The Chief animation saga continues! Left / right strafe cycles are actually the biggest pain in the ass but I think we're slowly getting there! Also some improvements to the timing of the forward cycle that make it look much better!

Spent Saturday getting started on some brand new animation cycles for Chief! First up a more weighty, grounded forward run! Still some weirdness here and there but it's a solid improvement for one day's work! Hope you guys like! 😁

Working on new animations + movement right now but here's some WIP shots of our AR muzzle flash and energy shields! Coding the health/shield system really made me appreciate the surprising amount of depth behind Halo's mechanics 😅

Been super busy with contract work lately but here are some new additions to my little Halo project (that I've completely re-coded 3 times now 😅)

✅ Feet raise/lower based off elevation

✅ Weapon swapping to/from ground

✅ Xbox controller support

It's been a while since I've shown progress of Chiefy so here's an update!
✅ Weapon switching + unique ammo + reloading (anims WIP)

✅ Aiming up / down based on camera direction (camera tilt coming soon)

✅ Ragdoll upon death + spawn points implemented

UPDATE! Here are some new changes to Chief's character controller! Still lots to do! 😅

✅Move in camera dir.

✅Smoother transitions

✅Variable move speed per anim.

✅Free orbit w/ holding ALT or in idle

✅Right-click ADS (WIP)

✅Camera pos. offset

Spent my Sunday evening polishing off the rest of Chief's movement animations and putting together some anim. blend trees + a basic character controller in Unity! Still lots to add but it's getting there! 😁✨

He smol 

He squat

But most importantly

He run on the spot

WIP animation no. 1 for a small Unity demo I'm making with the Chief! I don't have much free time these days in between contract stuff but I'll hopefully have more to show soon! 😄

Our boy is 100% UV'd and ready for texturing! Ended up with a 128x64px texture for the body and a 128x128px spritesheet for animated facial expressions! I've got some other jobs to finish before I can finish this guy off but I'm excited! ALSO HE BLINKS!

Just a quick lil update to this guy! Been doing work on the topology for clean deformation when I animate him + going through a few different concepts and I'm feeling pretty happy with this fantasy boy design!