Entry 148

The characters bob and crouch by their animations too

2026-10-162mrender

Filescrates/rugrats/src/actors/animator.rsnpc.rscrates/rugrats/src/world/game/mod.rscrates/rugrats/src/levels/grandpas_teeth.rs

Worklogs 137, 138 and 147 gave the player's body the height its animations' root keys put it at on the ground. The other characters run the same code (0x80056834 into 0x80055904) and were drawn flat.

RootCurve (actors/animator.rs) is the rule of worklog 147 on its own:

• the base track's root curve so far;
• plus where the body was as the animation began, blended away over its first frame;
• a finished animation's rest goes into the next one's start.

Each Npc keeps one, stepped after its animator. It is drawn under the character's position.

A body other than the player's (0x800c5680's character) moves by its root offset (hierarchy +0x4c) over 0x800c41dc. That is -561, peeked in levels 1, 4 and 6. The NPCs' curves are scaled so: a baby with a root offset of -354 moves 0.63 of its keys.

All tests pass.