{"author_name":"Gipzo","cat":"LD #37","comments":[{"author_name":"MrErdalUral","time":"December 16, 2016 5:22 am","epoch":1481883720,"text":"I wish I had a chance to see this before the jam. We did some similar combat mechanic but not quite as good looking. Any chance you share the source?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 16, 2016 6:30 am","epoch":1481887800,"text":"MrErdalUral, I don&#8217;t think source will do any help &#8211; it have a lot of spaghetti code <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><br \/>\n But I can share some details if you want to know \ud83d\ude09","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 16, 2016 1:02 pm","epoch":1481911320,"text":"This feature is pretty cool and useful! Good job \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1481881800,"likes":20,"metadata":{"p_key":"968","p_author":"Gipzo","p_authorkey":"32280","p_urlkey":"35815","p_title":"Running out of hands","p_cat":"LD #37","p_event":"LD37","p_time":"1481881800","p_likes":"20","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"32280","us_name":"Gipzo","us_username":"gipzo","event_start":"1481241600","event_key":"81","event_name":"Ludum Dare 37"},"text":"<p>Hello darians,<\/p>\n <p>I would like to share one neat trick with you from our game, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-37\/?action=preview&amp;uid=32280\">Cure4Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n <p>Our artist didn&#8217;t have much experience in pixel art and in pixel art animation, unfortunately.<\/p>\n <p>So we decided not to draw and animate player&#8217;s hands.<br \/>\n We thought that it would look OK as some pixel games look awesome without hands (Nuclear Throne, for example).<\/p>\n <p>Well, we was wrong. This looks very bad in our art style:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-600561\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/no-hands2.gif\" alt=\"no-hands2\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n <p>So I tried to add some arms and it was way better:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-600562\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/with-hands.gif\" alt=\"with-hands\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n <p>As I&#8217;m a bit lazy to animate it frame-by-frame. It is also difficult as you can rotate weapons in any direction.<br \/>\n I tried to use Unity&#8217;s LineRenderer to create thick black lines as arms. And add two sprites as hands.<br \/>\n It took about 10 minutes to setup and\u00a0voil\u00e0 &#8211; nice\u00a0convincing arms, that are animated with any weapon <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-600560\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/line-renderer.gif\" alt=\"line-renderer\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n <p>P.S. If you&#8217;re interested in details about our game &#8211; feel free to ask in game comments \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/unity3d\/\" rel=\"tag\">unity3d<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 16th, 2016 4:50 am","title":"Running out of hands"}