The Weaver is a 2.3 m puppet-like horror creature made for PSX / PS1-style retro survival horror games. It wears a cracked porcelain mask and carries an iron frame on its back like a spider web. It moves like there are strings attached: it hangs there with its head down, then snaps up and comes at you one jerk at a time. From the same facility as The Dragger and The Vent Crawler.

Features

- Low poly PSX look with flat shading

- Rigged down to the fingers (two bones per finger)

- Mask and back frame are rigid, they never bend or stretch

- 9 animations, 8 in place + 1 with root motion

Animations (30 fps)

- Idle_Hang, hangs on slack strings, head drops and snaps back (20 s)

- Idle_Listen, stands still, jerks its head towards sounds (20 s)

- Walk, puppet walk (2 s loop)

- Walk_Hang, walks on its toes like it's held up (6 s loop)

- Walk_Struggle, jerky walk fighting the strings (6 s loop, root motion)

- Run, fast puppet run (4 s loop)

- Attack, raises one arm and brings it down (2 s)

- Hit (0.7 s)

- Death, the strings snap and it falls on its face (3 s)

Enable root motion for Walk_Struggle.

Technical details

- Triangles: 3,827

- Textures: 1 x 256x256 (PSX), 1 x 512x512 (cleaner version), PNG

- Rig: 42 bones

- Formats: FBX (mesh, rig and all animations in one file), Blender source file

- Tested in Unreal Engine 5.5. Set the texture filter to Nearest for the PSX look.

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