Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:21 am
Replacing Trent''s head
Once again one of my simple, but difficult to solve problems.
I've tried replacing Trent's head. Works fine. But in the mission sequences, when he is talking it looks more like he is chewing instead of speaking, with the jaw and the cheeks moving, but the mouth not opening. But not only in mission sequences, but also in regular talks with characters in bars.
My first thought was that the .dfm-files of the other heads were missing some animated parts. My guess is Trent's head has other animated parts at the lips then the standard bar characters. This would explain why the heads can't perform Trent's dialogues, because Trent's speaking animations use these other animated bodyparts. (They also can't just use aditional ones, because the lips are not moving at all, and not just partly.)
Or am I doing very wrong here?
Can somebody confirm this or give another explanation -- maybe even solve the problem?
What I'm trying out next is using heads from other major characters from the storyline. Cuz if the standard heads use other mouth animations than Trent, it would most likely be because Trent's mouth is supposed to be animated more smoothly. (I've compared a simple head with Trent's. A normal head has 52 parts, Trent has 83.) If so, maybe these smooth animations were also applied to other heads of major storyline characters, like Juni or King.
I've tried replacing Trent's head. Works fine. But in the mission sequences, when he is talking it looks more like he is chewing instead of speaking, with the jaw and the cheeks moving, but the mouth not opening. But not only in mission sequences, but also in regular talks with characters in bars.
My first thought was that the .dfm-files of the other heads were missing some animated parts. My guess is Trent's head has other animated parts at the lips then the standard bar characters. This would explain why the heads can't perform Trent's dialogues, because Trent's speaking animations use these other animated bodyparts. (They also can't just use aditional ones, because the lips are not moving at all, and not just partly.)
Or am I doing very wrong here?
Can somebody confirm this or give another explanation -- maybe even solve the problem?
What I'm trying out next is using heads from other major characters from the storyline. Cuz if the standard heads use other mouth animations than Trent, it would most likely be because Trent's mouth is supposed to be animated more smoothly. (I've compared a simple head with Trent's. A normal head has 52 parts, Trent has 83.) If so, maybe these smooth animations were also applied to other heads of major storyline characters, like Juni or King.
- another reason i long for a new UTF editor that supports drag and drop node importing and more advanced features
), one has to take other heads. As these can't be animated correctly, we need to use other animations with similar length for the dialogues. Of cource the lip sincronity will be history if this is done. Fair enough.