Everyone thought the prospect of individual flight animations was the bee’s knees (or wings). It was tested for a bit, and everyone bitched about not being able to choose an alternative — at which point it was pulled …<\/p>\n
… and may not be back. Castle quotes the Animators:<\/p>\n
\nHere\u00c2\u2019s the deal. Originally we wanted to put alternate flight poses in purely as additional flavor. Nothing more really than the alternate idle cycles that are already in game, like crossing your arms, putting your hands on your hips, etc. This is why there were random to begin with. When we put them up on the training room, it became clear very quickly that you guys saw them as more than just random variations. For a lot of you, these poses defined your character\u2019s attitude and style in a way that was outside
\nof your control. In reaction to that we tried to make them selectable in the only method that we had, which was to make them sequential rather than random. We weren\u2019t really happy with that solution, and a lot of you guys weren\u2019t either. So we took a step back and re-examined it from a broader perspective.<\/p>\nHere was the opportunity to give another layer of character customization to everyone. Rather than implement the quick and easy solution, we wanted to hold off on it until we could implement the right solution. It wasn\u2019t because of people whining about them on the forums, those people had legitimate concerns. There were issues that we couldn\u2019t resolve in time before Issue 8 was going live. Instead of holding back Issue 8 to resolve them or just leaving them in the state they were in and impacting a good number
\nof players in a very negative way, we pulled them out of Issue 8. We haven\u2019t completely shelved the idea of a custom animation system, but in lieu of the Inventions system, Task Forces, and other things that we\u2019ve been working on for Issue 9 and Issue 10, a custom animation system has a much smaller impact on the game as a whole. Because of this, it\u2019s gotten pushed back in the list of priorities. I can\u2019t say when we\u2019ll do it at this point. I can\u2019t even say that it\u2019s something even possible or feasible to do at
\nthis point. I can pretty comfortably say that there are things coming in Issue 9, 10, and beyond that are much more exciting and will impact everyone who plays the game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nOr maybe they will …<\/p>\n
However, there is some good news here. We didn\u2019t think it would be possible to create these alternate flight animations as an emote. Emote animations have to be limited in what they can interrupt as well as be interruptible by core animations, such as movement or attack powers. I had a flash of insight the other day about this though, and I believe I have figured out a way to set these up so they can be triggered via an emote but still function in the way they need to. I\u2019ve tested this internally
\nand it seems to work fine, but I can\u2019t test all of the permutations. We\u2019re treading into somewhat risky waters by allowing an animation to trump a core movement animation. The way this will work is if you turn on flight and start flying forward (using autorun works best in this case), you can enter the emote name and your character will transition in the alternate fly forward animation. I think this resolves all of the issues we had with it originally. It won\u2019t interrupt hover, what you see on your system is
\nwhat everyone will see on their system, and it\u2019s completely optional and selectable by the player. You will be able to use the one you like or not use it at all.<\/p>\nWe won\u2019t be re-adding the banking animations which were basically an attempt to do a flying strafe. We also won\u2019t be introducing the no-strafe movement on player characters. This is only the alternate fly forward animations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which would still be cool …<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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