Horse what animations you would like to have?

[virror]

Very good job so far!
Jump animation seems a bit strange, the horse jumps very flat, should jump up with front legs first and land with front legs first, more like an arc. Other animations are very nice : )

[mr_Necturus]

@erenaydin

I’ll definitely buy the the package when its finish. Awesome job as usual

Thank you Eren!

[mr_Necturus]

@virror

Very good job so far!
Jump animation seems a bit strange, the horse jumps very flat, should jump up with front legs first and land with front legs first, more like an arc. Other animations are very nice : )

Thank you Virror!

Yep. I think you are right. I just want to note regarding to Jump and espesially about the last one - horse_running_death.

In order it will looks natural in the game you need to move it just like you moving walk, trot and gallop animations.

In case of jump you are moving it up and forward. In case of horse_running_death just forward in 2 horse bodies distance from the start animation to the end.

[jasonkaler]

What about bucking?
The four main gait movements are walk, trot, canter and gallop.
Those are like walk, jog, fast jog / run and sprint to us. each one has a distinc beat.
Horses can also pace but is little less common - kind of a noble stride.

[jbufo]

Awesome as usual. Definetely on my list.

[mr_Necturus]

@jasonkaler

What about bucking?
The four main gait movements are walk, trot, canter and gallop.
Those are like walk, jog, fast jog / run and sprint to us. each one has a distinc beat.
Horses can also pace but is little less common - kind of a noble stride.

Thank you for the not e Jason.
I see. Maybe I will these animations later. Is noble stride something like amble?

[mr_Necturus]

@jbufo

Awesome as usual. Definetely on my list.

You are very welcome Jbufo!

[diablo1]

@helmers

It would be very useful to not only have the horse animations, but also have them packaged (may be optionally) with according human animations (like mount/unmount, saddling/unsaddling, feeding, caring, leading, falling from horse). All these animations should be playable together with the corresponding horse animation. Example: Have a “horse dies during gallop” animation together with the “human falls from dieing horse” animation, playable in concert, so that it looks as one.

I think there is no other animation package on the market anywhere that has such “combos”. Quite simmilar to your medieval combat animations that also have combos for attack and corresponding defense.

And of course (as secondary package) have some combat combos for horse and rider (e.g. Lance attack, parading, sword/shield combat from horse, medieval tourney, …)

I would love to see such package(s) and buy them at once.

The problem with this is that everyone will want to use their own humanoid models, not a humanoid model supplied with the horse.

[mr_Necturus]

@diablo_1

The problem with this is that everyone will want to use their own humanoid models, not a humanoid model supplied with the horse.

It may be solved in 2 ways.

1. You can create horsmen animation for you model and will attach it to my horse in Unity. Horse will come with 4 spesial bones: Horseman bone, 2 srirrups bones and reins bone. All can be repositioned to fit custom model.

2. You can do all I described above but use my horsmen animations for your model. (it means to use my skeleton rig for your model, of corse)

[diablo1]

@mr_Necturus

It may be solved in 2 ways.

1. You can create horsmen animation for you model and will attach it to my horse in Unity. Horse will come with 4 spesial bones: Horseman bone, 2 srirrups bones and reins bone. All can be repositioned to fit custom model.

2. You can do all I described above but use my horsmen animations for your model. (it means to use my skeleton rig for your model, of corse)

Agreed, but my point was that most people buying this asset will want to use it on their own custom humanoid models with their own custom bone structure and their own custom animations, therefore IMHO you would be better off ignoring the 1 or 2 requests for this “feature” since it will be too much work for the least amount of return. Approach #1 is perfect : you give us a mount point of reference, and we create our own animation to mount/dismount however we like. You could spend time on #2, but IMHO all that effort will go to 1 or 2 users that are still messing around with Unity and not doing anything serious with it… I’m sure you’ll find your time and talent better spent creating other great models and animations.

El Diablo

[mr_Necturus]

@diablo_1

Agreed, but my point was that most people buying this asset will want to use it on their own custom humanoid models with their own custom bone structure and their own custom animations, therefore IMHO you would be better off ignoring the 1 or 2 requests for this “feature” since it will be too much work for the least amount of return. Approach #1 is perfect : you give us a mount point of reference, and we create our own animation to mount/dismount however we like. You could spend time on #2, but IMHO all that effort will go to 1 or 2 users that are still messing around with Unity and not doing anything serious with it… I’m sure you’ll find your time and talent better spent creating other great models and animations.

El Diablo

Thank you Diablo,

We are thinking in the same way.

1.Horse will be independent asset without any horseman.
2.I will make animation collection “Horsmen” so people will be able to rig and skin their model s with it and yous animations.
3. And I will load “horseman” animations in to my “Hero” character as well. http://mr-necturus.com/shop/hero_playable_character_unity_asset

This is the plan.

[anon_21142020]

I’ve been looking for some good horse/rider reference footage for months, looking at movies, TV shows, etc. If I had an actual 3d animation pack of walks, trots, canters, gallups, from the front/back, side and maybe a diagonal, I would be in HEAVEN!! And if there were some idle or other random animations thrown in, I wouldn’t even be able to handle the awesomeness.
Animating a horse and rider for my 2d project has been maddening. This could be exactly what I need.

[mr_Necturus]

@anon_21142020

I’ve been looking for some good horse/rider reference footage for months, looking at movies, TV shows, etc. If I had an actual 3d animation pack of walks, trots, canters, gallups, from the front/back, side and maybe a diagonal, I would be in HEAVEN!! And if there were some idle or other random animations thrown in, I wouldn’t even be able to handle the awesomeness.
Animating a horse and rider for my 2d project has been maddening. This could be exactly what I need.

Thank you Jman,

Horse will be ready soon. Maybe even tomorrow.

Then I will work on rider animations.

[Demigiant]

Wow. I’m not interested in a horse animation package right now, but I had to stop and say: awesome!!! Horse animations are way more difficult than human’s, and you made a wonderful job, from those preview I saw

[mr_Necturus]

@Demigiant

Wow. I’m not interested in a horse animation package right now, but I had to stop and say: awesome!!! Horse animations are way more difficult than human’s, and you made a wonderful job, from those preview I saw

Thank you lzitmee!

Sometimes to make horse animations are more dificult then to make human animations.

[jasonkaler]

@mr_Necturus

Thank you for the not e Jason.
I see. Maybe I will these animations later. Is noble stride something like amble?

No, when a horse paces, it’s left legs work together i.e. both left legs are forward when both right legs are behind.
Some nice animations and details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_gait

[jasonkaler]

How come all animated horses look so well fed?
In reality, most working horses are a bit thinner.

• not just a comment about your horses but almost all animated horses I’ve ever seen.
  Usually the females are a bit fatter than the males and there are often some ribs showing - unless the horses sit around doing nothing all day, which is a bit strange for a game.

[c-Row]

At 0:16 the horse looks as if it was sneezing and dropping dead right afterwards. Must be a bad case of horse flu.

[mr_Necturus]

Thank you for your comments guys.

As a tamplate I took the horse sculpture which was mad on the base of Leonadro Da Vinci drawings.
Propodtions are the same.

here: http://luckebabe-reflections.blogspot.com/2010/08/horses-of-frederik-meijer-gardens.html

[mr_Necturus]

Horse asset are ready btw. More information you can have here:

http://mr-necturus.com/shop/animated_horse_unity_asset
http://mr-necturus.com/shop/animated_horse

Hope you will like it.