A shift in the report. Rooster's 3rd Hscene and UI.

Heyo everyone! Due to some small snags, I have decided to make a side-step in the schedule, and shift this week to animating Rooster's 3rd Hscene instead. Zol'gan 2's level design will likely come in the following week here. I would also like to say that implementation of the new UI overhaul has begun!

Let's get into it, aye?

To start off, as you can see... the position in this Hscene is... unique.

 The scene has some kinda awkward rigging, and a few fun control parameters.

Rooster will always hang on to the pillow... and sometimes chew on it.

The phone angle would still need to move, but rigging on it's own wouldn't really do the trick, so i did that through control parameters as well.

With that... I combine it all into the base animations:

Idle:

Base Loop:

And a faster variation, of course:

There is an extra control parameter in here as well to give a bit of an X-ray as well if the player wants.

This part may be improved upon, however.

With that, I don't totally want to leave you in the dark for Zol'gan 2, so I will post a couple in-game screen shots to give the sense of the aesthetic at least.

These screenshots are a version that is being reworked a bit, mind you.

Finally:

I'm happy to show off some of the planned UI changes.

I had to write up some scripts and add a bit of animation, but the main menu is pretty much complete here. Do note that the background in the "Select Loadout" screen will be swapped out, as it is currently just a placeholder for reference.

Expect to see more on these UI components in the coming weeks. There is a lot to implement, so I might not be able to get it all in this build, but I should be able to get a good chunk of it.

With that, next week is going to be focused on Zol'gan2 level design (hopefully for real this time, ahaha).

Thanks again everyone! I'll catch you all then.

-Regulus