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hi,
i know people are going to say search,which i have but,
i wondering if there is some sort of script that,when you press use on a civilian that, the script tells it to play an animation and sound

-so when i press use on a civilian it's mouth moves and says something.

-the animation will be it's mouth moving,the sound will be what the character has to say

is that possible??

thanx

-Tj
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Can be done with a lot of effort if you animate a models face by hand - though the results are less than perfect.

There are software progs around that might be able to help model the face via auto methods or with some users participation - results can be better. TGC have one available for use with DBPro - though Id dont currently work with any sense of auto use for FPSC as far as I am aware. Its set up for use with Max I beleieve. Truesapce has a plugin capability for facial animation - there may be other possibilities - I am sure there are.

In all instances the control to play the speeech and facial movement would have to be scripted.

All in all in FPSC case its going to be a lot of work somewhere along the line - you would need be prepared to take that on. It may be difficult at the end of the day to control the speech perfectly inside FPSC - someone trying will answer that.

I have a characeter I tried doing facial animation on by hand - works reasonably well - though it needs a lot more work.

Im sure it's possible

It's possible, but it will never seem realistic (the best you can do is to show like MDK2 (models move head/mustache then in the bubble speech they have 1 small head wich shows the mouth animation) or like in HL (the mouths simply open/close but show no reaction, just like a ventrillic doll (you know, those dolls that you sit them on your leg, have your mouth closed and make it look like its the doll speaking insted of you)).

You will need to make each animation, then in FPSC make a script so it uses correctly each animation.


Really hard to do, and way to much time spending, but, 1 thing is for shure, if everything is sincronized correctly, it looks way cool and will give a really big thumbs up to your game rating.


EDIT: The way i say it will never look really realistic is that, for a nice face expression you need to have a "highly" detailed head (more then the normal), and most of our members are having trouble having a nice detailed level, if you spend to much detail on NPCs, you won't be able to use much detail on the levels, either way, the game will be unplayable.

I gave 2 small game exemples, wich you can google in the case you don't own the games, so you see how they made it, it's really a simple speech type and it doesn't require lots of "head details + animating", also It's always easier to see life exemples that passing everything to text, isnt it?