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Added new poses, now what?

Benton Slade
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Join date: 4 Mar 2007
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04-21-2007 12:34
So I've added quite a few new poses for standing, walking, etc. How do I get it to cycle through the stands and pick the walk that I want to use? Do I need to edit the AO_male file with the names of the new poses?

Thanks.
Keiki Lemieux
I make HUDDLES
Join date: 8 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,490
04-21-2007 13:42
From: Benton Slade
So I've added quite a few new poses for standing, walking, etc. How do I get it to cycle through the stands and pick the walk that I want to use? Do I need to edit the AO_male file with the names of the new poses?

Thanks.

Yes, take a look at Section V of the manual on the ZHAO:

From: someone
V. BUILT IN ZHAO (Animation Override)
The EZAD now comes with a few built in animations to provide basic AO support.
A walking, sit and stand animation is provided for both female and male avis. To
use these as your AO, click the Load button on AO controls and choose either
~AO_male or ~AO_female and you are all set.

If you have set up an animation override before, this should be no different.
- Drop your animations and the notecard from your Wet Ikon or ZHAO into the
EZ Animator.
- Rename your notecard so that it starts with the letters AO. This is the only way
for the EZ Animator to distinguish macro notecards from AO notecards.
- Switch to the AO controls and click on the disk button to load a notecard.

A. EDITING ~AO_CONFIG NOTECARD
If you have not set up an animation override before, here is how it works. Animation
Overrides (or AOs) work by constantly checking your avatar and replacing the
default animations with custom ones allowing you to choose the way your avatar
sits, stands, walks, flies, etc.

You specify which animation you want to use for each state by copying the
AO_config notecard provided and typing in animations into the blank lines. For
instance, on the first line of the config notecard you will see this:

:: [ Walking (also Striding) 1 ] ::

On the blank line below it, you would type the exact name of the animation you want
to use when your avatar is walking like this:

:: [ Walking (also Striding) 1 ] ::
Sexy Walk - Slow

That animation also must be in the inventory of your EZ Animator to work.

Drop the notecard into your EZ Animator when you are done.

PLEASE NOTE: You do not have to specify every animation. You might only specify
the walking, sitting and stand animations for instance. If the line is left blank,
then the ZHAO lets the default animations play.

B. LOADING NOTECARD
To load an AO config notecard, switch to the AO controls by clicking the Flip button
at the bottom of the HUD and click on the button that looks like a computer disk.

C. AO ON/OFF
The button marked AO allows you to toggle your AO off and on.

D. SIT ON/OFF
The Sit button allows you to toggle just the Sit animation from your AO. This is
useful when sitting on pose balls and dance balls.

E. NEXT STAND & TIME INTERVAL
AOs typically cycle through each of the stands that you choose for your avatar.
You may set the time interval for this process, by clicking the button that looks
like a watch in the AO controls and then typing in a number.

If you want to turn off the automatic stand switching, type in 0.

Next Stand looks like a single arrow: >. It allows you to immediately change to the
next stand with a button press.

F. CHOOSE WALK
The ZHAO allows you to load up to 5 different walks and choose which one you
want to use. Click on the icon of a figure walking to choose between the loaded
walks

G. CHOOSE SIT
You can have up to 5 sits as well. The button with the figure sitting allows you to
choose.

H. CHOOSE GROUND SIT
Finally you also can have up to 5 ground sits. The button with the figure sitting
on the ground allows you to choose which one.

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Benton Slade
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Join date: 4 Mar 2007
Posts: 2
04-21-2007 14:43
Thank you so much for your help. I appreciate it.
Keiki Lemieux
I make HUDDLES
Join date: 8 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,490
04-21-2007 15:51
From: Benton Slade
Thank you so much for your help. I appreciate it.

Feel free to IM me if you have problems that you cannot sort out from the directions.
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Chani Paine
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Join date: 21 Apr 2007
Posts: 12
05-14-2007 11:42
Hello Keiki,

Thanks for making this gadget, its a very powerful tool.

I have a question on this general topic. Will the AO stand section take more than one stand per line by using a seperator like | or , ? I may have missed mention of it when i was reading over the directions.

Thanks for your time
Keiki Lemieux
I make HUDDLES
Join date: 8 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,490
05-14-2007 11:51
From: Chani Paine
Hello Keiki,

Thanks for making this gadget, its a very powerful tool.

I have a question on this general topic. Will the AO stand section take more than one stand per line by using a seperator like | or , ? I may have missed mention of it when i was reading over the directions.

Thanks for your time

Each line of the AO_config notecards only take one animation. I do think that there may be some AOs out there that allow multiple animations on a line, but those were someone's hack of the script.

Anyway, if you do want to achieve that effect (more than 5 standing poses). You could create a separate regular notecard with a list of standing poses, load that notecard and choose "Random" mode when standing still. In this way you could have a list of 100 standing poses that it cycles through. Not quite as automatic as using the AO_config, but it allows you to incorporate all kinds of other things into your list of stands, like sounds, emotes and other very short animations.

Please ask questions if you want me to elaborate.
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Chani Paine
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Join date: 21 Apr 2007
Posts: 12
05-14-2007 13:04
Actually a seperate notecard sounds like it would allow for more flexibility. 100 stands with other goodies tossed in. Fun times :) Im wondering tho if I would need to stop the randomizing before moving.

My origianl question was part of a larger idea but on a smaller scale than the 100 plus solution. Each anim for stands runs about 30 to 40 seconds if allowed to run on its own.

If the stand section was something other than 5 x 1 say 5 x 5 or 5 x 10. A person would have a "stand bank" that was totally hands free. At 5 x 10 running in sequence, it would be quite sometime before a stand would come up again in the rotation.

Anyway if the idea appeals it yours. I put it here becuse yours looks like the only one that continues to develop.





[Edit for spelling....never shoulda dropped outta skool :) ]