Taking care of ground unit deployment animations

[Worrazen]

With all the damage model buzz, the ground unit upgrade should also come with solid preparation, deployment, setup animations, along with reloading and refueling.

 

«Neboj-M» radar calculations during air defense and RTV training in the Urals

 

Perhaps not the kind of premium animations in paid modules like Super Carrier, perhaps human figures assisting deployment aren't that necessary here to lower the complexity given the amount of ground units, but I wouldn't mind if it's done 100% accurately either, reloading of ammo is also one of those things that can get complicated if human figures are involved, probably refueling too, but I'd really love to see those radar dishes extend and deploy nicely with all the stages timed right, with the spot on sound effects.

 

I would be fine with human figures standing beside and possibly be physical objects that can be damaged (with their own damage model) so perhaps deployment would be interrupted temporairly of they get sniped, but I'm not asking for some sophisticated animations like the person in the 0:15 minute mark in the "Neboj-M" video above. If they stand around, walk a bit here or there, that's enough for me, for example for refueling, the fuel truck would approach a unit requesting fuel and the human figures jump out and perhaps do some key animations but otherwise stand around and watch the refueling process, probably no need to do animations how they jump ontop of the fuel-needing vehicle and attach hoses, etc.

 

 

Then again, I'm not against a paid ground unit module either, I would pay a bit for top notch animations, sound and missile launch effects of various ground units IMHO.

 

The deployment stuff affects gameplay too, it's a delay before you can transport a radar antenna, there's a delay before you can get it up and running even if you get to the location you want, naturally, so it's not just a visual gimmick.

 

I'll talk more in this thread when I find cool deployment videos going forward.

Edited October 11, 2020 by Worrazen