I'm deciding whether a mechanical animation system should be built on a current state plus deltas, or modeled against an absolute offsets.

State plus delta is the easiest to model correctly but suffers from error accumulation, noise, and inability to jump to a given state.

Absolute offsets (like the normal Unity animation rigging does) allows jumping directly to given states and can participate in constraints. It can also suffer from error accumulation and introduces modelling oddities.

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I've been adding lots of materials that you can get looting enemies. Each material adds unique buffs and penalties to the armor/weapons you craft with them, adding long term goals for the players to craft the perfect build!

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This long-dead giant found a new purpose in his new un-life. Skeletons like this one are rare but powerful creatures.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4102770/Slay_the_Q/
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Land of Twilight, r/ballongo, oil, 2025

Pixel art done by Ballongo at r/Art.
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Land of Twilight, r/ballongo, oil, 2025

Pixel art done by Ballongo at r/Art.
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Land of Twilight, r/ballongo, oil, 2025

Pixel art done by Ballongo at r/Art.
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Land of Twilight, r/ballongo, oil, 2025

Pixel art done by Ballongo at r/Art.
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A moment of silence before the storm. Pixel art made for the "On the road with clouds" local challenge

Pixel art done by LegendaryBready at r/PixelArt.
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A moment of silence before the storm. Pixel art made for the "On the road with clouds" local challenge

Pixel art done by LegendaryBready at r/PixelArt.
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A moment of silence before the storm. Pixel art made for the "On the road with clouds" local challenge

Pixel art done by LegendaryBready at r/PixelArt.
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A moment of silence before the storm. Pixel art made for the "On the road with clouds" local challenge

Pixel art done by LegendaryBready at r/PixelArt.
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The door is open.

Please come on in.

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Hi. 🎄
We recently played Revived House on SteamDeck again. The experience is great.🎮

I have a question for you: do you already have SteamDeck?

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New cheat code : controlmapreveal 🗺️🔍

🌟 Wishlist the game on Steam : https://store.steampowered.com/app/3386520/Frontier_Control__Invasion/

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Ey, hömma ⚒️🦉🦇 Ist denn schon Weihnachten?

https://youtube.com/shorts/8jnBYAdtlfI?si=QbABBDpWFQX-mZ-t

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I've added a GearMatchRotation that takes in a ratio. The left gear moves in response to the right gears rotation. This is a quick test. It'd be easier if I make the gear take in the count of the teeth and calculate the ratio automatically.

Next up I think will be slides and then cantilevers.

I should not I'm doing this inefficiently without Jobs now. I can switch that later. Plus it might be fine for Rabanaz, we'll see.

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I got the animator proxy setup to hook into animation mode. I also have a trivial gear that matches one object's offset to another object. The video shows how the left gear follows the first gear via a GearMatchPosition component. The right gear is animating normally.

Restoring positions on stop is a bit uncertain. I can do it, but it's not part of the standard approach that the animator is using. I don't see any way to hook into that.

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YES! We are over the moon to share that Sleepytime Village is part of the @gelius GIG Showcase on January 5th! Be sure to follow the channe to get notified when the showcase goes live! Happy days!

https://www.youtube.com/@gelius__/videos

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In order to interface with the animator preview I can use a RigBuilder setup with a single RigProxy. Since this has a create / destroy method I can tell my Machine class to start/top. Then I can use LateUpdate to modify things -- let's see if I can get this to be temporary.

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🎉End of year recap!! #indiegamedev #indiedev 🎨 Tons of #art + #animation & #trailer links ✍️ #writing summary + updated flowcharts!! 🩸Thank you all for supporting this #darkfantasy and #horror VN through 2025!!!! 🔥It's a LOT, you can see all that & more for free here! www.patreon.com/posts/146757...