Madden NFL 10 Video: Pro-TAK Animation System

[TDogg09]

Quote: Originally Posted by thmst30

Quick comparison of gang tackling screens taken from Madden 09 and Madden 10 videos. Little improvement if any. Keep it up Madden dev team! DOF, chain gang, colored cleats, hand towels, much better lighting, multiple people in on the tackle, the grass is greener (literally and figuratively). Madden 09 Madden 10

Holy cow. It's amazing that that is only one year's difference.

[rckinAPhilliezhat]

Quote: Originally Posted by thmst30

Quick comparison of gang tackling screens taken from Madden 09 and Madden 10 videos. Little improvement if any. Keep it up Madden dev team! Madden 09 Madden 10

I swear madden 10 looks like a real nfl game lol lets compare cleats, lighting, the grass,...let me stop..Im gettin to happy lol

[Furq]

Quote: Originally Posted by thmst30

Quick comparison of gang tackling screens taken from Madden 09 and Madden 10 videos. Little improvement if any. Keep it up Madden dev team! DOF, chain gang, colored cleats, hand towels, much better lighting, multiple people in on the tackle, the grass is greener (literally and figuratively). Madden 09 Madden 10

The '10 pic honestly looks like a real tv telecast. the graphics in that picture at least look photo realistic

[shift9k]

I think I read somewhere that ian said that the marketing team was gonna release some stuff a little early and for us to not freak out. Is this that stuff?

Btw the people that said that they were happy no one was gonna post about colored cleats anymore. Well the majority of this thread has turned into colored cleats comments. Except this time you contributed!

Thanks for the colored cleats EA.

[LongBeach562]

game is looking way better, just hope the gang tackles are better by the final product.

[TheSaint92]

Quote: Originally Posted by MattIntellect

Why didn't you watch the other half?

I got too excited. But it just got better.

[shift9k]

Quote:

I think more and more videos are going to be coming out by our marketing department and from preview events...just wanted to let you guys know what's missing from the feature still that we are working on (this also is a bit of a response to apex and co. and their critiques). The biggest missing feature is probably carrying through velocity from original animations -> PRO-TAK. You can see that on the Lendale White video...meaning that when players transition from a normal mocap tackle into PRO-TAK stuff their velocities get zeroed out (meaning they stop in place). This will definitely be addressed before we ship...our goal is that you don't even notice the transition from one to the other...it should just look like another guy added on seamlessly. This is causing a lot of the feeling of "it needs more umph"... Second biggest is the "warping" into the PRO-TAK multi-man stuff. This hasn't been tuned really so guys are just 'suction-ing' like magnets to the ballcarrier. Also when the guys add on the goal is that they drastically effect the pile's velocity and positioning and stuff...right now they just attach and that's about it. Again when the feature is actually done you should feel a lot more 'power' when these guys hit the pile. The "endless chopping" stuff is often turned on for demo purposes...this will really not happen in the game when it ships...you'll see a guy drive forward and they'll then get pushed to fall forward or backward (or sideways or whatever) way quicker than just standing up chopping their feet. Lastly, we really don't have barely any animation variety in there yet. We're looking to at least add quadruple the amount of stuff to keep it fresh. We've built some new tech this year that basically swaps the animation banks for each PRO-TAK set of animations after they play (moving them to the end of the list after they do), but up until basically today we haven't had the variety to swap. That will be coming very soon as well. So anyway, I don't want to act like I don't want feedback from you guys as you see the new stuff...all of it is valuable and please keep posting...but I also wanted to let you know what we're currently working on. We definitely aren't going to be spending our whole cycle on this tech to have it not come out looking perfect. We just have to balance the needs of marketing to show stuff early even when it's not done. - Ian

This is the post I was talking about.

[icomb1ne]

Quote: Originally Posted by thmst30

Quick comparison of gang tackling screens taken from Madden 09 and Madden 10 videos. Little improvement if any. Keep it up Madden dev team! DOF, chain gang, colored cleats, hand towels, much better lighting, multiple people in on the tackle, the grass is greener (literally and figuratively).

Great comparison shots!!!


And really nice work so far Ian n' Co!!!!!