Claw swipe

A big four-legged creature rears up, its front left paw drawn up to its chest, and rakes it down at what is before it as its body drops forward. It hits as the paw comes down.

Use it in a cartoon Change it in the move maker The pack file (JSON)

What it is for

A dragon, a bear or a big cat fighting in a game, or a cartoon creature that takes a swing at someone. In a game it is an attack: give it to a creature's fight as one of its light attacks, beside a bite, and it will open with either one. Saltwing's dragons do: they bite or claw what stands before them, and sweep their tails at what stands behind.

The principle it shows: a warning you can read

A big creature's attack has to be seen before it lands, or the fight is not fair. So the swipe is in two clear halves. First the creature rears: its chest comes up, its head goes back and one front paw is drawn up high. That is the warning. Then everything comes down at once and fast, the paw raking forward and down as the body drops onto it (ease in), and the hit is marked there, at 0.42 s. The other front leg braces, so the weight has somewhere to land.

The program, line by line

when it starts
  show the side view
  at the same time:
    — 1:
      glide dy 0 over 0 s
      glide dy -9.375 over 0.28 s (out)
      glide dy 6.25 over 0.14 s (in)
      glide dy 3.125 over 0.18 s
      glide dy 0 over 0.3 s
    — 2:
      glide dx 0 over 0 s
      glide dx -12.5 over 0.28 s (out)
      glide dx 31.25 over 0.14 s (in)
      glide dx 18.75 over 0.18 s
      glide dx 0 over 0.3 s
    — 3:
      glide torso 0 over 0 s
      glide torso 14 over 0.28 s (out)
      glide torso -10 over 0.14 s (in)
      glide torso -5 over 0.18 s
      glide torso 0 over 0.3 s
    — 4:
      glide neck 0 over 0 s
      glide neck 12 over 0.28 s (out)
      glide neck -8 over 0.14 s (in)
      glide neck 0 over 0.48 s
    — 5:
      glide head 0 over 0 s
      glide head -8 over 0.28 s (out)
      glide head 4 over 0.14 s (in)
      glide head 0 over 0.48 s
    — 6:
      glide left leg #2 0, part:leg:-1#2~out 0 over 0 s
      glide left leg #2 125, part:leg:-1#2~out 20 over 0.28 s (out)
      glide left leg #2 -20, part:leg:-1#2~out -15 over 0.14 s (in)
      glide left leg #2 -14, part:leg:-1#2~out -8 over 0.18 s
      glide left leg #2 0, part:leg:-1#2~out 0 over 0.3 s
    — 7:
      glide right leg #3 0 over 0 s
      glide right leg #3 -8 over 0.28 s (out)
      glide right leg #3 6 over 0.14 s (in)
      glide right leg #3 0 over 0.48 s
    — 8:
      look angry
      wait 0.42 s
      set flag_hit to (tau)

0 s — the body up 0, the body forward 0, torso 0, neck 0, head 0, front left leg 0 out 0, front right leg 0, the face angry.
0.28 s — the body up 3, the body forward -4, torso 14, neck 12, head -8, front left leg 125 out 20, front right leg -8.
0.42 s — the moment marked hit, the body up -2, the body forward 10, torso -10, neck -8, head 4, front left leg -20 out -15, front right leg 6.
0.6 s — the body up -1, the body forward 6, torso -5, front left leg -14 out -8.
0.9 s — the body up 0, the body forward 0, torso 0, neck 0, head 0, front left leg 0 out 0, front right leg 0.

Try this

Take 0.5 s to rear up instead of 0.28 s: a slower swipe, easier to see coming.
In the program: ramp · over 0.28 → 0.5
Rear up higher, to -12.2 instead of -9.4: a bigger, angrier swipe.
In the program: ramp · to.dy -9.375 → -12.2

How it differs from the others

Bite strikes with the head and keeps the feet down; Pounce throws the whole body forward; the Tail Sweep is for what stands behind. On two legs, a person does a Slash instead.

Works on

The two in the film above, and what the move turns on each: worked out by the build, which plays the move on each body and checks what moves. Nobody types this table.
Who	Moves?	What moves
Sunny (one of the six people)	yes	whole body, turns, body, head, arms
Grump (an animal on four legs)	yes	whole body, body, head, front legs, back legs, tail, ears

c4c:beh:claw_swipe · version 1.0.0 · c4c-free · by Jabbertoon