It probably would be cooler if the anime considered displaying the attack (which is never shown) instead of the upskirt panties reveal instead. :D ... Just Sayan...

Darth Fez wrote:

Nerds.

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Redlynne wrote:

mikenovember wrote:
It probably would be cooler if the anime considered displaying the attack (which is never shown) instead of the upskirt panties reveal instead. :D ... Just Sayan...

Um ... watch the episode?
Tokyo ESPer is not at all shy about showing the attacks. I just simply reached for a gif that showed the teleport, rather than a gif that showed off how much blood and gore that dual blades girl was dishing out. One-two, and through and through, her blades went snicker-snack!
Empyrean wrote:
More than that gratuitous upskirt.
Man ... talk about focusing on the wrong thing.
I point out the FX and you can only stare at a skirt, and wonder what's underneath it ...

First off... Relax and take a deep breath. My comment was that ironically we never see the attack your referring to just the transition very briefly, and, the obligatory and gratuitous shot that anime is known for. I'm not pointing out anything that hasn't been pointed out on that genre a few hundred times.

Secondly, don't assume I'm attacking the idea. I never commented on the concept. I've seen the Anime you're referring to -- it is a video however, and translating that look to a game engine is going to be difficult if you have a lot of other effects being triggered. What can be done in a video, and in a live game are very different problems.

Its up to the game people to work it out but from what your showing its possible but might be really requiring pretty decent graphics cards if there are multiple powers firing. The lag might get pretty hellish for some people.

If you break the actual attack animation problem down you have the following:

1) Physical Character animation movement / direction
2) Particle Animation layers (looks like it's around 3-5), some of these are transparent (important because transparent particles are really just lots of smaller particles - more particles=more animation engine needs), and the fade out.
and then the reverse on wherever you attack.

Now, this as I said isn't difficult to pull off. But do that with 2-5 people doing similar things and your video graphics card has to calculate and swirl all those video particles within the animation cycle - for each instance of it. One trick you can use is to use large particles (means fewer of them) with trailing edges.

If you notice on the animation there - the black smokey bits have a side usually with a very angular sharp edge on one side - this is good because we can use those in an animation cycle to reduce the number of smaller particles. If you get something like GenArts/Wondertouch software's ParticleIllusion you can probably create the animation as a gif - or at least the larger bits and then save that as a PNG with a transparent background, then they could - place that into the game engine as large particles with the animation you created treated as a particle itself - that swirl - and in theory add in smaller smokey trailing bits. This would allow them to pull off something like that.

That's how i'd do it in a video if I needed to render it quickly. The problem comes in - that when you rotate it to view from other angles the animation's a 2D object in a 3D world so you have to have 3-6 versions which - once again amps up the graphics card renders. The team could probably do this so it's not a problem - but it will take time to tweak it to make it look good, and be less of a resource hog on systems.

I'd give it a shot but I would not hold my breath to have it ready by release. Maybe 2nd release. It's a lot of work to pull it off. (And once again - I am not affiliated with the game. I am just tossing out my experience with animations.)