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Comment by account42

17 hours ago

Even HL2 is mostly just normal (FK) animations. IK is just used for limited cases, namely making sure feet touch the ground on sloped surfaces.

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redox99  12 hours ago

Yeah that applies to any modern game as well. IK is used for touchups and procedural stuff. Everything else is FK (obviously during authoring IK is used).

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