averagemoe
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It may be an artistic stretch, but what if when you create a custom avatar for a custom character, you could define the various moods that can be selected in the menu seen when ediding a speech command.

It would work like this, have the help screen say that when creating custom avatars they can be given diferent emotions by placing multiple images next to each other. If only one face is present, it will be the only one shown for that character.

You may also have a second row below the main row as frames of a death animation. If the image has only one row, the nervous expression will be shown instead.

Then all caravel has to do is decide on the order to arrange the emotons in, and make the scripting engine do exactly what I described above. Maybe throw in an ingenious system for eye movement involving black and white images of eyholes? They could upgrade it one feature at a time, we got all the time in the Eigth.

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[Last edited by averagemoe at 09-23-2012 12:46 AM]

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I didn't know this wasn't already possible. Of course you should be able to set moods for custom avatars, so, yeah, I agree.

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Jatopian
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I could've sworn this was already possible, except for the death animations. I mean, I don't think all the playable characters' expressions are hard-coded.

The death animation customization sounds fine.

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The Architest
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It is possible, but it's available only for Beethro, Halph and Gunthro.

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[Last edited by The Architest at 09-25-2012 04:31 PM]