Nucleotide - Game development diary #4 video

Greetings people of Internet, my name is Ivan Mandić, but you may call me iVan.
Welcome to the fourth Nucleotide Game Development diary.

For all of you who didn't watch Nucleotide development diaries before, I'm showing the progress made from the last development diary, which was seven days ago.
You can find all other diaries on the FrozenPixel studio YouTube channel.

This week I started to work on tongue wrapping mechanics.
As before, once you enter the items collection area, tongue fires by itself.
The improvement is that the tongue actually wraps itself around the item.
It makes a knot around the item and drags it towards the player.
Although this looks much better than before, it is not yet finished.

Same thing works if I fire the tongue with the left mouse button. The tongue is a bit longer in this case, and that makes the animation more obvious.
The player can move freely while the animation is in progress, and the tongue will behave naturally.
I still have a few bugs to fix, but that will be done in the next few days.

As I said in the last development diary, the idea is that the tongue will wrap itself around various irregularly shaped objects.
I gave my best and made that idea come to life.

If you watched my previous development diaries you are familiar with grabbable environment elements and floating objects.

First i will demonstrate the tongue wrapping around a model I made for this video.
I put two of the same models on the scene, but with different rotations and scale.

Once i fire the tongue in the direction of either of those, the tongue wrapps properly, and the player is being dragged towards the object.

Last thing I want to show is the most interesting one.
This is a grabbable floating object, as you can see the player can push it around, change it's position and rotation, while everything else will still work fine.