Procedural Walking Animation in Minecraft 

CORRECTIONS: - Sorry about the audio balance. Closed captions are available if you need them. - At 5:47, the correct term for the 3rd rotational axis is "roll", not "tilt".

My guy wanted to show a step-by-step process for procedural animation and ended up creating a terrifying abomination. 10/10.

Imagine you're simply living in peace in your cube-shape limited dimension, and some arachnid tentacle lovecraftian horror starts galloping towards you at full speed.

Its so crazy how a few fluidly moving linked blocks can incite such strong pattern recognition. The 10 segment no constraints model was terrifyingly marvelous.

the fact that you got it to walk on different levels so smoothly blew my mind away. it would be perfect for a horror map or something . time to binge watch your channel

...a mob that can walk accross gaps and even parcour-looking platforms? sounds like a nightmare, you make a mob-proof house and that thing casually ignores all of it

The version with no rotational constraint and a lot of leg segments would be absolutely horrifying to spot slinking around in the darkness.

It's literally a series of lines of code in the shape of a quadrapedal spider, but it looks adorable for some reason. It's genuinely trying to walk.

The fast gait was absolutely terrifying

"Here at Minecraft Dynamics we make the most advanced walking robots in Minecraft."

I like 10 segments and no rotational constraints. It's absolutely terrifying.

I really love the way the 10 segments + no rotational restraints one looks! Such cool slithery movement

this would be such a cool horror mod if this entity had behaviors as well such as 'chasing player' 'exploring' or 'watching'

I was already super impressed and then it started walking up blocks and I shit myself

1:28 "let's accelerate the body forward" *Spider creature proceeds to slowly leave reality*

Watching the hard work and logic that goes into this makes me feel as though I have a parental role in raising that little spider guy. So proud of how much he's grown.

From the little programming I did in school, I could kind of under stand the “building blocks” so to speak, of your method, but getting it to crawl up and over gaps blew my mind! The answer is always so simple!

Give it the ability to hunt and kill the player, and place it inside a horror map

There isn't enough Bane Of Arthropods in the world for this thing and I love it, 10/10

2:05 imagine pulling out a carrot on a stick and this thing starts chasing you 💀

It's so weird how we immediately feel like something is sentient when it moved a certain way

The idea alone is better than 99% of minecraft ""horror"" mods, witch are just loud jump scare + instakill. Words cannot describe the mixture of fear and excitement I felt when I saw the one with ten legs and no r constraints.

this would be very cool for a horror map

“Next I would like the spider to respond to gravity” *spider hovers and grows impatient*

Steve-made horrors beyond my comprehension. Man, procedural stuff is so awesome...

If they re-worked the spider to use this animation, they'd be so much more unsettling.

The bit at 7:30 made it look so alive; stepping up and almost looking like it was looking around. That was so cool.

bro is doin more work on minecraft than minecraft devs ever will

I can't say that I have ever been interested in doing these kinds of programming myself or really programming in general but I find an odd fascination with these step-by-step videos and the like that showcase how something is supposed to work and how you got it to that point

A single man has accomplished what Mojang would complete within 2 years, 5 updates, and several dozen snapshots.

Holy shit the era of "look at this cool thing I did in Minecraft" videos is BACK, baby

i absolutely love that they moved away from java, to let community be able to do things such as this

The implications for the different types of spiders at the end are incredible. Could be a really cool mod with lots of different types to be afraid of

this felt like a parent teaching their child how to walk, well done.

The way you dealt with discontinuous terrain was very interesting. A true developer you are!

This would go hard as a modpack. Like a fleshed out, horror gamemode exploring ruins and fight variations of these creatures, maybe a giant one wandering around slowly in the background. Sign me up.

i love how youre the first guy to apply some of my favorite tech in minecraft, imagine modded creatures with procedural animation and how everyone's minds would be blown, but look at how straightforward it is to implement

this guy is doing a better job than mojang itself using unity tutorials in youtube, respect.

This guy single handedly explained procedural animation beautifully and in a intuitive way.

Speaking of that, there is this mod I have seen on a video: "Vital Deprivation", that use procedural animation for the beast! This is such a coo feature for a horror mod!

Seeing that thing figure out how to balance along the trapdoors was terrifying

Everyone is talking about horror but I, for one, find this thing very endearing. I want it as a pet.

The 10 segment with no rotational restraints was so fluid going up and down it's insane! I'd love to see if you can get it to switch axis and climb on walls and ceilings as well! Amazing job !!

These "creatures" would be perfect in a horror map or something

This is insane, minecraft maps bouta get even crazier

This is the spider mod i wanted as a kid. It is truly a blessing getting your vid on my recommended

As someone who has recently got a procedural generated walk cycle working in unreal engine, this is honestly such a simple easy description of how to get everything working, and i honestly wish i saw this video before i made my attempt lmao.

That would be such a good subtle horror mod, like you're just casually mining or collecting trees and that thing crawls by or over the tree canopy

The discontiguous terrain would make for a banger chase sequence

Not only did you create a really slick arachnid creature, but you demo’d the development process, AND a lot of the demo was done with a version of the creature that allowed you to set variables w/ command blocks that demonstrate its functionality at different stages of development. EDIT:( forgot to explicitly mention all of the tooling that you created for testing and for demonstrating the different pieces of it, it’s honestly crazy impressive. I don’t know how much work the spider was by itself but I’ll bet the tooling was equally time consuming, or comparable to a degree /EDIT) Hats off to you on the amazing production quality of the video, as well as the absolute banger of a spider. I honestly think the high segment count no rotational constraints version of the creature would be amazing if you could get some kind of fantasy horror particles for the particle renderer, maybe the end or the underwater temples have one. And, if there’s any way to put a ceiling on the number of particles inside a given volume maybe the clipping with all of the segments inside each other becomes less of an issue visually and it can just be some horrific creature made of fog that slithers around

This is actually a really really good general guide in programming procedural walking

all you would have to do is add a decent hitbox, set health and change the noise from netherite blocks to whatever surface the legs are touching and you'd have an INSANE and scary mod. nice work

You know, I don't want this to sound like I'm accusing you or anything, but seeing this makes me realize that I'll never be a good programmer like you. Not because of skill or knowledge, but because you have this... Spark of curiosity. You decided for yourself to make this as an experiment, as a test or just because you wanted to see what would become of it. You asked a question and decided to answer it yourself. And I think you enjoyed it. I don't have that spark. I just wanted an "easy job" and went for a programming career because "I like videogames". Instead of doing exercises like this I just waste my time playing the same games over and over. I'm complaining endlessly and I don't mean to make you feel bad or think I'm angry or sad. I just want you to know that I'm in awe, in wonder. This video once again made me realize the work and little tricks that go into making a game. And it makes me appreciate old games that were revered because of their innovation and ingenuity, such as Half Life and others. In short, thank you for making this video, and thank you for reminding me why programming, while sometimes a big pain, is wonderful.

This is just insane. I can't express how high quality this is and how amazing it is that you released this for FREE! Also, 10/10 spider looks like something straight out of my nightmares.

This seems like a perfect system for rainworld in minecraft, which someone is already building the world but this could flesh out the creatures...

"Minecraft isn't a horror game" The spider:

That one without Rotational constraints gave me chills

I really want to see mod makers take further advantage of this in their mods, this was amazing

would be interesting to generalize the way it detects "surfaces", probably using 14 rays. That way, it would be able to identify walls, and even walk on them.

This walking system should be used in every single next-gen game, this is some of the best procedural walking I’ve seen, and it’s in MINECRAFT

The high speed combined with no rotation would make for a terrifying mob to see in a cave

Dude you made something really scary. And an all-legs monster is actually a great concept for this game.

feels like we're in a minecraft renaissance

I'm happy you chose for a metal clank nose rather than organic spider like sounds. Made it a bit less nightmare fuel to just imagine that it was maybe just a killer robot rather then a fleshy hellish spider being

If this ever gets added to minecraft, the update better come with automated turrets. Because otherwise there's NO WAY I'd feel safe.

This is what i couldn't imagine when block displays were added, really impressive!

that's some rainworld stuff right there

Its FASCINATING to see how the algorithm begins to adopt the rudimentary manerismas of actual animals.

One of the best explanations and demonstrations of IK chains I've seen in a good while, great work!

I'm a big fan of Rain World, and you explaining this using minecraft is really neat! :D it makes it seem so simple.

A directly player controlled version actually seems quite feasible given your clever “laser pointer” direction system. Great job.

If this guy made one of those dweller mods it would be 100x scarier than the scariest dweller mod

The one with 10 segments and no rotational costraints literally looks like a lizard from rain world

If this guy creates a horror map, I will most certainly soil my pantaloons.

6:40 this one looks great, it has something "alien" and unsettling to it, reminds me of Mimic from Prey (2017)

Imagine doing this type of animation update for the zombie mobs. Those things would be crawling through windows and doing parkour just to get to you.

This would look so cool in a horror environmen

the no rotation constraint variants at the end are absolutely terrifying

I love the heavy sounds you gave the spider and the fact it makes it feel like it actually bumped into something at 6:47, without it I think that would have felt unnatural. Honestly everything in this video was great, I want to see something like it in-game someday... even if that's just because hitting it with a stick sounds reaaaally satisfying.

There is so much potential for this, for horror mods, for pets, for everything

My god I remember when people where having their minds blown that you can make spheres with command blocks years ago

This is a work of art, I'm incredibly unnerved. It moves disgustingly smoothly, and it activates the "DANGER, IS SPIDER" part of my brain. I would like to see this in a horror map, the sound and image of this chasing you down a tunnel or a darkened hallway would terrify people. 11/10 good movie, amazingly creepy creature.

20 segments no rotational contraints looks terrifying

this is EXTREMELY applicable for use in horror maps and I LOVE it

Imagine seeing this thing sticking to walls and crawling around the roof of a cave. This is a perfect horror mod in the making.

You literally explained how procedural animation work in a way that makes me understand like seriously many other creator explain how this works in a really complicated way

Lot of people are saying this would look terrifying in game, yet I can't say anything other than this for me is a beautiful work of art. Even more so with your step-by-step explanation to explain how it works.

you could create a horror game using these spiders

This is like how Rain World's AI works, using procedural animation for it's creatures! good job!

This is actually far more understandable than any other teaching material I have ever seen. I never knew that Minecraft have so much potential to teach coding concepts before watching your video. I absolutely love all the content you make ❤

Marry me. No, i'm not talking to you, i'm talking to the spider!

Finally, procedural animation in Minecraft.

Man i wish mojang hired to implement more procedural animation, you're a total pro

Man, the stuff people can do in Minecraft sure has come a long way

Just a few seconds in and this video had my undivided attention. Not only does the process get explained, it´s also very calming to listen to, both in voice and sound effects (The clink clonks of the spider legs hehe)

You just casually showing for an example a clip of a tentacle made out of bubbles in a lab-like environment mercilessly attacking a chicken is straight out of an eldritch horror story

imagine a boss like this but it's a netherite spider as an actual nether boss

6:48 get bro a cup for that 💀

that fast gait part was absolutely terrifying, great job

It's amazing how many emotions this walking creature made me feel.