A Quick Fix (Noir Dairy)

The day began, I rushed to my Laptop. There he was, the one I call "the crafty hacker", it was Ahmed Abo Baker. I was greeting us into the session, sitting right in front of a green screen. I was asking us guys to show and explain the progress made during the past week. our team did not have much to show at the time in terms of design and art. We programmers showed him our AI and asked about the foot sliding issue we are facing. He explained us about more optimal and Industry standard method of using root motion to move the characters and animation. also he showed us how to setup rigs for humanoid characters so that it could be used along with the animator component. To show and explain the whole process he imported a model and animation from a free online animation provider known as mixamo. once he imported the model he showed us how to configure the bone's mobility values which affects the range of motion it could achieve out of the animation. He also began introducing us to an issue of using both physics and root-motion for controlling the character movement. He began writing the code and made a simple script to take the movement delta provided by the animation and apply the delta to the velocity vector in the rigidbody. the class got over and we had a discussion with the animation team and their tutor. the level was not ready yet so the animation tutor gave the designer a dead line to make and submit one. A few days later there was a makeup session with our tutor Ahmed. during the session our tutor asked u to make a few changes to the behavior tree. so we did and the change in the structure only took us a short time and we felt in control of the whole process and not overwhelmed by the tree. A few days later there was a session with the design tutor, he gave us feedback regarding our workflow and project management pattern, and he suggested us to design a level using the existing pieces so that we could playtest it and see which on feel better and what are the unique elements that make it special..