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Star rail one isnt even walking on stairs tho, them just levitate slowly 😂

Bro the WuWa rank was pure bias, you can see it's clearly awkward.

Wuwa's knees seems weirdly elongated . While ZZZ is the best

no way you gave wuwa 8\10 thier knees look like they could break at any seconed from going up the stairs bro 😭😭😭

I wouldn't call wuthering waves have the best staircase walking animation... I mean, that look awkward even though their feet do really step on each step, but it just looks like skipping one step at a time.

NO, Wuwa's movement is so unnatural, no upper body movement at all, even when their foot don't clip through stairs, they look like robots!!! 6/10

1:05 Excuse me what? Best animation so far? Are WuWa fans actually that blind, look at their Knees bro 💀

I feel like right now genshin looks the best. Their legs and body didnt move awkwardly, the leg dont randomly snap like wuwa and zzz. Althought sometimes it clipped through the stair, overall it looks nice and clean

Genshins was okay. Honkai star rails characters didn't even looked like they are walking on stairs it looked like they are just walking on a straight path. Wuthering waves for some reason rover walking the stairs made me laugh tho it was okay okay. Z.Z.Z's was so far the best they were actually walking on stairs

In wuwa the feet still phase through the stairs lol Also the animation is stiff af clearly biased rating lol 8/10 my a**

Fun fact, the stair hitbox needs to be smooth for walking to be optimised, but the way the characters walk is different depending on the character so they bend and clip a little

Even though in genshin the feet doesnt land on steps or sometimes out of bounds, the animation is so smooth and it feels natural unlike in WW and ZZZ the bending of knees kinda weird and the spacing of steps in WW is huge comoared to others. HSR has its own way if waliking in stairs 😂😂😂

Wuthering waves does not have walking upstairs animation. You can see that their upper bodies behave the same as if they were walking forward. The walking upstairs is handled entirely through inverse kinematics, which is not the same as bespoke animations. It's basically algorythm that forces their legs to raise to match the elevation of surface they are standing on. Which is why it looks kinda awkward. It's obviously better than nothing like HSR, but I wouldn't call it best. If anything, despite being less precise, genshin's upper body movement matches the legs better somehow... can't belive I am complimenting genshin.

genshin with its clipping issues looked fine to me cuz the secondary hand motion (the waving arms) looks good, it's like there's a weight to it. also the characters are looking up. i think it should be scored higher. HSR = 0/10. i think they dont have a special animation for stairs, just regular walking animation. holy that wuwa animation gave me nightmare.. it's good but somehow very wrong, like some sort of uncanny valley. if they would just lean a bit forward and it'd be perfect. belle slouch a bit so it helped alot with the animation. She looked down the steps, and also the bounce is very good.

Might be a bit biased toward wuwa there buddy.

I prefer smooth and natural movement like genshin , even they don’t step accurately on the stair 😊

Somehow WuWa looks even worse than HSR, i'd prefer no stair animation over that nightmare. ZZZ has almost the same problem, while being a little bit better. Overall GI was the best

Bruh how can you rate Wuwa 8/10 This problem has got me tingled as a first day player. The animation is so bad and their clothes are clipping during that animation too bruh😭

Tell me you’re a Wuwa simp without telling me

I appreciate Genshin's posture leaning slightly forward though. The other 3 examples look so silly maintaining that 90 degree angle torso when their legs are going to town.

How do you walk up stairs? Rover: BIG STEPPY!

Now you know why it's called Honkai Star Rail not Honkai Stair Rail 😂😂

genshin actually has the best one and more natural motions, aside from the feet missing the steps... wuwa looks like the characters' backs are too stiff, and the leg motions are a bit awkward ... hsr has the worst for sure because its basically normal walking animation

WuWa makes their upper bodies look like uncooked spaghetti noodles

Bruh WW one deservers a 6/10, not 8. Its hella unnatural, there's no balancing at all like in Genshin (Characters don't lean) and worst of all is that the legs don't even raise themselves to the next step. It just straight up teleports to the next height. It looks goofy as hell.

I don't know man, for me walking in WuWa looks ugly as hell. Sure, in HSR they got lazy and didn't even change the motion - characters walk as if they were on flat surface - but it is still relatively good to look at.

No way you are rating WW's as the best. Look how lanky and weird those characters move.

I remember how once I needed to code something similar to a step animation for a university project... It's hard... like really hard... and the solution I found was probably super unoptimized as well... But to me, WuWa and ZZZ look super weird, It might be a hot take, but I think genshin nailed it the most out of these four, instead of focusing on the part most players won't be noticing, they added extra detail to the motion people would be paying the most attention to... going back to the project I mentioned, I ended up scratching that Idea, and instead, just lifted the camera upwards a bit when using stairs so that the feet weren't as obvious. sometimes the easiest answer is also the correct one

Fun fact because Wuwa is using Unreal so the way it was done is totally different from Zzz and Genshin, pretty sure unity engine already had similar function for characters climbing a stair I am not sure why it wasn't done for Star rail tho

WW walking animation always looked a little less smooth to me compare to GI and ZZZ. But hey making this stairs animation better is kinda tough. Most AAA games also struggle to make it perfect

Wuwa body is just upright not leaning.. it looks weird. Like they only made legs and arms swing but forget the rest of the body

Walking in wuwa? No no we run. 😅

Why do I always feel so strange when I see wuwa characters climbing the stairs? 😰 Their feet seems elongated?

i dunno, but in my genshin when my character steps on stairs feet stacks perfectly to the stairs, not floating like that

nah wuwa is lower than genshin. who walks up the stairs with their body leaning backward? genshin gets it right since the characters lean forward.

Wuwa's problem is that the upper body doesn't move with the legs so it looks like they stretching like their legs some kind rubber.

Genshin 7/10, HSR 0/10 (no animation), WW 5/10, ZZZ 5/10. Can't really rate the games much higher when RDR2 does far better stair matching, I'd give it a 9/10.

something about the wuthering waves animation is unsettling, the way their knees bend so much??

Wuwa's is kinda like me trying to walk on wooden stairs without making any noise

I dont know why, but Wuwa's creeps me out, they walk like weird aliens

8 for WW are you sure ?

wuwa's doesn't look better than genshin's, genshin characters lean forward to maintain balance when climbing the stairs which makes it 8/10 for me. wuwa characters' feet pass through the stairs as well when going up and their limb proportions don't look right which makes it 6/10 for me

Is genshin the only one where the characters look up/down when going up/down stairs

Didn't realize how the feet is always stepping on stairs because most of the time the player just running

Starrails animation looks like they are walking on an invisible slanting plane

The only thing I see is that is hard to animate characters walking on stairs 🤣

Tbf there actually not many AAA openworld games with fully accurate stair walking animations that dobt look jank in some way. GI and HSR basically focused on the animation itself using proper body language elsewhere to make walking look somewhat convincing if you don't examine it up close which if Wuwa did would make theirs look more natural

I feel like a problem that both WuWa and ZZZ share in common is, it feels like they're walking backwards and not lifting their legs high enough above the ground nor tilt their torso, which makes it look like the feet just slide up and get rubbed against the stairs. Or for WuWa, it feels like the characters lift up the knees a little too high, which makes it look like they're crouching and dragging their legs instead, while the characters' torso is completely straight Genshin nailed it pretty well in terms of movement, it doesn't feel stiff or unrealistic, with the exception that the characters are practically floating over the stairs or even clipping through HSR just wasn't meant for moving around as openly, it's more combat-focused and it's more about the story than the walking, so it's pretty fair that they didn't bother making an animation for walking up the stairs, especially since they would probably have to tweak a few things in the mechanics and the models. Most of the surfaces are pretty flat, so it's only normal All in all, these games did really well in this video, but they all have their flaws of course

Admit it. Genshin has one of the best stair animation. Be it the domming-bopping descend or the im-bout-to-beat-the-shit-out-of-you ascend

I still remember in GTA V when your character sprint/jog then met stairs, they will take small stippy step adjusting their feet to individual stair steps

The rating towards wuwa was pure bias ngl

imo genshins the best then its a tie between ww and zenless and hsr doesnt have stairs animation

The glazing on wuwa is crazy💀🙏

Wuwa looks like an exhausted marathon runner when the legs are about go give up😂😂🙏

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Genshin's stepping animation issue happen when they make QoL update for Ayaka/Mona sprint to not stuck.

Notice how the ZZZ showcase is on a better angle 😂

Wuwa was a solid 1/10, it’s creepy. ZZZ 8/10

Animating step movements in unreal engine 4 is easy but mobile devices will suffer from performance issues of UE4

I like how in GI the characters lean forward when walking up the stairs. I can't see from this angle whether ZZZ also does it though.

Wuwa devs: *taking notes*

No wuwa character angle looks weird I still think genshin stair animation is best

IK on the legs interacting with the stair objects. It's difficult to match the rhythm of the animation cycle and how high the steps are if the animation is done manually especially the speed of the stair climbing cycle animation. The character movement is done on the engine they basically animate the character walk and run cycles in place so a lot of back and forth or a lot of tuning for the one implementing the animation to the engine to make the running animation perfect and to not see the character kinda ice skating on the stairs or ground when the walk and other movement animation plays.

wuwa's animation is literally me when the stair is too short to walk one by one

HSR: stairs are upwards flat plain, no characters interaction to the geometry GI: similar to HSR but characters physics can moderately interact to the stair WW: just like genshin but it’s trying a lil too hard to make every steps land on the stair(results in weird animation) ZZZ: WW but more polished👍🏻(still can be janky tho)

IMHO WW is the worst here. So jagged and unfinished. - horrible inverse kinematics. HSR not even tried to make stair animation, it is just a walk animation with z axis movement. But even that looks better then WW.

Zzz = Wuwa for me just different angle

I just got a zzz ad, then a honkai ad, then a genshin impact ad 💀💀💀

Can we have character summoning animations comparisons for these games next please?? I haven't seen one yet

In any case, the animations for walking up stairs in all games look really cool, but they also have problems

The bounce animation to me seems 10/10 on zzz

Why do we even have this ? Like i understand if it's something like the ladderish kind of stairs near that one hilichurl camp ,but who even goes and checks for normal stair movement ,wouldn't most just dash(or grapple in wuwa's case) whenever they are moving ?

Zenless Zone Zero only has to animate 2 characters so it's easier. You can't see your gacha characters outside of combat 😢

I wish you could explore the map using your characters in zzz (but belle is good too)

my opinion: 1. zzz 2. genshin 3. hsr 4. wuwa ・wuwa is low because of the streched out knee

I didn't even notice this until now, thank god that I don't need to see it because it looks weird and I'm always sprint cause I'm in a hurry..

WuWa is also the open - world game, the detail also affects slightly for elevated floor

I feel like wuthering waves looks like how aliens would try to imitate walking up the stairs. It looks stiff and awkward, and kind of wrong.

I did not know people were actually taking the time to look at how characters walk up and down the stairs, I'm always just zooming around, and using skills or techniques that make us move faster (like Sayu's sonic dash in genshin and Acheron's technique in star rail) EDIT: maybe ZZZ's is the best because there's only one out two possible models for players to use when free-roaming, so maybe that made it easier for them, since they don't have to account for different models (like child model and tall model, or all the different outfits for different characters) just my two cents, I don't know how it looks for the agents in missions though, then again, I don't remember there being any stairs during missions

How can you rate genshin and star rail even more than 1

After watching this video i forgot how to walk on stairs

Wuwa one look like they legs are straining to do that

No way wuthering waves stair animation is the best, it looks so weird to watch, even though I can't pinpoint it exactly, it looks unnaturally funny especially rover

1:00 "wuthering so far has the best stair animation"... What? The order is as it follows: Genshin > ZZZ > WuWa > Star Rail. I would understand if based on this video you think ZZZ has the better stairs animations (you were probably only looking at their feet), but you aren't taking into account that depending on the stairs Genshin can look much better, and that from either the front or behind it pretty much always does. On top of that, it has actual "on stairs" animations that are different from normal walking. They are pretty good for open world standards in general, so when it comes down to female characters, people love to show them walking on stairs. The rest of the games? WuWa doesn't have unique animations for the upper body, and legs look weird af. ZZZ is fine, but lower body movement isn't as good as in Genshin (I'm surprised that, being the type of game it is, ZZZ's animations are that good), and Star Rail doesn't even have them.

Name of the song used?

Most of these are usually done automatically by the game engine. It adjust the animation when walk on different elevations. Of course it never perfect.

Wuwa’s characters look like their legs are breaking when they walk up the stairs lol

Wuwa’s got some serious joint popping going on there. I’m literally studying animation and had to constantly figure out ways to prevent that… Stairs don’t make it easy…

What was going on with rover's knee 😭😭

What i learned from this, wuwa has the best collision, zzz has the best animation (but the they still clip while walking).

WuWa characters knees have me concerned Also is there a stair animation for honkai impact 3rd?

"that is not how to walk through stairs". HSR: "rule made to be broken".

0:16 casually steping on air

wuwa ones looks like those military parade XD

Jinhsi: (Walking on her invincible stairs) Me: Yessss Queen!

Wuva looks like walking in squat lol

I played all of the games 😂 but I never really focused on the animation 😅

Personally, I think genshin has the besteven though the feet go through the stairs they have movement that makes the characters look like they're actually walking up stairs and not slowing levitating or glitching

My eyebrows was like 🤨 wuwa characters knee could break any moment and who climb the stairs with straight back while raising the upper leg higher, it’s like taking steps two at a time. The upper body is so stiff compare to genshin. In genshin, the characters leans forward and the hand also move naturally and it does look smooth tho

The ZZZ animation is done at a different angle. It seems like their knees are sticking out but it is difficult to tell due to the camera.