The animations

[FFfan321123]

How are the animations? Fluent, realistic and pretty? Stiff and ugly? Because I've seen videos (though they might be outdated) and the animations looked rather stiff. How do they compare to the animations in say, FF9 and FFX?

[Yashin]

Re: The animations

The animations are better then all the other FFs...If they look bad in a video its cuz of fraps slowing down even the bests computers to 20-22 FPS...Or just because people lowerd the animation frame rate in the config...

The animations are pretty good...

[Brayden]

Re: The animations

I personally think they are great quality. You have to realize however, that unlike FFIX and X where everything is based from 1 disc. Online you have lag, and other factors. Taking those into account and if there were no such problems FFXI would still outshine them. (and its not hard to outshine the "Yuna run" from FFX-2)

[neighbortaru]

Re: The animations

if you've seen the videos in the videos section (check out SA WS video if you haven't yet), then you've seen the animations. actually, I think they are very good. it's not really fair to compare them to the CGI movies from the prior games though (if that's what you are doing).

[FFfan321123]

Re: The animations

if you've seen the videos in the videos section (check out SA WS video if you haven't yet), then you've seen the animations. actually, I think they are very good. it's not really fair to compare them to the CGI movies from the prior games though (if that's what you are doing).

It's not. I'm no FF n00b, only a MMORPG n00b. FFXI would be my first MMORPG. XD

[neighbortaru]

Re: The animations

then a word of warning before you start.

MMORPGs are time-sinks.

Unless you have the time to farm-level-farm-level-repeat, don't expect anything to happen quickly like in consoles. traveling take time, looking for groups take time, leveling takes time, crafting takes time, farming takes time.

[FFfan321123]

Re: The animations

I'm aware of this... But thanks for warning me.

(So what's the deal with these NPC buddies?)

[Keyura]

Re: The animations

a lot of the videos you see are lower frame rates becuase recording video is cpu intensive and its hard to do game + video at once, plus often people have settings down on big monsters cause they wanted to try and claim them. on the whole, the motions may not be as outstanding as the airship taking off from home in FFX or the gang crashing the wedding, but like SA said, theres always movement, always, everyone and everything is moving, while idle the characters sway side to side, and mithra's tails move, theres so much depth to the animation, a simple FMV to FMV comparison doesn't do justice to FFXI.

[Macht]

Re: The animations

Yeah, the animation on the game is great. It runs at like 40 FPS normal with fraps recording it what you are seeing is basically half it's quality or worse. As far as frame rates dropping there is only 1 action that causes this and can be adjusted or compensated for. That is when the game comes to the point of having to draw a large number of objects. Otherwise the animation is quite smooth even your main character when the system is drawing it, it fades you in very smoothly which works very well.

Lag from the server end really doesn't effect your systems animation. The animation is seperate from the servers control, if the server ever gets dropped the animation is so smooth in it that sometimes you won't even realize you are being dropped from the system unless you've taken a glance at the Top Right corner of your screen. All that happens when you lose connection is you'll basically see everyone go into a regular idle position (or whatever position they were in at the time).

The one that each race has, you'll see the Mithra's standing there and their tails swinging and for the very detailed oriented you'll notice even more slight stuff that each Mithra will do (I'm guessing it an A/B selection thing) but some Mithra's when idle you'll see their Right ear twitch. Something sort of to that effect even happens with a few Tarutaru models with their ears. So to the best of your knowledge when you are getting dropped from the server it'll look like everyone is just waiting for something.

[Sinomyth]

Re: The animations

Animation is pretty nice but graphics aren't everything.
Play FFXI and you will know it's a lot of fun, even if the graphics were shit.

[Coinspinner]

Re: The animations

If you line a bunch of mithra up together, you'll notice their tails swish at different speeds. Also, voices can be slightly different between characters. It might have to do with face selection and height selection. :x

[fuz]

Re: The animations

Quality of animation is good when they move, paying attention to lots of detail. However like most games, movment is exagerated; sometimes looks a bit silly, akward, and stiff. It's not realistic if that's what you want (hume male is the most normal). It's also very repetetive, due to a lack of variety (like the mobs).

The animation is all pre-made based on keyframes and/or a skeletal model. There is no reactive animation like some games where a long trenchcoat, hair, or breasts have their own on-the-fly animation based on movement. So mithra tails for example, while they look pretty good while running, they don't quite react right acording to physics, looking a bit stiff and out of sync at times. Then again gravity must be weak looking at how high you can jump and the size of weapons you use... (e.g. groundstrike)

You don't really notice the animations after awhile, which is to say that it fits the game well.

Graphics aren't terribly good from a polygon point of view, but the texturing is extremely top-notch and makes up for it.

[Kafeen]

Re: The animations

Graphics aren't terribly good from a polygon point of view, but the texturing is extremely top-notch and makes up for it.

The texturing is deadful in Rangomount (sp?) pass. Who ever did that wants firing or shooting or something.


Btw, why was ANOTHER old thread bumped?

[fastcart]

Re: The animations

I think its because ppl are looking at "Similar Threads" at the bottom of threads and not noticing the dates.

[Kittyneko]

Re: The animations

I dont really mind the graphics of FFXI. Yet, I think FFX graphics are a lot better! ^^ And if you really wanna play FFXI with good graphics, get a good Graphics Card. ^^ Because i with my Ge-Force MX440 have to play on the lowest resolution and I still get lags sometimes ; ;
But I bought an ATI Radeon 9550SE now.. I just wish I could get it to work.. Ow well. ^^ I enjoy FFXI... but mostly because i have many friends on it^^ I dont like Roleplaying or Drama though.. Funny isnt it =P