses his arms and closes and opens his eyes every now and then. The custom one is quite similar anyways, the character will look at their hands and then place their hands on their hips.
The second idle animation can be seen from 6:04 onwards, this is the longer idle animation of the two that Dante has. In this custom animation, the character will look around and stand in various poses, turn around to check their surroundings, and bend over to look around. There seems to be some shoulder problems in this one, I'm unsure if I could fix this because the animations don't seem to show the shoulder problem in Blender, but somehow it shows up in-game.
Issues/problems with movement animation modding:
Unfortunately, there can be a problem with the sprinting animation, because Capcom always blends sprinting animations with separate incline movement animations when your character is running on a upward/downward incline. This can cause a weird glitchy issue where your character starts sliding upwards or downwards. And it only happens when you run uphill or downhill, never on flat surfaces. Here is an example of this issue:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y1if3uznUqlO1UN0DyBxhGzZLubp-Tcb/view?usp=sharing
I am sadly not qualified enough to speak with an authoritative POV, but I believe it may have something to do with the motfsm and behaviour tree files, none of which I know enough about, hence I cannot currently fix it.
As for Vergil:
I've noticed a lot of mods on DMC5 Nexus has changed Vergil's combat mechanics, and some of these combat mechanic changes such as longer window for Judgement Cuts or dodges actually change their animation .motlist files. This is going to be a big problem unfortunately, because within the same motlist file, Vergil's walking and running animation are also contained in it.
So if I make a feminine animations mod for Vergil, what's going to happen is that it will not be compatible with any mods that also changes Vergil's Judgement Cut windows, dodge iframes etc. Personally, I might be able to accommodate only a couple of versions of Vergil's feminine animation mod; maybe a slightly longer window for JC and a slightly longer window for air tricks. But I will not be able to accommodate several dozens of versions with differing JC frames and dodge iframes. Such is the compromises that we have to make.
Comments
Xezeros
I haven't really started for Vergil yet but probably at the end of this month. I might use a different Idle stance compared to Dante but not too sure. The idle events will still be the same though.
Janeaba
These look good imo. Any word on if you might release the Vergil animations?
