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Interruptible powers do not root until the attack actually fires off. It's possible to have a window where the interrupt time has passed, but the windup animation is still playing...where you can move and still have the attack going off. Especially if you have slotted for reduction.

That is WAI right now.

That will be in a incremental build pretty soon.

Should be fixed soon...patience.

Rooting Rules:

The amount of time that the animation for Clear Mind is flagged as rooted is 1.1 seconds. The activation/cast time is 3.1 seconds, but that's a separate thing from rooted/non-rooted. The activation time would prevent you from using another power, but you can still move around. Rooting through the sequencers prevents both.

I'm not entirely sure why that is so high. Looking at all of the powers that use that particular animation, and the activation time is kind of all over the place. Lemee check with Castle when he gets back and see if we can't make that a bit more consistent.

Wow...are the comments there always so brutal?

I had no idea so much was at stake with Going Rogue, you think someone here would have said something about the future of the entire NCWest division riding on our expansion pack.

I find this comment particularly amusing
If that's from one of you guys, I'm flattered...but really? You trust me, an animator/VFX artist or Castle, a power designer, over a NCSoft exec who actually knows what they're talking about? Why...because we're chatty here on the forums? Posi I could understand, cause theoretically he'd be the most 'in-the-know'. I would have thought that announcing a long overdue, genuine expansion pack for CoH/CoV could only be viewed as a positive thing for our game. How did someone manage to spin it into a sign of impending doom?

So many comments on NCSoft in relations to unsuccesful games. As someone who was working on Auto Assault when it launched, I've never felt that its failure was due to a lack of support from NCSoft. Quite the opposite, they let us push the launch date quite a ways back for a much needed overhaul and polish phase. Post launch, the game did not do well and rather than completely cut and run, NCSoft still supported the game long enough to try and turn things around. Alas, it just wasn't enough. The game simply failed on it's own merits...but it had more than a fair shot, imo.

I'm not trying to blow smoke up anyone's backside here, but we're doing pretty damn good for an MMO that's heading toward's its 6th birthday and we plan to be here for a while. There have been a lot of talented people who've helped shape this game over the years, and while there have been mis-steps here and there, we really are trying to make the right decisions for the overall benefit of the game that we're all so invested in. It's a tough gig, we've got a lot of hard work ahead of us, but I really do think that the best days are still to come and I hope you guys will stick around for the ride.

Whup-*** is in the gloves. Sarcasm goes in the lid.

Nope...spare keystrokes are saved for sarcastic posts on the forums.

And with that, we've come full circle!

Like a black fly, in your chardoney!

Er...I always work with auto-keyframe mode (Auto-Key in Max). All it does is automatically create a key at the current frame for any translation you do on the object. Nothing mysterious about it.

In fact, I've only known one animator who worked by setting keys manually, and his curves were a bloddy mess. Namely because he would just select every bone and blast a key onto everything...whether it needed it or not.

It's essentially the same thing, except one requires at least one extra keystroke and usually generates more keys than you actually need.

This is patently untrue. I have never removed my sarcastic hat, thus have no need to put it on.

I don't know...I assume they are. I'm not aware of any bugs related to Stalker animations. That's not to say that there aren't, just that I'm not currently aware of any.

I think you've keyed in on the culprit. Thanks.

*adds 'base improvements' to list of animations needed*

I hope I don't run out of keyframes for that one. I better order some more just to make sure I'm covered.

That would require animation blending.

That would be consistent with our rules for what power animations root and which don't.

"Any click power that is a PBAOE ally buff, single target ally buff, or single target ally heal will root the player while activating."

Lemme just jot that down on my list of things to animate.

...better...mouse...functionality...for...Macs...

I'll get right on that, as soon as I'm done animating these bug fixes for TF/SF levels.

As stated in the patch note, this toggle is not intended to be used in combat. It's mainly there for people to RP in safe areas...Atlas Park, Pocket D, etc. It can certainly be used outside of those areas, but there's only a certain level of functionality that we're going to be able to accomodate for now.

Eventually, I'd like to create walk animations for the various combat modes...but that's a significant chunk of work and I don't know if we'll ever be able to get to it. If we can, then Walk could be made into a regular travel mode power...one which could work with combat as well. Which would make the issue of toggle deactivation/suppression moot.

Movement suppression is from the power system.

Not sure which powers you're referring to that cause rooting, but don't really require rooting.

I had the same issue with BABs. Something was causing me to cap out at 1.4...we're not sure what the culprit is right now, but we're aware that something is inconsistent with the way Walk currently works.

Well, I haven't been working on this game for 5 years...so I'll only accept responsibility for the inability to walk since about May of 2006. I'd like to get a buy for being the only VFX artist/animator on both CoH/CoV up until about 2 years ago as well...most of which was eaten up with power customization, training our new employees, and working on other stuff for the game.

This has taken a long time simply because it's never been deemed important enough to be actually scheduled...instead it's been put together kind of piecemeal over time.

I'm not able to repro this...which makes me think this is something I might have already fixed, and the sequencers haven't made it into a build.

I tried to animate that bug away, but no luck so far. I'll keep you updated on my progress on that front.

Not true. We cannot alter animations based on the presence or absence of a costume part.

AGH! MY EYES! The goggles...they do NOTHING!