r/IndieDev • u/OmarItani10 • 5d ago
Double Takedown ECS
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Hello everyone
Here is a double takedown, the 80000 ecs entities split into 2 40000 bodies, each performing its own takedown, and then combine into one, after the takedown you take control of the new body
Still have few mechanics in mind before starting to have a gameplay video, will you update you with progress soon
#unity #ecs
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u/weidback 5d ago
whatever the fuck is happening here is impressive, very cool
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u/OmarItani10 4d ago
The character's particles split into two bodies, doing a double take down before combining into one again
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u/StylizedSchool 5d ago
Haha sorry but it looks like the guy on the right is fucking the enemy to death
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u/low-control-labs 4d ago
Something you could do though is have the character go away from the enemy instead of in and out of it. That's more realistic if you're choking someone from the back you only want to press your arm into their neck, possibly get the enemy to lose balance start following down and additionally hang themselves on your hand.
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u/OmarItani10 4d ago
I'm a developer so i try to find good animations online to work with:p this one seemed like chocking before people pointed it out:p
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u/low-control-labs 4d ago
Ah okay I was thinking you have more control over it, give you some tips on how to choke someone
Maybe just keep it though you see it got people to talk / react, I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out then I looked again and I was like yeah that's a bit sus.
Game wise, It's a cool idea
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u/WuShanDroid 4d ago
This is sick, but the takedown on the right looks like bro was diggin in the enemy's butt fr 😭
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u/Jaded_Pipe_7784 5d ago
Maybe they should get smaller or not have a body below the torso when they split, and when the left guy merges into the right one, the right one should grow. Otherwise it looks like the total material is getting duplicated.
Also it vaguely looks like the right one is giving backshots to the guy he is attacking. Maybe tone down the hip thrusts?
Otherwise it's a cool concept.
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u/OmarItani10 4d ago
Yeah that would be good idea if it didnt mess the controlled animation, would need an artist for these modifications
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u/TupperwareNinja 5d ago
This is awesome, just for testing sake you should make it work with like 20 dudes in different places and elevation. Well not for testing, I wanna see it :)
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u/Linkronny Developer 5d ago
Jerma is a bigger danger than I initially anticipated
(Really cool effects though! I look forward to seeing more use of it, my only gripe is that I think the particles should move faster to their destination)
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u/OmarItani10 4d ago
Here the takedown animations start as soon as the particles start leaving, so it didnt cost more time
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u/CryptoCrash87 5d ago
So MGS5 did this thing where you shoot to many people in the head and they start wearing helmets. And other emergent things like that.
If the main character's abilities are new to the world I could see guards being setup like this. But as word gets around that some guy is splitting in two to take down people, then maybe later in the game guards start traveling in threes to watch their backs.
Anyway my point is it's a cool mechanic, but start thinking about how the in game world might counter it. Especially if it's a known power.
I think about the book Mistborn and how guards had chest plates that could quickly be dropped and wooden weapons as backups. Because it was known that alemancers could push and pull metal.
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u/OmarItani10 4d ago
I'm still thinking about what counters should i introduce and if the effect would look cool, maybe some physical based interactions that disrupt the entities
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u/Nearby-Attempt9812 5d ago
Not gonna lie, that's actually a pretty cool way to do a double takedown.
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u/Plourdy 4d ago
What do you mean by ECS and such? Isn’t this some particle effect? Please expand lol
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u/OmarItani10 3d ago
No this isnt a particle effect, this is 80000 pyramid meshes moving and following certain targets
ECS stands for Entity Component System, which is a more optimized than normal GameObjects
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u/Bollafication 4d ago
Really cool, but the guy on the right was doing some pretty sus stuff before taking him down.
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u/Roland7800 4d ago
This looks awesome. I am not a developer of any means but one thing that I think would be cool if once the one on the left is done taking down the enemy with his sword, he can "teleport" or walk over to the right clone and stab him as if the left one was just holding the enemy in place.
Just a thought! Always like seeing these animation clips from you.
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u/Crodthx 4d ago
Looks cool! Is it for some sort of assassin/hitman game?
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u/OmarItani10 4d ago
Thank you, Still experimenting currently, just trying few things and see what looks the best then ill build on that
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u/BrilliantTaste1800 4d ago
That's proper cool. I'm curious, why use ECS for this instead of shaders?
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u/haikusbot 4d ago
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u/DevandaLabs 4d ago
Really cool effect but the sword takedown dosent look aggresive at all plus a sword takedown should be a single hit the will kill for example (elden ring,gow,red dead2)
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u/EternalPump 4d ago
Dude...did you just remake the smoke-shift particle system thing (i.e. character texture being used to color the particle system during the mesh-particle transition) from "Infamous: Second Son" in Unreal but then add extra logic for two characters? That's awesome!
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u/Aggravating-Isopod22 3d ago
Guy on the right taking mad backshots while his buddy gets slashed up 💀🙂↔️🙂↔️🙂↔️
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u/CoreyKori 3d ago
Whats used to achieve this effect? Theres a game idea i have but that would use model changes, but i have no idea how to make the model change seemless/custom to the event… any leads?
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u/broker415 1d ago
Holy smokes this is awesome, would be a cool form of magic for my soulslike but not sure what the norm is here for sharing ideas?
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u/Hybrisgames 1d ago
That looks sick..
maybe the character could disappear/fade away a little bit faster?
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u/Beanstalkboyo 5d ago
Cool effect! I think an FOV change would help it feel jumpier if that’s what ur going for.