The only difference between that and bipedal mechs is the torso of chicken walkers has an upwards and downwards parabola that it animates through. Your standard chicken walker uses roughly the same mode of walking as any other mech, it plants a foot on the ground and uses it to push itself forward. The fourth joint, if it were used, would allow the mech to squat lower to the ground while keeping a more stable torso due to a vastly different mode of motion. Walking just fine.Įdited by Paigan, 04 October 2017 - 05:20 AM. Maybe the Shadowcat or the Timberwolf would be even closer to the Uziel, but the point is the same: 3 joints.

No need to drop anything, just making the additional joint fixed forms a composite thigh.

It's thigh looks pretty similar to what the two fixed parts of the Uziel form. Maybe it depends on what you mean with 'knee leg' and 'lower leg' and 'upper leg'.ĪFAIK, it's very simple: the fixed Uziel joint is already the best solution. I would also say that the feet need to be in line with the torso not to hang back (maybe) To walk with 3 joints you need to drop the non moving 'knee leg' - and connect the moving 'lower leg' and the 'upper leg' (increasing the size of the lower leg, and maybe the length of the upper) Is it an inevitable consequence of the indivodual lengths of the Uziel's limb members or is it laziness in the frame of doing a 3-joint-animation? So the actual question is: why does this Mech walk funny with 3 joints while other chicken walkers with 3 joints walk properly? You call it 'lazy', I would call it not wasting resources.Įveryone interested in doing work efficiently (getting the most out of YOUR money) couldn't care less about if some funny guy introduced some superfluous joint somewhere. If some illustrator guy added a fourth visual for some weird reason, okay.

For me, the more important question is, why that Mech has/needs an additional joint in the first place.Ī lot of Mechs walk just fine with 3 joints.

Bowlegged jump animation fix