npc choreographing

how can i do this im trying to make something incredbly simple and i cant even try to do it can someone give me a tutorial somewhere on how to do it i really need to know XD

It would help a great deal if you would tell us what you're trying to do :razz:

Natus said:
It would help a great deal if you would tell us what you're trying to do :razz:

I guess it's something like this.

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Ha ha ha guess what if you can read my writing then its perfectly fine english until i need to do an essay or anything else taht takes great deal in writing correctly now if you want me to spell like a little child like tis andd hav relly bd spelig i ges we cud do tis

but for the people who want to help im trying to make a scene in the beginning of my map where they move their mouths and move their hands like normal talking and another guy saying "yeah" and thats it lol

It's up to you, but if you can't even make the effort to be coherent, then I don't see people rushing to help you. The fact that I can understand you means nothing. I'd guess that close to half the members here don't have english as their 1st language, and many others see it as a waste of time trying to help someone (that seems unable to work out what a full stop is for) to use a complex 3d editing program.

As for "the people that want to help", if you'd taken my advice and stuctured your question a little, then your chances of getting some meaningfull response would, without question, be higher than they are now. But like I said, it's up to you.

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i eat paint

OK, I believe we now have an understanding of what it takes to ask a proper question in a forum? If so, I'll attempt to do my best to answer your question...

First off, here is a link that will explain EVERYTHING you need to know about HL FacePoser. I will try to annotate what I think will help you understand it...

Beyond the choreography, the phoneme construction may get a little confusing, because there is a bug ATM within FacePoser that will not allow you to auto-extract from the sentence you type in the Phoneme Editor. There is a way around this for now, but if they fixed it, or if they ever fix it, this method won't be necessary:

[NOTE] You may want to come back and read this AFTER attempting to add phonemes to your character in the Phoneme Editor tool. You will then understand better by what I mean.

In order to get a sentence to extract in the Phoneme Editor, you will need to already have a .txt file with the sentence typed in it already. If you try to type the sentence in the Phoneme Editor first and then save it, FacePoser will try to extract the sentence before saving it, and because there is no .txt file to begin with, FacePoser will crash and you will lose your entire perfectly spaced sentence structure never able to retrieve it again.

So, to add the .txt first, you need to write your sentence in notepad (preferably) and save it to this directory: C:/Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/Half-Life 2/hl2/sound/ You may put it within a subdirectory of that. But once you have it saved there, you simply load your recorded sound (also in the same directory, or subfolder of it) of someone saying "yeah" and then right-click the sound and select "import word data from .txt" An "open" dialog box will appear and all you have to do is go search for your .txt file with the sentence in it.

Now the only downfall with this method is that you will have to space your sentece out yourself and add your own phonemes instead of working off the automatic ones that the "Re-extracting" tool would normally do, which can take a REALLY long time if you have a lot to say. Now the key here is that if you want to save that spacing data, DO NOT CLICK SAVE! Instead right-click your sound wave and select "export word data to .txt" and that will update your .txt file with the simple code used to determine the spacing of the text. Now next time you load it up in FacePoser, it will already be extracted and ready to have phonemes applied to it. So for now you have to select the export option under the rick-click menu.

-And that's the only thing I know that those pages will not tell you. Other than that, they explain everything...

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