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Suggestion for Idle Animation? & small bug?

A topic by Ronove created 7 days ago Views: 17 Replies: 4
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Hey! 

I was curious if there was any plans to implement a delay for the Idle Animation? I like making my portraits blink, but to have the correct frame rate for blinking, when idling, it's pretty constant with no delay. There is a solution in making more frames to force a delay, but that'll make the file pretty big and cumbersome, so I figured I'd ask/suggest if possible, to request a delay function before the Idle Animation plays. If not, no worries! Doesn't make or break anything.

My "bug" is for the Talk Animation. When the message stops, the frame it stops on will hang there for a noticeable moment before reverting back to the default frame. (So, if the character has their mouth open, it'll stay open for a hot second before closing which is a little distracting.) Below is a GIF showing what I mean in case it's not clear. The first portrait works perfectly, but the second portrait his dialogue stops at a point his mouth is open, so it hangs for a moment.


Would it be possible to have a fix for that?

Thank you!

Developer(+1)

Hi there! Let me see if I understood you correctly:

1) About the delay, you mean like the face is talking, and when he finishes talking, you want a delay for it to go to the idle. That is it?

2) For the image frame that is kinda frozen. Here I can think of two things:

2.1) Make the plugin complete the talk animation until the end and then set it to the default frame.

2.2) Make it go to the default frame right away, regardless the talk frame the image is already in.

Which one do you prefer?

Also, I notice on your gif that the problem with the mouth happens because it seems that you are opening a choice with the message. Can you try to confirm to me if that happen only when opening the choice window? Or happen regardless the choice window?

1. Yes, a delay before it goes to the idle, and ideally, a delay between idle animation repeating (so the blinking example won't just keep blinking endlessly. A pause when the idle animation ends and begins again is really what I'm hoping for).

2. It does happen even without the Choice menu popping up. I think 2.1 would look the best, esp if someone has a more complicated animation, but I wouldn't mind 2.2 if that's easier (2.2 is what I've experienced with other animation plugins as well).

Developer(+1)

understood! Thanks for the feedback!

Currently I'm finishing some stuff, but this problem is a thing that can totally be solved. So it may take a while, but I will be back with this fixed :)

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Thank you so much!