January 14th Weekly Update (Patreon)

This week I worked on setting up the melee portion of the combat system, and the weapon system.

This system will work for all creatures, not just Meridiana.  It gives me the ability to have the player or creatures pick up random weapons and use them.  I can also of course set up special weapons that only Meridiana or a specific creature can use, and set up melee like spells.

To start, I gave Meridiana a pretty generic melee spell.  A fire sword!

Not a super original weapon.  I imagine in game this weapon will cause little damage on its own, but it will also cause fire damage that effects enemies over time.

Using the motion capture set up I was able to put together the animations for the attack rather quickly.  It took me a few tries, as I didn't initially create enough of a pause between attacks for the player to be able to hit the button fast enough.

Also I know nothing about sword combat!  

Overall with the effects and sounds added, I feel pretty good about this attack, and the system as a while feels like it should work out pretty well.

Overall I'm pretty happy with this, and feel like I'm making some great progress.

Once this basic stuff is reworked, I think it'll be pretty quick to add all the enemies back in, and then get back to building content.