NBA Live 16 Animation Feedback

[mrprice33]

Okay, so I've seen a lot of talk in the threads about animations that need to be removed or altered, and I'm making my own list, but crowdsourcing feedback would allow me/us to get as many of these as possible listed for me to present to EA.

So, that being said, this can't be a place where you come in and shout "animations suck! 16 bit rawr rawr!," because that doesn't help anyone. What I need is this: if you've gone through the pre-release footage/played the demo and found an animation you think looks particularly bad, link the video in this thread along with a general timestamp and a short description of what I should be looking for like "#3 is under the basket and does a hook shot without looking at the rim."

I will then review the footage, chop out gifs of the offending animations, and collect them all in an imgur library for us to present to the devs. I'll link the library here as I build it for everyone to review so I can make sure we're getting the right ones, and we'll use this as a place to point out the biggest offenders. I cannot guarantee that this means that ANY of these will get fixed, as that is something that is beyond my control, but it will get to people whose job it is to handle this stuff.

I'm going to have more threads like this for more things in the future, so please don't clutter this thread with other stuff. There can be some light discussion on the examples posted (I do want this to be collaborative), but long diatribes about EA or why can't they do this or whatever will just be deleted, so don't waste your energy.

I'm fighting for the sim heads in here, and I know there are a ton of you who are concerned with animation quality, so thanks in advance for making yourselves heard!

I'm working on the imgur album now, but the following has already been posted to it: https://youtu.be/cEqgoFbiEHA?t=5m22s

The layup attempt at 5:24 has no foot planting and no awareness of the basket. Here's the gif:



The album has now been created. It is located here.

[The 24th Letter]

Thanks for this price...would you like examples of the transitional stuff as well? Or is this strictly for "bad animations"...?


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[mrprice33]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Thanks for this price...would you like examples of the transitional stuff as well? Or is this strictly for "bad animations"...? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What do you mean by "transitional stuff"? Post an example and I'll let you know.

I'm going to have more of these threads for other parts of the game as well, so it may wind up getting covered there, but I'd want to see what you mean before I say for sure.

[iFnotWhyNoT]

Awesome thread

here is one



starts around the three minute mark, the player glides way to fast into the lane off a hop step for a layup

[JODYE]

I believe he means the in between motion from animation to animation.

God, I want to contribute but I don't even know where to start. That Rising Star video was marred with poorly tuned user controlled animations as well, as poor ball physics and ball/rim interactions.

So disappointing.

There doesn't seem to be a consistency of animation speed. You will have this really nice accurately weighted dribble animation as you bring your player up the court then will jump into warp speed as you make some awkward looking pass to the wing. I don't get it.

This possession is a perfect example:
https://youtu.be/cEqgoFbiEHA?t=8m14s

[mrprice33]

Quote: Originally Posted by iFnotWhyNoT

Awesome thread here is one starts around the three minute mark, the player glides way to fast into the lane off a hop step for a layup

I don't see anything.

[mrprice33]

Quote: Originally Posted by JODYE

I believe he means the in between motion from animation to animation. God, I want to contribute but I don't even know where to start. That Rising Star video was marred with poorly tuned user controlled animations as well, as poor ball physics and ball/rim interactions. So disappointing. There doesn't seem to be a consistency of animation speed. You will have this really nice accurately weighted dribble animation as you bring your player up the court then will jump into warp speed as you make some awkward looking pass to the wing. I don't get it. This possession is a perfect example: https://youtu.be/cEqgoFbiEHA?t=8m14s

I have like a 5 second window for gifs. Specifically, which animation is the one you'd like to see changed? The layup at 8:24? I can see that the ball is moving a lot faster than it should, but that's not really what I'm looking for. I'm just trying to be as hyper-specific as possible so I can present the information in a clear and concise way.

[strawberryshortcake]

Great idea. If the demo has a replay mode, it's going to be much easier to showcase poor animations.

For anyone wanting to do a gif instead, use the following free website. Simply find a youtube video and paste the link into the below website. Create a gif ranging from 1 to 20 seconds. I have been having fun creating gifs. But please also do what MrPrice suggested and post the video and time stamp.

Giflike - The quality of this one looks a little bit more high definition than Make a Gif
https://www.giflike.com/

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Make a Gif
http://makeagif.com/FXc1Zq

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You need to register on the website in order to create medium and large size gifs. If you don't register, you can only create small size gif ranging from 1-5 seconds.

SMALL GIF


MEDIUM GIF


LARGE GIF

Embedding youtube video for those that don't know. Probably more useful as we can enlarge the full to full screen size plus the quality is usually better than creating a gif.

Quote: Originally Posted by strawberryshortcake

1. Click on Share button 2. Click on Embed button