How Good Are Valorants Animations Really?

The new RGX knife is nice and all, but how well is it animated? Only one way to find out... let's slow it down!
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[@amivlr]

The Butterfly Knife inspect animation was actually done in real life and then recreated in the game, so it doesn't have any "entire blade clipping trough finger" moments, except some clipping when it comes to how the character model holds the knife.

[@Archmeton]

Interesting!

[@alexalt1215]

yeah unlike csgo inspects these look very accurate to actual balisong flipping

[@amivlr]

Here's the link to the video for anybody who's interested, the original creator submitted the clips to Riot and they actually added it to the game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goPHaZaohad8r8U

[@dombuilder1197]

Afaik they sped it up since those fast movements aren’t really possible irl. Don’t take it as fake some dude on the internet told me that it really could just be false. If anybody knows more about that please tell me about it.

[@amivlr]

@@dombuilder1197 It's not sped up, you can check the video link I sent above if you want to.

[@magpineapple]

the step transitioning is completely intentional and not a mistake, its purely for player feedback so there can be an instantaneous swing

[@vibekage]

Thank you!

[@Cytrus-]

As a butterfly knife flipper myself, the animations for this games balisongs are absolutely beautiful

[@erebosbossbossboss9679]

Not really. They are not so smooth. In csgo it feels way better.

[@Cytrus-]

@@erebosbossbossboss9679 The CSGO animations are unrealistically slow, so I have to disagree but I can see your point.

[@u-thix2436]

@@erebosbossbossboss9679 CSGO's animations are so unbearably slow, just because it's smooth doesn't mean it's realistic, I have a balisong and it goes almost as fast as the Valorant ones.

[@erebosbossbossboss9679]

@@u-thix2436 I never said that its not realistic but its way smoother than in valorant

[@cheesemaster3187]

@@erebosbossbossboss9679 wrong.

[@someone-nf3ui]

The RGX 2.0 knife actually looked extremely good

[@ur_hot_cupcake]

Thanks for reassuring my decision of dropping 50 dollars on a free to play game.

[@someone-nf3ui]

@@ur_hot_cupcake no problem, I am now bankrupt but at least I have a spinning blade in a videogame.

[@elyeschaibi9656]

the animation for the rgx is actually a combination of 3 butterfly trics in real life and they nailed it i have one in real life and they respected the original moves from the irl one if anyone has one and want to learn the valorant inspect it's a behind the 8 balls in to a index rollover in to a shortstop

[@Archmeton]

Thanks for clarifying!

[@prometheuspickle2946]

use punctuation

[@thatnico8697]

tbf, this is most likely due to animation compression, when you animate the object it looks perfectly fine, but when you export it, the keyframes get cleaned up a bit and this is most likely an interpolation error because some keyframes moved or got deleted

[@gills10975]

if anyone needs proof of how good riots animators are they should just watch arcane, Good video!

[@Archmeton]

Haha, yeah riot really keeps impressing me, can't wait to see what else they have in store for us :)

[@user-hp6pi3sm8k]

riot didn't animate arcane though.

[@fortnitelover911]

@@user-hp6pi3sm8k yes they did wym

[@solderfumes]

@@user-hp6pi3sm8k true, but, who cares

[@pubaguh3199]

@@user-hp6pi3sm8k wasnt it both riot and fortiche? or just fortiche

[@mackmgb8017]

By the way, The Glitchpop dagger was the first dagger to release and came out before the Ruin Dagger

[@atha.1998]

wasn't the reaver dagger available back in the beta?

[@mackmgb8017]

@@atha.1998 Oh yeah, that’s true. However, It didn’t come back from the beta until quite a bit after Glitchpop released and has had various changes to it with effects and things

[@nolosun260]

Could it be that the gloves from killjoy make the hand model of her bigger thus the clips? Would be interesting to know and i would bet they are designed for the jett model as a reference.

[@Archmeton]

The kj one is just a slightly bit thicker and it would still go through anyway

[@cathyh3294]

try breach

[@andreighinescu4946]

Bro the kliksphilip inspiration is apparent and I love it

[@Archmeton]

Made in 2 days, lets keep this up till my holidays

[@Archmeton]

Some speed values are wrong, whoops, thats when happens when you rush!

[@6grease]

why did it rhyme did you do that in purpouse?? 😂😂😂

[@martinnhantran]

@Archmeton 2:46 It's called *Glitchpop* for a reason mate

[@d3luxy]

O this came up on my recommended, and uh nice video! A possible theory of the stab animations, is to like make sure all the stab animations are in “sync”, what i mean is so that every knife has the same stab period(bit lazy tbh, but the knives they make are like so good)

[@SleepyOrbit]

Im so glad i can do the butterfly inspect irl because i know DAMN WELL IM NOT GETTING ONE IN MY SHOP

[@hastblend7859]

The knives where it moves to 1 place to another is actually a common animmation as your brain fills out the emmpty spaces you are just overlookiing them lol

[@Archmeton]

no riot pls fix

[@scoutboi1601]

The butterfly knife animation is stunning but it isn’t possible to actually do it that fast as the ‘index rollover’ and ‘ round the 8 ball’ were too fast

[@edang352]

It’s def possible, but it takes a lot of experience

[@stampwastaken9450]

This music is actully calming

[@JeepV4]

as someone who played with balisongs, i can tell you that while our fingers do not clip through, they do get in the way

[@ogkurppa6703]

those butterfly knife tricks look so crisp coz they are real and really addictive to do irl

[@English_person]

4:27 UNDERRATED transition

[@Mazangui]

those clipping are fine actually, i thought you were going to cover terrible clipping like in the CS:GO's deagle. But here it's like milimeters of clipping so, imo, it's completely fine

[@archtect1953]

If you use vipers ult right before pulling out a knife, it will bug all the knives on valorant but the one I’ve seen bug the most is the butterfly knife it has a weird animation

[@d.h.a.1912]

These are some minor problems as compared to some games where character gets stuck at some point or starts floating on ground so no big deal

[@davidjohn_va]

4:27 underated transition

[@whitman1343]

The ruin and and catrina daggers have different right click animations than other daggers. Since the ruin dagger has a blade on both ends, they had to give it a new animation so the player wouldn't stab themselves during the normal animation. And no, it isn't perfect. It clips a couple times.

[@momisbored8327]

U need more respect man, like your editing is so much better than most large content creators. Don't let that get to u though, I respect the grind and I hope u keep making videos

[@Archmeton]

Thank you for the comment and the heads up!

[@sauce7927]

What a great video, watched it all the way through. Keep it up

[@Archmeton]

Much appreciated!

[@koshkamatew]

unupgraded rgx blade has a random default knife sound if you repeatedly swing it, riot please fix

[@zxck.parrIG]

Man you're super underrated, keep grinding you're growing fast

[@Archmeton]

Appreciate it

[@iakovzhitomirskiy1569]

I feel like "UI animation fps limit" should be an option to increase game fps by reducing the quality of the ui animations like I need my enemies' movement at at least 60 fps but I really dont need my hands to be moving at more than 30

[@Archmeton]

Or more customization like in cs:go

[@del5575]

i finally found a val vid that i actually enjoyed

[@serjgaming1622]

the origin operator that just spins straight through the character (it's off camera)

[@giorgiovanni_2736]

Bro, i learned the butterfly inspect animation irl.

[@xXGabrielTrapXx]

Animations are meant to be watch at the speed they are in, not meant to be slowed down, kinda obvious don't you think? Pause anime and you get funny shit, cause is just to make the animation more fluid

[@shawn-d-_-9706]

Respect the grind man

[@petkananastasov1538]

the butterfly mostly clipped trough kj's glove since it makes her hand bigger

[@apamexe3970]

Underrated af. You just got a new subscriber, 3kliksphilip of Valorant :)

[@Archmeton]

Haha hope to be just like him one day

[@aksvinss]

the clipping through in most of these knives is, in most cases, because of the agent's hands. kj has a glove, and that might have not been thought about by the devs, since adjusting the animation for every agent is painful.

[@branislavbabinec1430]

as a balisong flipper, yes my fingers do clip into the knife while flipping

[@Nepu_Nep]

The first dagger animation weapon was actually reaver back in the beta

[@paulusdergelehrte6167]

how you just didnt mention the best melee in the game which also has exclusive animations the RGX Blade :(

[@xarthuss678]

Im sad

[@moistsock8293]

the vids are lowkey really underated

[@Gaminguide1000]

Just because you said "Winterwunderland" right you deserve more subs

[@yuzuru5872]

How you make the Slowmotion so smooth bro wtf

[@Youjvwhw]

3:08 im pretty sure first one was reaver knife but ruin is the first with the right click

[@magieenvtuber9783]

First Dagger that was in the game is Reaver i belive, cause it was in the game back in the drop based beta and had same animation

[@nova8424]

That transition was cold

[@lukelbl8347]

what about the ruined blade. aka the ruination knife.

[@skuudsss2662]

Rgx katana: *Uhm.. Where r u guys?*

[@venb]

Something on my mind, like the hitboxes where all agents have the same hitbox. The animation is probably made through one agent

[@llamacraft6678]

butterfly specialist are crying rn once they heard rainbnow twister

[@Spyziy]

The protocol knife is the most buggy thing ever if you mess around with it a bit it does a bunch of weird things where it can get stuck so that when you pull it out it does the animation for dagger then wil just like slowly flow through your hand up and over into the knife form. It's very buggy its kinda funny. It also doesn't have a colored swing on every third hit as well as some other things where it jitters around back and forth in your hand just a really buggy animation it's funny. Wish I could send a video but youtube deletes my comment

[@Hexie094]

you mention some knife skins being thicker than others but ignore some characters have thicker hands than others. KJ has gloves which is where most of the clipping seems to happen, but with someone like phoenix his hands wouldn't have that extra layer of thickness leading to less clips

[@ezi_qurnia]

animation has dependency on ping and packet loss,. Yeah this is true, sometimes when i got bad ping, my agent does reload animation to melee weapon. this is not a critique, but, better you show your ping and packet loss during this research.

[@Archmeton]

I appreciate the heads up! My ping is always 9 so it's pretty solid, but I get where you are coming from

[@IOwnKazakhstan]

I remember I saw someone say that "the CS butterfly knife feels more real but the Valorant one doesn't look like it's actually doing it" As someone who has seen this video, i call cap.

[@cathyh3294]

the combo is done perfectly but it is a little fast for the human hand to keep up because the way the balisong kinda flys at its own speed, i can do the inspect in real life and maybe if i try my hardest to make it fast it is possible to get the speed in the game, just isnt realy realistic

[@Nuovoda]

as someone who flips balisongs i can confirm that cs:go is unrealistically slow where as the valorant one is pretty realistic

[@firecreeper21]

For the Long arms, did you forget the Gaias Vengeance? Or am I stupid...

[@bootdrive7087]

another amazing quality video, keep it up

[@ciel7291]

rgx blade just stopped existing

[@jitiroyacamg804]

Keep Up the hard work!!!

[@Archmeton]

Appreciated :) Mostly struggling narrating atm, but we keep it going. Thanks for the support

[@michaldrotar6452]

Ruin is not a dagger, it's a karambit, rightclick is much more closer to a karambit that a dagger, the inspect is a dagger inspect but right click makes it closer to karambit

[@Lazidiz]

OCD viewers are proberly suffering from this

[@Arrays23]

you know what, "riot pls fix" is a thing now.

[@blazecube3866]

the glitchpop dagger doesnt show whole animations when set on left handed, kinda feel robbed bc of that. riot must fix that

[@rgbd3542]

finaly! ive found 3kliksphilip of valorant..... missed that guy a lot when i switched here : P

[@Archmeton]

Same! Figured I'll try to fill that gap, its not easy though, especially when you start developing these videos yourself you notice how much effort goes into it. Would love to meet him one day to see if he can give me tips :P

[@rgbd3542]

@@Archmeton oh my! i wasnt expecthing this from u for som reason ;p but great TO HEAR this, & gl in ur future meeting with that man IN Dream or irl : ]

[@hankookofthewest]

bro ignored rgx katana like i ignore my life problems

[@jacobh6120]

rgx pro blade? didn’t see it anywhere

[@jackfilford9721]

glitchpop was released before ruin

[@idominix]

We learned that nothing is perfect in this world.

[@ozziesergal]

5:56 how to loose your index finger 101

[@zuf645]

I love reaver karambit and rgx butterfly knife or champion butterfly knife

[@diliscollective9743]

man just wanted an excuse to watch rainbow butterfly animation all day, so he made a video lmao

[@tengentopka727]

I was watching Neir Automata animation and they cut off anticipating animation to make it responsive or else the player had to wait for a second or two which gives them the feeling of lag, something this are intentional I guess.

[@colefoster8036]

They animated their fingers to be behind the blade stab 2 and 3 and that’s what you do in a spin like that so stab 2 and 3 were fine

[@Sukhme]

You could try the PBE client to test out (new) knives & skins for free.

[@Archmeton]

Havent got access :((

[@darkside-tr2gj]

i love ur channel! ur like the 3kliksphilip of valorant lil

[@adeonnn]

I can see how you got inspired by 3kliksphillip, he is indeed a great KZbinr, and i think someone need to fill his style of content Valorant, keep up, as im subscribing, good luck

[@Archmeton]

Yeah for sure

[@pxzinea]

bro picked killjoy who have a thicass gloves

[@cxeron]

you just gave rito 50 hours of homework

[@RarePupper]

Where blade of the ruined king at 😨

[@DrippLovesPizza]

what about the xeouhunter knife

[@Memory_Disk]

The protocol knife does not seem that have animation issues f what I know

[@ryan-we1ml]

seriously? I think they already did a pretty great job

[@alexandersterenstein3544]

how about rgx 11z pro blade

[@Archmeton]

Forgot about it my bad!

[@cathyh3294]

kinda has its own pull out

[@Yetha148]

Jinx sheriff spin animation?

[@SoraZera]

I just realize u can inspect chamber’s ult lmao 00:35

[@abhinandhari7812]

U remind me of kliksphilip? If that's his name, similar videos to yours, but in csgo

[@Archmeton]

haha yeah, hes amazing

[@avokadoes]

Idk but apex and csgo bfk animation looks good to me while there's sth off in valorant.... can someone explain if u have the same opinion? :(

[@sidewinded1]

What category is the prelude knife? It has an entirely different holding animation

[@Ziolefrfr]

I want butterfly knofe

[@tomtrickster3778]

ok so no hate or anything and is a great video and all but who tf actually slows the animation down during rounds. And what would Riot gain from fixing it?

[@Archmeton]

its just a gimmicky video, nothing serious 🙂

[@michaelchurch9840]

chill bro you dont have to say "riot please fix" when one pixle glitches through the gun. its either that or its too far from the gun since the agents have different hand sizes/gloves/ ect

[@Archmeton]

Riot please fix your lack of understanding of sarcasm!

[@lachlanteh4313]

@@Archmeton 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@Agentfirestarter]

@@Archmeton LOL I love how you respond to haters

[@A-VI_6]

what about rgx 11z pro blade

[@yourlocalgroovecat2709]

hey fun fact animations are really hard to do

[@Archmeton]

No way really?

[@SamAx.]

The clipping arent really that noticable so i dont really mind

[@demolitionskydive4890]

try it with a character with more meaty fingers

[@Fecomint]

nunca olvidados means never forgotten in spanish, and you pronounced it... like it was your first time

[@donuthole850]

Honestly who ever notices

[@brentonsisemore1122]

Not perfect, but pretty darn good.

[@WillFairfaxSKI]

VAl balisong animations are simply too fast. I own a balisong and I can do a trick almost identical to the animation, and even when I go at my fastest it never comes close to the speed of the VAL one.

[@anakuma0027]

The valorant balisong animation is actually based off a real life recording of a balisong, I forgot who but they got some balisong YT creator to do it for them and it's up on KZbin

[@WillFairfaxSKI]

@@anakuma0027 Well imo it is still an odd choice to use as a clip. Something that slightly more people can understand and relate with seems much more sensible.

[@davidpogi8000]

Wdym "riot please fix" you're saying like it's so easy to do that. You weren't even supposed to slow it down. If you really wanted it te be "perfect" you should try it yourself to animate something like this and I bet that you wouldn't get any closer to what riot animators are doing.