#Red dead redemption 2 horses cracked#

When you begin to slow down on one of Red Dead's horses, it moves into and keeps deceleration cycles running but waits for an input that can instantly transition that into an acceleration cycle. This concept became known as the 'Don't stop moving' principle internally, and even applied to stopping and starting. So Rockstar moved towards a system of continual acceleration and deceleration rather than one shots, continuous cycles or varying speeds and non-fixed transitions. Initially Rockstar tried 'one shot' transitions, one-off bespoke animations, but these introduced problems: it was difficult to control speeds when inserting them, the foot cycle defined the transition, and ultimately the transitions weren't smooth. This gets rid of the discrete speeds problem of the more functional early horse, because of the freedom to cycle gradually through them. There are four basic gaits and speeds of Red Dead's horses: they can walk, trot, canter and gallop.

#Red dead redemption 2 horses cracked#

This was apparently incredibly tough to get working right but, once they cracked it, ended up being applied across the game much more widely. The pool is narrowed-down based on the horse's surroundings, speed, encumbrance, mood, and so on, then stitched-together. The idea is essentially that, rather than Red Dead's horses having a load of bespoke one-off animations for each different gait or speed, the team would create thousands of smaller animations which would be assembled on-the-fly in-game. Though the team began thinking about an 'automation' approach to animations, some were sceptical about whether it would work. Kleanthous talked about how the team had also added input lag to make it feel like Arthur is controlling an animal rather than a vehicle, and how these elements were coming together into the game's 'anatomy of drift'. There were clips of dressage which would be incorporated into the horses' gaits. Lateral movement became a key part of the horse design from that point, a movement essential for light turning, and, Kleanthous added, one of the most difficult features to get right.ДЄnother video showed a horse pivoting on its front feet, with them positioned under its chest, and turning laterally rather than vertically.

Rockstar started capturing footage of real horses in Scotland, with a video example showing how a real horse, for example, before turning would side-step and then lean into the turn.