Mana Games

[manutoo]

Hello,

here the 1st screenshots in-game, featuring the 2 indoor surfaces : synthetic & hard.

It misses the ads on the walls, but except that, comments are welcome...
I think maybe I'll change the blue walls to be purple...

[btaylor]

Hi Manu

The stadiums are coming along really great!
Yeah, the "blue" courts could really use another color (purple might be OK ) for the back wall and seats...so there isn't too much blue going on...

[kyuuji]

wow, getting amazing

[Algo]

as an aside note: look at the last picture, the whole lower body is facing to the other side of the court while the upper body is fully rotated to the crowd, both lower body and upper body should face to the same place.
on topic: GREAT job with the courts, really waiting for the game, and yeah maybe it'd be good to change the blue, only, in the blue surface to purple or other color

[fede_nalbi]

great job manutoo

[btaylor]

With the modern "open" stance forehand that picture is almost normal, because of upper body coiling before ball contact...as you "load" on the back leg/foot before "uncoiling" into and through the strike...

[Zurdo98]

wooooooop what good

[Imanno]

Is there no audience in these new courses? or is it later? anyway I thought that you have done a good job manutoo

[manutoo]

Crowd is currently eating a hotdog outside the stadium, hopefully, they'll enter within a couple of weeks...

About the forehand, btaylor, the stance is correct, except for the pelvis orientation. But I cannot change it without doing an awful lot of work (for the ones knowing the meaning, it'll require to do some real-time inverse kinematics after the animation blending)...

[btaylor]

Hi Manu

I wasn't the one doing the critisizing...that was Algo...I was just stating that your open-stance forehand wasn't really all that far off...

[manutoo]

btaylor, sorry, I forgot 2 words in my previous message, let's rewrite this : "btaylor is right"..!!
And btaylor is right again, my previous statement was mainly addressed to algo...

[btaylor]

No worries, Mate!

[Algo]

yeah, I watched some videos after seeing btaylor's post and it's not that bad, slightly too extreme just, if it's way too much work to change it, then leave it that way, is not so important, thanks to answer and keep up the good job with the new game

[Krisztian J.]

beutifull

[jesp8000]

With the modern "open" stance forehand that picture is almost normal, because of upper body coiling before ball contact...as you "load" on the back leg/foot before "uncoiling" into and through the strike...

Right, theres nothing wrong with the orientation of the body being "Open Stance". Its because of the orientation of the knees. This is what I am telling to Manutoo even before, to correct the knees. As an example of what I mean, look at the images that I attached in here. In my opinion, animation should put the knees as what I have given on the right image.