Project Violet

Hello! Project Violet is a hack n' slash (or beat em up with swords) that will be mission based and have various combos and magic attacks you can mix in with the combat. In between missions you'll be able to use points to upgrade her combos, stats, magic powers and sword's strength. As of now not much is done, just working on the main character's mesh as someone works on the code for now


Current goal:
-make a small demo with 2 enemy blocks, and the main character on a simple surface with a simple health bar hud

Progress
here's some concept work for the main character


This is my current work on the mesh.



this is the new mesh i'm workin on for her, it's different from the one in my collab thread. For now I'm finishing her up and my scripter is working with a dummy mesh to get the demo level scripted out.

 

Trying to decide whether or not to go with more of a chibi-like character style or stick with this. I do know that I'm going to simplify the head a bit, since it doesn't really make sense to redo the entire mesh.

 

Game concept sounds promising, I'm not a fan of that style art so I cant really be of help there. hope it turns out well!

 

thank you for the support!

 

I agree, the head looks overly complex in comparison to the concept art...you may just want to have the eyes/lips/faces as a texture rather than modeling the geometry.

 

Here's an update on the mesh. It's rigged, but still has some deforming and clipping issues. I want to add the belt and the flowing cloth on her left leg, but unsure exactly how to. She isn't textured yet, but will be soon.

I reused an older mesh with better topology, removed some unnecessary loops from her arms and torso. Her armor is included with the one mesh, with any geometry under the armor completely removed, since it isn't visible anyway.

Also, the sword is modeled out too. Forgot to mention that before.

ed out too. Forgot to mention that before.

 

still messing with her mesh, having some trouble with her shoulderpad. Can't figure out a way to get it to move without deforming so much.

 

there's a slight problem with her arms, when I rig them, no matter what the weight, it always stretches her side in a way that looks wierd

 

Not reallly familiar with Blender, but I would think the shoulderpads would not be soft binded to multiple joints, and only weighted to one (the shoulder) joint because it is a metal surface.

Set your bone influence maximum to 2 joints/bones per vertex and it will make weighting easier.

 

ah, so like...extrude a separate bone for the shoulderpads themselves that'll rotate with the arm or something?

 

This looks promising, you just started the project then?

 

Well...just started it's actual development, I've been fiddling with all the features and gameplay ideas on paper. thanks for the support

 

You should already have a shoulder bone on your rig just from having arms....

Weight the all the vertices of the shoulder pad to that bone.

If this is giving you problems, perhaps you should focus on solid character rigging before diving into a full game

 

Hey RayCruxis, I like the anime-style, especially shown in your character sketch, reminds me of ONO Regarding your immediate goal, what do you mean by "enemy blocks"?

Best regards,
Iván

 

Ah, I do have a shoulder bone, I thought you meant a bone separate from that itself. Dunno why I haven't tried that yet.

I mean a simple enemy cube type prefab to test ai and damage scripts. Thank you for the support!

 

progress has come to a halt, as I've been very busy, though I will pick up soon