Animation Strangeness Megathread

[aikidragon]

Mod Note: Please put any strangeness with animation in this thread, be it a workstation, horses, etc. These are getting posted way too often and people aren't looking through bugs to see if an issue has been reported yet. Please check bug reports for similar posts before posting a new thread.

There are some oddities regarding the cauldron usage, that being the animation stance and your actual place in the world..
Brief explanation incoming: Cauldron has a model with a huge wooden spoon attached to it. No matter the direction you're coming, your 3D model will teleport to the side of the spoon, but your actual instance in the world will remain in the same spot as where you had accessed the cauldron.
I know this may be intended to prevent being stuck in some areas (behind a cave wall, for instance), but there may be a solution involving the rotation of the spoon, relative to the cauldron itself, to prevent peculiar behavior to happen.

Relevant gif with a demonstration:

[APXEOLOG]

That's only a visual thing. All mechanics have it, for example loom.

[aikidragon]

That's only a visual thing. All mechanics have it, for example loom.

Perhaps make it/them accessible only from certain directions.

[jorb]

That's only a visual thing. All mechanics have it, for example loom.

Perhaps make it/them accessible only from certain directions.

That was how it was in the first implementation, and if you want to have to discover and approach the magical interaction side of every damn object, well, then I'm not with you. The graphical oddities the current regime can produce are vastly preferable to having to bounce against everything four times before you manage to approach it correctly.

[MagicManICT]

maybe an arrow on some of these things indicating which side is "front" when you place it that goes away when you're not carrying or placing?

[Granger]

Maybe just rotate the cauldron, instead of teleporting the toon?

It is annoing when you think great, i could grab something from the container behind me just to be blocked by the cauldron because you're in reality on the other side of it.

[jorb]

Maybe just rotate the cauldron, instead of teleporting the toon?

It is annoing when you think great, i could grab something from the container behind me just to be blocked by the cauldron because you're in reality on the other side of it.

We've considered that, but it obviously doesn't work for static structures.

[Chiprel2]

1. Get on a horse.


2. Use cauldron.


3. Become a majestic creature.



Pics taken on :cam best or however you guys call it.

[jorb]

Known. Horses have some wonky behaviors. Thanks. Locking.

[Luckdemon]

Step 1. Make churn.
Step 2. Love churn.

Step 3. Prepare to churn.

Step 4. Proceed to make the wall churn out a bunch of white goop all over the floor.


In all seriousness, you can clip into the wall, it's just a visual bug, moving restores your original position. It does not impede combat or anything, it's strictly visual.