I think the skew Idea will work, but the "Straight on" image is going to be a killer.  Most of my time has been trying to get the draw order, joints & animations to be read from a file.  I still need to add 1 last file that will describe "I want this type of mob (humanoid), using these graphics (right_arm = right_arm.png), showing this animation (1h swing) at x,y".

Here is the latest output,  I've added a few more mobs, still need to do the arms for the fire giant.  I've broken the arms into upper arms and lower arms.  I've made it only produce 3 images per frame as well, to make this animated graphic a little more internet friendly.

The left arm's animation is a little wierd.  I was trying to demonstrate that it is moving.

Next up:

  Cut 'n paste fire giants arms from original artwork so that he will be more complete.

  Divide the legs into UPPER_LEG and LOWER_LEG and possibly FOOT if the walking animation looks bad.

  Parse a scene.txt file so that I can stop recompliling all the time.



Here is something that I think just looks cool:  I was having problems geting the angles to recurse so I made a "worse case scenario" to use for testing:

Nice stuff, I just now learned how to animate lol.

Well, if you'd like my opinions on all that looks wrong, just ask . I haven't made any comments yet because i realize that this is still very much a prototype--but, on the flip side, i'd hate to give you no opinions and have you somehow end up with problems that would be very hard to fix...

Ah, and it looks really awesome, what you can do (btw ). Overall, i think it has very much merit, although it will take lots of tinkering to get it just right

Cheers,
Unislash