Faces and fingers...

Hi, I"m a noob at animations and I noticed some animations are able to animate fingers. What software is needed to do this. I'm using Poser 6 and was unable to do this? While I'm asking, does Poser6 do face animations? If not, again, what software is used to do this?

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

Whatever software you are using, it is not possible to import face or finger movements into second life. You have two options. 1) Add face or finger positions through the dialog box you get when uploading your animation. 2) combine face or finger movements in the standard gestures available in world with your animations in a gesture.

-Sylvia

Thank you I will try that.

sl has built in facial expression animations such as smile, open mouth, etc. they can be found listed in the wiki( http://www.lslwiki.com/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=animation). the range is actually quite extensive. i have used a simple script that triggers a timer to keep repeating these animatons. the reason you need a timer is that the built in animations are not looped, ie., the avatar will stop smiling unless you retrigger the animation. otherwise, they behave in a script like any other animation, you use llstartanimation and llstopanimation. they can be addressed by UUId or by name. Hand movement is much more limited as a built in, but can be addressed the same way.