i want my av to make automatic facial expressions

ive seen alot of avis do this... how do i achieve it?

They have a facial animator. Contact me in world and I'll give you a copy of the one I have.

*EDIT* Actually, sorry.. the one I have only works off a hud and keeps the same selection until you click a new one or stop it. A lot of people have one that smiles and stops, smiles and stops. Not sure where they got it. Search might help.

There are numerous items that will allow you to hold a facial expression. YadNi's emoter hud, for one. I personally use the "emote" feature in Mystitool.

If you just want to use it for emphasis, make gesture that fit popular emoticons. Some may already be in your library. I have things like"" set up to do it. They look like the following:

trigger:
(You can also set a hot key for it. It's shift-F2 for me, but whatever works for you)
gesture: grin
text: /me smiles

Pretty simple to do, really, have works well. Well, better than just havin a "" in a 3D world!

Mari

Outy Banjo, O Scripting - Brownlee, Brownlee (246, 50, 10
Auto Emote HUD v1.0.1

listens on channel 0 for smilies/words
can lag the crap out of everyone with sooooooo much parsing, specially in busy places

Saw a hottie avatar with an automated smile feature on. It flashed at inappropriate times, looked as cold and artificial as the smile on a used-car salesman who pimps in his spare time, and made me glad I am not into cybersex. Brrr.

sorry about that Har...ill buy a new one .....

I saw a really cute blonde with a squint and a smile. The two together were mesmerising.
My fiancee picked up a freebie wearable smile that started and stopped but we found it interfered with some of the sits and hugs.

An easy method would be to have a script listen to your chat emotes and trigger the appropriate facial expression. Example:


startup()
{
key temp = llGetOwner();
llRequestPermissions(temp, PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
llListen(0,"",temp,"";
}
default
{
state_entry()
{
startup();
}
on_rez(integer doesntmatter)
{
startup();
}
listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string mes)
{
if (mes=="/me smiles"
llStartAnimation("express_smile";
else if (mes=="/me grins" || mes=="hehe"
llStartAnimation("express_toothsmile";
else if (mes=="/me laughs" || mes=="lol"
llStartAnimation("express_laugh_emote";
}
}


Copy it, paste it into a prim, attach the prim to body or HUD. Type /me smiles in order to smile, /me grins for a wider smile, /me laughs or lol for a laughing expression... You can enhance it with additional "else if" lines. Here's a list of other built-in facial expressions:

You could also use the Mirada HUD that has a smart emote mode where it listens and responds with appropriate expressions. It has loads of other features as well, and it's only 100L. I think I got mine at Hairapy sim.

Of course, you can always buy things instead of learning how to script

The script above is no trade secret btw. I learned how to trigger facial animations from Yadni's Emoter HUD, which comes with full perm scripts (but has a horrible interface). This ancient, secret knowledge can also be found in the LSL Wiki.

~Shivers at the thought of a script listening on channel /0 ~

It only listens to the owner

If it's only needed for smiling, one could also use
llListen(0,"",llGetOwner(),"/me smiles";

Coincidentally, I'm about to release a facial animation HUD I've been working on. It'll have a menu to select the facial expression you are showing, plus it'll override the typing motion so that your mouth moves when you type chat.

It's not automatic though. A couple automatic ones have been referred to; haven't seen how well they work at detecting emotion from what you type, plus it'll be laggy from listening to main chat.

EDIT: Wait, do you mean automatic in terms of automatically detecting what expression to show, or simply in terms of staying in a given expression rather than playing it for a second when you call the gesture and then it's over? Most facial animation gadgets (including my hud) do that latter, but it's a pretty tall order to expect a script to read your mind