Howdy everyone! Hope you’re all having a fabulous Friday and are excited for the weekend.
The topic for this week’s post is this mysterious plant..flower..creature…..thing?
The Drerri Flower
Originally, this little guy was missing a lot. It couldn’t move, make any sounds, and it had no way of defending itself out there in the big wide world.
A lot of work was needed in all areas to get this thing feeling how we wanted, and animations were the first thing on our to-do list.
We spent time creating 3 animations:
- An idle animation for when it’s just going about its business, undisturbed
- An attack animation for when you get a little too close for comfort
- And a death animation for…...
After freeing this flower from it’s petrification spell, visual effects was the next job waiting to be tackled.
In this case we primarily need something for the creature’s attack, but also a smaller effect for when it takes damage.
With Animations and VFX ticked off, the last thing we had to work on was sound.
A sound for it unleashing its poison attack of course, but maybe a little growl too?
Let’s have a listen to those sounds, paired with everything else, in-game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=katW39lLq4Q&ab_channel=ForsakenRealms
So! Now that you know all about the Drerri Flower, I’m not convinced “Flower” is right…
I mean look at it! It’s definitely an evil demon, posing as a flower! What do you think?
I hope you guys enjoyed this first post!
We’re planning to post a small update on what's happening in the world of Leyda every Friday, so stay tuned if you want to see more.
If you’re interested in this kind of content, but don't have time to do all the reading, we’ll also be posting a YouTube short every Friday that has all the same information condensed down into 1 small video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x3I-jYhon3M
Cheers all, we'll catch you again next week!