Maximum Wonk

What happens when your character is controlled by physics and you turn all the joint anchors off...

Added some tutorial signposts and speech bubbles to my wonky witch game. Features like this take a long time and can feel pretty minor, but having things to talk to in the game makes the whole thing feel more alive!

BEHOLD THE SQUIGGLE

Our lovely Wonch now has some flashy spells she can cast to defend herself.  Super fun designing the particle effects for these in Unity!

Took my wonky witch model from last October and turned her into a platformer protagonist!

Just pacing around, waiting for October.

pls don’t look at me ~

little leg.

Being able to knock around objects in the scene is one of the top benefits of a physics-based-animation system like this.  Obstacles also naturally impede motion, so creatures getting stuck or stumbling as they push stuff around is a big bonus.

The system uses all physics and inverse kinematics to move the little bird feet, resulting in some wiggly but endearing movement.

Mama and bb birds checkin out a snack.  An old gif from my physics/ik experiments I never shared.

This uses PID controllers to apply torques to all his body parts, which can add a lot of wobbly personality.  Sometimes too much.  But now the model will try to maintain the posture set by their IK system, while being fully, physically responsive.  

Still want to get the whole system physics responsive, but feeling proud of the progress 🤩

Had to take a minute to reign in dev goals, but now our wonky friends have a new home.

Need several creatures to represent multiple body shapes and leg counts.  Hopefully this’ll help me craft a balance and walking scheme that works with lots of different animals.  More to come!

WONKTOBER #10 - Someone’s got toes!  Ended up being important for making sure his feet point the right way while his legs do their thing.  Now his dance skills are even more wonky.

I realized my previous movement system was breaking all sorts of physics rules that inevitably caused major problems (i.e. constantly exploding).  So this neat fellow now moves using joint torques.  I built a little script just to point his limbs in a given direction, already pretty amusing tbh.