Thats quite a lot to do, good luck! and i cant wait for it to come out!

Originally posted by zarby$:

Thats quite a lot to do, good luck! and i cant wait for it to come out!

It is a lot, though it sounds like even more on paper. Most of those sections will be pretty straightforward, IF everything goes according to plan. But I'm confident it should work out, since I've been using both the "Woggles" race mod and the vanilla penguin race as a template, so being able to cross reference their assets has been insanely helpful.

Honestly the only part I'm really dreading is making the armor, but I'm going to reuse as much as humanly possible from my original dwarf mod to save time. While my motivation to work on this waxes and wanes, I'm currently on an upswing lol, so trying to capitalize on that and power through as much as of it as I can!

Dont forget to take brakes

Originally posted by zarby$:

Dont forget to take brakes

Lol thank you! Though I admit I'm guilty of taking nothing but breaks lately in regards to working on this mod...


That said, I do want to finish off the front and back arm files, because they'll be relatively easy to do, and once that's done it will be a big "moment of truth" where I can actually test the new body shape and hitbox. Either I will have done everything correctly and my hitbox calculations were correct, or I failed spectacularly and my dwarf will look like a pile of random body parts bouncing all over the screen

*Insert Professor Farnsworth Meme*

Good news, everyone!

I finally got around to finishing the front/back arms for the True Dwarf mod, and while things weren't perfect, my calculations were more or less correct, and the new 2x3 block hitbox works. From there, it took me another 2 days of messing around with the body parts and tweaking things, but now both the male and female body animations are at a point where I'm 95% satisfied that they look smooth. The remaining 5% is just a few minor adjustments I need to make so that the body/head/arms align correctly across all the "idle" stances for the various player personalities you can select at character creation.

Beyond that, weapons and other active hand items seem to line up correctly, so no further adjustments will be needed on that front. As such, I'll be able to proceed with creating armor/clothing to fit the new dwarf body shape, which will be the last major hurdle to overcome.

As I've mentioned before, I've been referencing the Woggle race as a rough guide. But that mod uses custom 39x39 pixel frames for the body, whereas I opted to keep the default 43x43 pixel frames used by vanilla races, and just shifted everything down by 4 pixels. This should make things easier on me in the long run, because all standard armor uses those same 43x43 frames. Thus in order to make a vanilla helmet or back item fit my True Dwarves, all I have to do is create a version of that helmet/cape where the image is shifted down 4 pixels, and it will align correctly. Torso & leg armor will be a little trickier because I also shortened those limbs, but all in all it won't be so bad to re-design those.

Ok, so I didn't start into armor yet, but I decided since I was changing so much already, I wanted to make a more interesting head, instead of just continuing to use the apex head with recolored eyes. So I ultimately made more work for myself, because that also necessitated redoing all of the emotes, which in turn made me need to redo some of the beards so that said emotes are (mostly) visible. But that is all done now, and I am pretty pleased with the results! Interestingly, I replaced the "annoyed" emote with a totally new design that causes the player to generate a thought bubble that indicates they are thinking about beer, in proper dwarven fashion.

I also ended up doing a number of tweaks/reworks for pretty much all the body animations, to make things smoother and more realistic looking. I even hilariously decided to try and add "boob physics" to the femme dwarf model's run and jump animations. This was mostly just a skill challenge to see if I could pull it off, which I think I did...?

Anyway, now that I am well and truly satisfied with how the base character models look, I will be diving into the armor/clothing redesign in earnest. Especially as I will have a lessening of responsibilities on my plate in the next week or so with school letting out for the summer. So I intend to make use of that to make some serious headway on this project, and hopefully launch it sometime in the next 2-3 months.

Hello there!

Didn't you think about posting some short videos on Youtube with progrssion? For example: running and jumping of a dwarf. I would like to watch it!

Thanks

Originally posted by Freemov:

Hello there!

Didn't you think about posting some short videos on Youtube with progrssion? For example: running and jumping of a dwarf. I would like to watch it!

Thanks :tinder:

Hey there! So I've never posted anything to Youtube before, but that probably wouldn't be a bad idea... and it's not like it would take much extra time; I could just screen record while I'm testing animations, which I have to do anyway. But I'll see what I can do during my next modding session, thanks for the idea!

Hey, I am hyped for this! Any progress since summer? :O

Also: DIGGY DIGGY HOLE! :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU