"Codewise antenna are just legs pointing up.." This is true lore.

The animals transitioning instead of just cutting between video clips was really next level stuff. Fantastic work.

"Code-wise, antennae are just legs that point into the air." This is even funnier when you consider the evolution of arthropods - many features of arthropods were simply legs at some point that got re-purposed. So this is accurate to both the game, and reality. Note: pedipalps are the same deal lol. Baby spiders are actually born with 10 walking legs, 2 of which later become the pedipalps

What about making the fish move out of water inside of a sphere of water? I love watching you make this world!

Woah this is so cool!

remember, the leg is always composed of a Femur, Tibia, Fibula, Tarsus, metatarsus and digits. us, humans, are plantigrades, this means that when we stand our tarsus, metatarsus and digits are touching the ground. dogs are Digitigrades, they uses only the digits to stand up and walk . so, to solve the "Dog problem", give him "Bigger Feets" and make him walk with his digits.

What spore should've been. That 2D pixel art shader is insane btw. The water shader is equally insane. Any info on that?

"This kind of game looks like a game that you'd find in a mobile app store, and since it has monsters, we can rename it to pocket monsters. If thats too difficult to pronounce for some people, we can just shorten it to pokemo-" "Oh."

Hey, doesn't seem like you are continuing this series but I wanted to say this is the coolest procedural 3d modeling I have ever seen. I was planning on doing something similar for my game but gave up because it seemed way too difficult and am planning on doing 2d procedural sprites instead. Have you ever considered making this into plugin or something you could sell? I would for sure try and make it work in my game and I imagine other people may be super interested too.

Big fan of fish here: I think its okay if fish float. Personally if I saw a fish in the water in a monster catching game and I couldnt catch the fish, I'd be very sad.

If you can add varying stiffness to the entire bodies of the creatures, I think you can get a more realistic look depending on how you vary those parameters per creature. Having the full body all wiggly on something like a salamander looks great, but not so much on the dog. If you made the torso more stuff, but kept the tail just as wiggly on the dog, then i think it would move more dog like. This could also help with insects, where only the joints connecting particular parts actually bed, but the parts themselves are stiff. And stiffness would allow you to create something like a turtle more easily down the line.

i think you should let fish flop around like magikarp out of water

I would love to play with this creature editor. The idea you introduced in your last video where giving your creature items early on in its evolution would change how its final form looked sounds really interesting. I can't wait to see where this goes!

Your game looks so amazing! That procedural monster generation and movement is super impressive!

You could make marine invertebrate themed land animals (like the paddle shark you showed in an image) that would fix the gameplay issue while simultaneously adding cool variety and still fitting in the theme

I keep getting recommended this video despite there being a newer one Atleast it keeps reminding me this game will exist Eventually

I likie that, since you've already made the backbone of this system, you can just show us "making an ant using a lizard" like that, super cool.

You've actually managed to procedurally generate animals without completely abd utterly fucking up everything like how no man's sky did

Dealing with bird wings seems relatively easy, when they "close" they can just play an animation and transition into a texture on the body, then stop rendering them until they open again

3:43 who's That Pokémon? It's rattata!

This is CRAZY. I would be so proud of myself if I coded something like this. I think theres such a beauty to procedurally generating art for you. You earned yourself a sub at just 3 videos.

Dunno if you're still active, but keep it up! If this video series ends here imma be real sad. You were a big inspiration and I started coding again after watching your videos, man.

Those were the craziest 2.5D sprites I've seen. They literally look like perfect 2D sprites.

I'm just discovering this series and holy shit. There's nothing I don't enjoy so far. Your humor is great, the content itself is great, the animations are great, the textures are great, I CRAVE more of this and I want to play this game

This is just too good! You are by far one of the greatest GMS devs I know!

First of all: This is sooo cool²! To the mammal-problem: I guess the problem is the skeleton. Look at a dog and a lizard and identify their middle-hand bone. Dogs basically walk on their fingers/toes(Metacarpal bones) while lizards are more like humans, which walk on their carpal bones. The uncool part is: There are only two types of this - they are either 0 or 1. Everything in between doesn't make much sense. So a transformation is difficult, i guess. Maybe if you scale and rotate it in some way... Your solution is totally awesome. Maybe even better than reality. So keep on coding!

This game on appearance alone has me sold. What a beautiful world! Thank you so much for this insight into its development, it’s so fascinating seeing the hurdles a dev encounters when bringing their vision to life.

KZfaq finally recommended me your channel, and I have to say this is some of the coolest game design I’ve seen in a while!

Very cool! Nice work on the mammals. I think the most noticable difference between a lizard and mammals is, the lizard legs sticks out from the side of the body, while mammal legs go down from the body to better support its weight.

Just keep coming back and watching these videos over and over. So stoked!

this looks so good I love the style so much and the animation/ way they move looks so unique I love it!

This is neat! If you are still trying to figure out how to incorporate fish on land, may I suggest a solution? Since you seem to be going for a pokemon/digimon/that type of game, I would assume these monsters are going to have abilities and moves, most of which will stretch logic for the sake of coolness. To have fish on land, you could basically have the fish continually "using a move" like water jet, but aimed downward, which would suspend them in the air on a cushion of water. From a physics perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but from a cool perspective, it's pretty cool. Best part is that you don't have to change the fish animation/movement code, all ya got to do is a little particle fun and viola!

This is ridiculously underrated content.

I like the physics and how smooth they all move around 😌 smooth animation scratches my brain the right way.

so happy youtube decided to recommend this to me. Love the art and movements, love the idea of being able to generate things, like I can spend hours on "generator" sites (e.g. character gen, story gen, map gen, color pallet gen, etc.). Seeing someone else create something where they can do this themselves and create new combinations that become whole new exciting things is just so cool to me. It's almost overwhelming, because it reminds me that there are means out there for me to learn this sorta shit. Wobbledogs scratched the "creating new things and ideas through generation" itch for me recently, briefly, but I'm hoping in the future a little more creative and intentional control is offered to the player. At least with more ease. Time to check out more content from this channel now

Bestiary: The monster creator

ive always thought procedural animation was cool and this is just super cooler

UGH IM IN LOVE WITH THIS, thank you for this incredible gift you are blessing the world with

perhaps for the fishes you can incorporate a lore reason like you give them a bubble blessing and they can follow you on land, maybe the blessing wears off if you want to make it a consumable, but i love the idea of fishes swimming in air behind the player

is that a game? i need that

How is that possible 😐 I have never seen a generative tool this powerful

This is my first time seeing this channel, from the first seconds if seeing the came i can tell it's gonna be awesome!

That king dude should be a mascot of some kind.

Hey man! Just gotta say, I'm really glad the algorithm threw you my way. This whole thing looks rad! And I'm really excited to see where it goes. One thing, though. While I think it's really cool that you have a diversity of invertebrate bugs in mind, I think it might be good early on to include features to turn off at least spiders if the player wants. If not a selective grid of animal types you can remove from the game. As amazing as procedural animation may be, making a game where extremely fluidly animated spiders, insects, and/or snakes can just *exist* at massive size might set off more than a few phobias. And I'd hate to see this game get less play for something like that impeding people's enjoyment. All the best!

Dude you need to come back and show more about this project? How did you do this

In monster games I prefer all monsters to be usable so it would be better if there was like environment limits so fish could only be used in water or maybe an item that allowed fish to be used on land (robot legs,Levitation pad etc)

This is genuinely the most impressive thing I've seen in years regarding to computer graphics.

You gotta upload broo

Are they 3D models rendered in a 2D plane to look like 2D sprites? The animation is so smooth.

Love the animations for the monsters they look so smooth.

the little spider jumps were adorable

“I also made a in game body edi-“ Me: Woah woah woah what are the properties and how the fuck did you do that. You are able to change the size, Color and smoothness to your monster and I’m here procrastinating how to sinc animations. Great job 😺👍

I love how your werewolf looks quite hyeena-ish. Hope you'll keep it like that :3 Hyeenas need more love

I love the movement, it gives me serious rain world vibes and that's awesome.

The coolest procedural animation video. You've made it look so simple. 😮

Some suggestion game title names: 1.Animalimbo (If the game meant to be more on mechanics) 2.Pixabeast (General game based on pixelized style) 3.Creatura / Explorature (If the game meant for adventure) 4.Limb walker (Again mechanics) Sub 2 channel ❤️ great job

Please do more videos :(

dude these are some of the coolest sprites I've ever seen. next level

I love the way the creatures move; it is very satisfying.

godlike developer and godlike videos

The movement here feels like Rain World in 3D. I suppose procedural movement just has a very specific style. God, Rain World is cool. And this seems pretty cool, too.

I’d love to see how this works in depth and behind the scenes, this looks amazing.

I like this, theirs movements so smooth and satisfying

what happened to the game? got a discord maybe? i really hope it didnt die..

This is looking great, are you continuing this project?

The Donkey Kong Country music at the end of the dog part hit me right in the nostalgic feels. Thank you.

You sir, are a freaking genius. This has to be one of the collest projects i've ever seen

This is the best procedural generation I've ever seen!

First video I've seen of this project and from you in general but it looks dope as all hell. Def sticking around for this!

I love the way they move so much

First of all, hooooly shit what an awesome pile of code, kudos to you for programming this. But the one thing that came to mind for me was how much character movement animations add, since most of your creatures keep their movement patterns. Thats why things like monster hunter are so dope IMO, not only do they pump out awesome visual designs, they back all these designs with pinpoint animations

I just found this randomly and this is such an incredibly interesting idea! Can’t wait to see more(:

legless sea creatures on land could swim around in an adorable levitating bubble

How about giving the player weighted boots and a star wars style re breather. Then have an underwater section of the map that is identical to the normal section but underwater and the player walks along the seabed. Also trying to add that way that water surfaces distort light to make a wiggly glowing lines on the bottom would really sell the effect in shallower area (www.georgiaaquarium.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/yellowtail-snapper-2-1440x454.jpg). Also consider making a deeper areas where it is more of an abyssal reef. The cool thing about deepwater reefs is that there is not enough light for zoozantheli to survive so they are almost enturelt sea sponges and anenomes that filter feed the microfauna that flows through the area.

The aesthetic is gold bro. Good work!!

Hijacking my memories with all the classic video game music references.

Just discovered this channel and this project looks so cool👀

I'm jeallous of dedication and talent.

God, I love this style. It's so cool!

Love your work. Great animations.

This animation looks so smooth compared to most pixel art. Great job!

this is absolutely gorgeous. Really impressive stuff

YOOOOOOOO THIS LOOKS SO COOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!! Really hope you stick with this idea because it's an answer to so many prayers and what a lot of "monster breeding" games _should've_ been.

i am extremely enamoured with each and every one of these excellent creatures

Those pixel monsters are so adorable for some reason :3

Man that looks crazy, procedural mesh (and animation lol) generation seems so cool!

The animations is so smooth!

Omg I'm in love with these animations, I now want to implement this myself.

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL. Bro, how. Like what. Im your new fan

shape shifting is really neat actually

Pls never stop with this game its so amazing!

Got this in my recommendations but wow! This game just looks so good!

This is really cool just found out about your channel through this video being on my recommended page.

man all this procedural stuff is actually so sick

This is truly art. What a beautiful thing!

This game looks super cool, and as an observer, I definitely have a couple of suggestions and praises. #1 this looks fantastic, it reminds me a lot of earthbound, which is one of my favorite games. I’m really sad that ocean creatures won’t be included, but a way you might be able to fix this is by combining certain sea creatures with other land animals. Like an octopus using its legs to slink around, or a flying fish, or manga ray, flying all the time. This is of course, you’re game, and I think it is incredibly well polished for such an early stage of development, and I can easily see this being something a young child would look back on and say “I remember when I played (insert game title), gosh, I should go and play it again”. I’m excited to see what some of the story elements are, and I think this shows you have a lot of talent as an animator, coder, and overall, as a creative. Keep up the fantastic work, I’m excited to be able to play it.😁

I really love this style!

The art style looks amazing

Such awesome art, you are very talented

2:02 I love that procrastination is with Triple Triad music. I procrastinate ffxiv msq with that, so it matches me so well