Guild Wars 2

Well, unsurprisingly, they still haven’t fixed the animation for these wings and I guess the only way for that to happen is to make some noise about it. If you can copy the code of the molten picaxe to the sickle, you might as well use the holo wings on these shattered ones.

Copying animation isn’t that easy, it just depends on the underlying bone structure of the rigging (for example, kodan and norn seem to have the same bone structure because when using a kodan tonic and dancing, they do the norn dance), I’m guessing based on the way it moves both wings have different bone structure.

To add a side request.. can we have the option to stop the animation on the wings?. The shattered ones would look perfect on my guardian but the constant flapping is annoying, IMHO, if they were to just stand there, with maybe some secondary movement then moving, I’d definitively use it, as it is it’ll probably sit on my bank when I get them.

I hope they fix this. Basically it looks like the wings are flapping backwards. I’m running forward but it looks like I am backpeddling. If they just reverse the animation, it might look correct?

Geneticide.6987:

Well, unsurprisingly, they still haven’t fixed the animation for these wings and I guess the only way for that to happen is to make some noise about it. If you can copy the code of the molten picaxe to the sickle, you might as well use the holo wings on these shattered ones.

What is it that should be fixed?

They also clip thru my Asuru

I didn’t notice any animation bug, but I could be wrong. What is the issue, can you post a video so we can see it?

Meh, I love them.

I just wish they were claw themed instead of shatterer.

i would love to have the animation fixed too for the shattered wings , they clip trough my norn and human characters , it only works fine on the charr

Yeap they’re clipping through my Asura too

BlueSoda.6297:

I didn’t notice any animation bug, but I could be wrong. What is the issue, can you post a video so we can see it?

The issues are mostly clipping-related. The wings flap in an odd way that makes them clip through themselves and in many cases through the characters’ back or head as well.

The wings look so cool. However the angle that they flap at completely ruins the back piece. A.net why you do this :C

The solution actually seems kind of simple. Rather than change the animation entirely, change the angle at which the Shatterer wings connect to the character model. That way it could flap similarly to how the other dragon wings flap.

Also, I too support an option to disable flapping.

lets hope Anet fixes this cause if the animation would have been better it would have looked awesome on my norn

I also agree with an option to disable the flapping. I’d like the wings far better if they were stationary. I’m not a big fan of random moving bits on my characters.

To my eyes, the animation looks more like a hovering animation rather than a flying one.

Astral Projections.7320:

To my eyes, the animation looks more like a hovering animation rather than a flying one.

That’s essentially correct.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Electro. I think the reason I didn’t see the problem is because I put mine on a Charr. I hope they fix this for everyone else though.

Arathor.7419:

i would love to have the animation fixed too for the shattered wings , they clip trough my norn and human characters , it only works fine on the charr

Male norn? I ask because I notice no clipping on my female.

The animation looks quite dumb.

Left wing looks higher then right wing…. looks off and crooked

Spent quite a bit of time and was excited for these but actually after 5 mins just turned the back display off. Looks too wrong when running, standing still it’s fine but then they’re only appealing to the people who stand around in Lions arch all day which is kinda defeating the point of the game?

I heard the wings disappear on necros using death shroud. Is this true? If so, I hope they fix it. In fact I want them to turn black while in death shroud to match the form. That would look incredibly awesome.

Can’t seem to get a good screen shot of it, but Guardian’s empower on a human female looks freaking awesome with the wings. However yeah, the wings seem somewhat lopsided, and also clip my shoulders and shield when im using one -.-

Love the achievement wing <3

Yes, the wings do disappear on necros in deathshroud. Disappointing. That would have been cool.

I’m a Charr, with these wings when i run on all 4’s they tilt to the left constantly and the animation seems very off going through my left arm sometimes.

Personally I prefer the animation on the shattered wings to the holo ones.

Yes it looks more like hovering/going backwards than going forwards, but it’s also a little bit slower and more varied which makes it look less rushed.

The animation on the wings don’t look good on asuras as the animation causes the wings to go through neck, shoulders and head.
Tried to take a couple of screenshots without luck, but here they are: http://i.imgur.com/tLRnUOg.jpg

I too wish I could get the wings to stop flapping…

Either an adjustment to animation or an option to stop animation. Anything to stop the clipping issue the wings look so good. It’s a shame that they clip Asuras

Agreed. The wings themselves are nice, but completely ruined by the horrid animation.

There are two major segments of the animation loop. One is further back from the body and looks ok. The segment where the come up and in towards the character’s back is the segment that looks horrible. I’d just clip out that part of the animation and just have them flap.

Even better would be to only have them flap when standing still and have them go into a gliding animation when you are actually running. Assuming you guys still have animators that know how to do dynamic movement.

locoman.1974:

To add a side request.. can we have the option to stop the animation on the wings?.

this.

If its a hovering animation rather than a flapping one, part of the weirdness may be because it was taken from a dragon (horizontal back) and moved to you (vertical back). This means the hovering is no longer aimed downwards but horizontally. Since the hovering direction is wrong, it looks peculiar and that may be why some people are saying they like it on their Charr, because their posture directs the movement more downward.

Edit: on the Charr not talking about how it looks while running, just while standing.