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Tweener animations

Postby squeakybum » 21 Feb 2025, 18:09

Hi Manu,

Would it be possible add the tweener animation and the underarm serve animation (maybe triggered by the dropshot input) but more importantly the tweener animation? When trying to retrieve a ball lobbed behind us when we’re at the net and it’s gone way beyond the zone of an overhead smash but still lands on the baseline, it’s very difficult to do much with it and there are quite spastic animations. Given animations like sliding and backhand smashes, jump smashes, have been implemented could you try and implement a tweener animation which is triggered when running back to retrieve a ball behind us to avoid the spastic animations and give us opportunities to get back into the point? An underarm serve would also be cool but not necessary, but pretty much all professional players can play the tweener and it would significantly contribute to the gameplay in these scenarios where the game currently just spazzes and looks a bit ugly. Yes, it’s true that on occasion, we can retrieve these balls and maybe play a lob back into the point but often times we are just stuck and limited by the lack of tweener animation.
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Re: Tweener animations

Postby squeakybum » 21 Feb 2025, 18:18

We even have a reach anim, which in the grand scheme of the gameplay is not that helpful and doesn’t look that pretty but the tweener anim would be a more significant add
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Re: Tweener animations

Postby matservant » 22 Feb 2025, 11:57

Tweener anim would be great, even more with the upcoming new animation system..
To be honest I'm waiting even more the new animation system in Tennis Elbow 4 than GTA 6 !!
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Re: Tweener animations

Postby squeakybum » 11 Mar 2025, 13:32

Hi Manu,

Now with experimental animations being worked on, would it be possible to implement these in the future? Almost every set I play I encounter a situation where a tweener could’ve been activated.
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Re: Tweener animations

Postby manutoo » 12 Mar 2025, 06:13

I won't add the underam serve, it'll be abuse right away and it almost never happens in real life.

For the tweener, maybe, but it's unlikely, because it's complicated to mix it with the freedom of movement of TE.
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Re: Tweener animations

Postby Robertoleal25_ » 13 Mar 2025, 05:23

Tweener animation would be a huge add to the game, it would be amazing to have it! :)
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