Devlog

Making the model for the tentacle segments a little smarter.

What’s next after the tentacle can attach to a surface?

First attempts at having the tentacle touch a surface.

Starting from the base, point tentacle segments at the target one at a time.

Adding tentacle constraints doesn’t improve the behaviour.

What if I start with IK to generate a solution then, separately, animate to that solution.

What did you do today? I watched octopus videos.

Wherein the struggle of implementing cyclic coordinate descent can only be overcome with the help of some visual debugging.

Wherein the tentacle reaches out with unfashionable acute angles.

Wherein the protagonist gives a status update shorter than this summary.