Crouching down and sliding

[erlend-sh]

The act of crouching or ducking is essential for dodging certain types of high-flying shots, or making sure you’re 99% safe behind a hard platform.

This will obviously necessitate an additional character art pass as well.

Crouching at speed results in a slide. Funnily enough, this will position our fish characters in their much more natural horizontally aligned posture 🐠

[not-fl3]

we actually have both slide and crunch animations in the fish spritesheet, spritesheet in the game is just little outdated. Here is the latest one:

[64kramsystem]

The act of crouching or ducking is essential for dodging certain types of high-flying shots, or making sure you’re 99% safe behind a hard platform.

This will obviously necessitate an additional character art pass as well.

Crouching at speed results in a slide. Funnily enough, this will position our fish characters in their much more natural horizontally aligned posture tropical_fish

How is this going to play with the platform descension? Right now, "down" will descend a platform (if not solid). Will descend be the canonical "down" + "jump button" (which will required changing jump to be a different button from "up"), and crouch the simple "down"?

[erlend-sh]

we actually have both slide and crunch animations in the fish spritesheet

Aha! All set on the art front then.

Will descend be the canonical "down" + "jump button"

Yep.

which will required changing jump to be a different button from "up"

I’ve only been playing with a gamepad and jumping is already a button there, not joystick-up. So the only changes are:

1. Crouch on joystick-down
2. Descend platform on joystick-down+jump-button.

[64kramsystem]

I’ve only been playing with a gamepad and jumping is already a button there, not joystick-up. So the only changes are:

Ah, right 😅, I've been playing with the keyboard, but that's negligible.

[olefasting]

If this is up for grabs, I'll take this one. I can also implement all the new animations from the sheet posted by Fedor, above

[olefasting]

#50

[olefasting]

Sliding: #54

[SirGiraffey]

I feel that when crouching, held items or weapons should also be a bit lower as it allows for more precise aiming. Right now, despite crouching, the weapons stay in the same spot

[olefasting]

I feel that when crouching, held items or weapons should also be a bit lower as it allows for more precise aiming. Right now, despite crouching, the weapons stay in the same spot

I agree. I have already talked about fixing the process around mounting guns in #code on Discord. I personally think this should be done before we address this