[GALLERY] cad's craptacular creations

They look a bit boring and uninspired to be honest with you, they need more emphasis on force and some slightly faster/accented movements. I guess I can cut you some slack seeing as you don't do FP Animations much these days anymore (at least to my/our knowledge) but I'll give you my run-down anyhow:

Ready- Simple enough, I'm alright with that, but the vents could close a bit sooner. Right now it seems like the animation ends and then the vents close, like it was tacked on last minute.
Melee- Pretty good, though it seems like you struggled a bit with the right arm and its rotation due to how far out the gun is. Clean it up a bit, perhaps a bit of frame-by-frame animating to fix the snapping/clipping issues before/during the melee, and then when it's going back down to origin. Speaking of the return to origin, I'm not too fond of how it just kind of 'slides' into the origin while all the other animations have a bit of bounce to them. Idea itself doesn't get you many points either, but I suppose there's only so many ways you can wack people with a gun...in Halo.
Throw-Grenade- The hand kind of just 'flings' itself from top to bottom, there doesn't seem to be any wrist rotation at all and it makes it look like you're just clawing the air rather than throwing a grenade billions of yards. Gun movement is nice, but the return to origin looks like you just put the first frames in backwards instead of adding something from complete scratch that's noticeably different from the first half of the animation.
Fire-1- Not really much to say here.
Reload- Again, kind of lacking any interesting motion. It's more of an animation for a reload just to have one, rather than something that the player would actually take notice of and be like "Hey, that's kind of neat." I think you should make a bit of gun recoil when the 'mag' pops out too as well as the hood flying up like you have. There's lots of room for a more detailed return to origin as well, something more eye-catching and fitting to the animation instead of the little kind of 'bob' you have which lasts only about 3 frames or so.

All in all though it's still a nice set, but nothing too spectacular (even with a Reach weapon). The execution of each animation is still nicely balanced and doesn't look like someone completely inexperienced/out of it for months did it, it's mainly the ideas that are really lacking.

credit to con for the emp particle bitmap

Is your timer started immediately or after first bounce (I want to know if first bounce actually works before I mess with my tag too much)? Also, nice shaders and effects. If you use a timer-based explosion for the standard, then increase for a bit longer; the standard doesn't bounce high enough.

The projectile speed seems a little slow. Is that how it is in Reach?

The animations are a bit sloppy at the end of the reload imo.

reload was actually taken from my previous grenade launcher set (just edited it to use a horizontal foregrip configuration as opposed to vertical). I'm doing a new one because frankly, i don't like it that much either and its a bit too long for practical use.

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Originally Posted by Amit

The projectile speed seems a little slow. Is that how it is in Reach?

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It may be a bit faster in Reach, but increase the speed too much and you have issues with the bounce going out of proportion in height. I have mine set at 14 for the initial and I might even decrease it further.

can it do the...holdy....waity thing?

No fire-1 animation?

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Originally Posted by Heathen

can it do the...holdy....waity thing?

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Not sure if that's possible with standard Halo 1 tagging.

Because the weapon only has one round per mag, it plays the reload-empty animation immediately when you fire, cutting into the fire animation. What i shouldve done was integrate the fire animation into the reload (like the stock RL animations), but i figured this set was placeholder anyways.