Really nice effect, dude :0

for those who didn't get the head rotation code: I'll give a brief explanation 1. direction = target.position - transform.position; basic vector math whenever you want a direction vector between 2 points, you subtract them. 2. float angle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.y, direction.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg basically calculation angle like in a unit circle. now you might ask, why is it y and x and not x and y because coordinates will be (cos, sin) it's because unity's angle system as 90 degrees of offset, and sin and cos also have the same, so we exchange them. It will also work if you did x and y and subtracted 90 and Mathf.Rad2Deg does what it says. 3. Quaternion.rotation calculates rotation on the z-axis(Vector3.forward) based on the angle we provide. 4. we use the calculated rotation to rotate the head and that's it. hope you got it. :D you can watch Sebastian Lague's video on trignometry for more details.

I absolutely love procedural animation, it makes games look so much more interactive and real

I love your art style, I’m surprised how well the smooth, blurred backgrounds work so well with the crisp cartoony art.

This is so amazing! I always adored these smooth juicy Trails, Thank you so much for sharing this amazing tutorial noa and owen!

I asked about this in the comments for your recent gamejam entry video, maybe you saw it. Thanks for making this video, these kind of things are great to learn about! :)

Absolutely loved this inspiring tutorial, especially because I am a nerd for procedural animation, and what it does to open up young minds to math and science they learn in school! Thank you...

Your tutorials have helped me out with my own game, Stop the Saturnians, so much! Thank you! This one in particular taught me how to build the Centipede enemy ships. Thanks again, really appreciate what you do :)

I LIKE THAT TITLE! Thanks for this tutorial ,it's really appreciated!

I can't believe you did a tutorial about this. I asked you how you created this in your BTP game and voila' .. a whole tutorial about this :) This is awesome! Thanks for your fantastic videos!

Can't thank you enough for your tutorial. These type of creatures I hadn't ever thought of making it, because of the complexity my brain created. Thank you very much!

Dang this is so cool! I'm gonna try this in my current devlog project, thanks for sharing this :D

Perfect timing, exactly what I needed right now, thanks!

Dude this video is a life saver. I was trying to get a worm enemy in my game right for days now and this is just perfect!

This is awesome! I love doing procedural animations on gamemaker, so your video made me super exited to try it on unity!

This was super fun to make! Thank you blackthornprod and Owen for sharing :)

This is going into my playlist of Very Helpful Gamedev Stuff

Super cool Noa! Now I just need to figure out what to use this for in our 2D world 😀

Thank you! Gonna use this to animate ropes in the wind for my 2D metroidvania! I was animating all of then by hand - think about time consuming….

Really nice effect. Ive been using the built in particle system's trail module for basic trails at the moment

Finally some quality tutorial :) Good job !

Vraiment les meilleur Tutorial. Merci :) The best Tutorials man I LOVE YOU

Thank you. Powerful examples inspired me to use this way instead of animation keys.

You are back to tutorials I like that

8:48 OMG I KNEW THAT WAS KEKE AS SOON AS I SAW IT. Also i need this for my project soon so thats awesome that this vid happened to come out

BlackThornProd you are a god Your art is great and there is nothing to hate Your the best keep up the good work

everyone say it with me... thanks owen senior and noa! it looks great

As always, super fun, super informative and super easy to understand. May the Lord bless you always.

I really love the effects and flow of these creatures with long tails or wings, so smooth and beautiful, how I would love a game without obstacles , just a fun discovery of beautiful movement art like yours and music to go with a fabulous world created, like an animated story , what do you think NOA? 😉

What a great use of the Line Renderer. Nice one dude

Dude who made it THANK YOU!!!!

Wow this is exactly what I was looking for!!! Thanks a lot 😁

Amazing! Thank you so much for uploading! ;)

Another good tutorial as always!

Very beautiful effects.

I was looking for this, thank you so much man

awesome stuff, Owen and Blackthornprod. Would love to see tutorial for 3D effect!

That’s very cool thanks for sharing and shoutout to Owen)

Nice video! I´ll 100% use this for one of my games

Some really nice uses for the line renderer, now I just need to learn to make art.

If only I had seen this earlier. This looks awesome :)

I am gonna add this technique to my sprite mask and modify it a bit..... thanks for the tutorial btw

Now this is *something* else

Great, thanks, just what I was looking for.

Hey great tutorial noa !👍

Awesome, thank you! You seem to always notice where there is a tutorial gap on youtube :)

Black On The Block! Great as usual! Black is the new Brackey!

definitely saving this one for later

Alright, let's do this Noah! Thanks for this, 🥰. Will be using this in my game. Love your art style, will surely check out other game Devs you mentioned. ❤️

this is exactly what I needed! Im making a platformer and I want the main character to have a nice looking scarf that follows him, and I think this will look perfect. there's something ethereal about the style of my game so I think the lack of gravity will only add to that. edit - I put it together and *I love it so much!*

Awesome work!

Quick Tip: To simple rotate transform you can use transform.right = -direction; transform.right = direction; transform.up= direction; or transform.up= -direction, depending on which direction you have a sprite

Amazing effects. Is it possible to have mesh/rigidbody effects on these trails? That will allow them to have colliders and give/take damage....

Thank you Owen!

Thank you Owen 😊

Thanks... very good tutorial

thanks, owen, you saved me

How would one go about procedurally animating the clothes like the ones on the character from 0:34 to 0:37?

Im trying to figure out how to make it so the tip of the tentacle can attack things. Almost like an IK where I can have a target that pushes toward something. Let me know if yall have any ideas :)

The secret to good platformers is hair physics. (cough cough Celeste cough cough)

Thank you Owen

Thanks Owen!

Welcome back tutorials.......

Beautiful

Gotta save this for later

Yeah, this is a really nice vid

Nice video good job 👏

thank you owen

Imagine now using a All In 1 Sprite Shader material on top of this awesome stuff 😎🔥

Excelente..!!!, muchas gracias..!!

It’s been a long time since I watched blackthornprod :)

Love this effect, putting it to some use in my latest prototype. However I am trying to increase the scale of my player GO/Sprite when they collect food but the "tentacle" does not scale with the parent object. Anybody got any ideas on how I could do that?

I'm a Man of Culture and I have seen Enough Tentacles to know where this is going ✨

Really love your vids, just a request, please post videos more often.....Thanks....!!!!

Great tutorial. Thank you. But I am shocked and said "Oh my god! I love those characters" at 8:48 . He seems to be nailing the style. When can we play that?

Great help! thank you. quick question please: Could I add this procedural animation to an already animated mesh 2d character? I mean imagine a dragon, that when you turn it left, you see more of it's side and under belly (adding a 3d effect sort of), while also applying this procedural animation to it. Thanks for anyone who can help me with this information.

What videos/channel should I check out in order to learn how to create the sprites from scratch (size, how many pieces, application) for 2d skeletal animation like darkest dungeon, shank, mark of the ninja etc type games?

This video was amazing! I do want to point out though, that the script requires the ResetPos() function to work correctly. In your example, the character was placed at Vector3(0,0,0) in the world, so it worked fine, but it is a problem if the character is placed anywhere else. This is because the first point is placed at the character's position, but all 29 other points show up at Vector3(0,0,0). When the game starts, the tail will be stretched all the way to the center of the world and then retract to the character. Running ResetPos() in Start() works great to fix this :)

Hi, when are you going to release the multiplayer tutorial? I love your videos btw.

Nice tutorial Really appreciate it I can’t seem to get my Tentacle 1 object to move Don’t know why

i know in kinda late, but would it be possible to add a collision to the tail, i couldnt find any solution because it is moving by transform.position

hi, love your content! may I ask one question: is there anyway I can make a tile- base plant ( seaweed for example) that apply this procedural animation and can be add or remove length? Thanks in advance

Amazing tutorial! How would someone add some kind of gravity effect in case we want something similar to a tail or hair that looks naturally influenced by gravity?

is there a practical way to get collisions from the "tentacle"? im guessing there isn't but i have some fun ideas if there is.

I really try to recreate the tail of the fox in a character and I can't do it T_T, it gets longer all the time and if I manage to stop it from getting longer it doesn't move naturally. Thanks for the video!

I'm super interested in the way that fox's head was made. Is he 2d as well? Looks more 3d or perhaps 2d perspective code manipulation

What if I have to detect collision of trails? Is there any solution of it?

At first It was giving me a bunch of array errors but later I realized I forgot to reference the line renderer inside the tentacle script, lol don't make my mistake but is there a way to make it so that player sprite is facing up instead of the right?

hey can somebody help me its saying that target is invalid even though I followed all the steps.

How can you make it, that when you stop the mouse, the tentacle will squash and then again stretch instead of just stand still?

awesome

How to make glide in unity for 2d game?????? Plzzzzzzzz help

Can I do something similar to move through but with velocity?

YESS I ALWAYS IEKD THOSR

I know its been 2 years, but how would you go about taking it a step further to simulate like a real life tail that sorta flops around like the rainworld slugcat tail?

how can I add collision physics to the tentacles?, you know... to not clip in the walls

I was looking for something like this a few days ago xd

is it possible to add collision to the tentacle/hair/ whatever? Would you just have to add like a rigid body to it or something?

hey yo, how can I add collider on the tail so I die when I touch enemy tail

Hi, I just want to ask if I can do it with a Cape, or Cloak wave animation using this? ^_^