The crouch #animation was controversial on #gamescom. Many liked the playfulness, but there was some confusion and motion sickness.

So if you choose to use the crouch-button, you will get an alternate fast animation.

Also: do you know any #games that offer reduced motion?
#gamedev #accessibility

So I didn't really wanted to bother with that. It just felt wasteful and as I was already expecting a lot of math so the stairs would neatly move in and out of each other when starting to raise, I spend an afternoon with cosine, vector math and #gsgl to create this displacement shader.

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Okay, everyone has seen Escalators, but how about recreating them in #godot?

Well this is one of the things that get really complicated in terms of #techart, so strap in dear #gamedevs let's escalate.

1. how do we deal with the geometry?
2. how do we go about the animation efficiently?

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