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Video Tutorial - Idle Animations, Chat Animations and Chat Bubbles

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited December 2010 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
I had some trouble with the video quality of this one, but hopefully it is useful to you, if you don't know how do some of it. You may have to turn your monitor brightness up to watch it.

NPC idle animations, chat animations, and chat bubbles:

http://starbaseugc.com/index.php/sto-ugc-tutorial/video-tutorial-idle-animations-chat-animations-and-chat-bubbles/

Thanks!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Thanks! :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Thankyou for this :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Awsoeme,

    I didnt have a chance to play around with costumes much at all so this was very helpful.

    Is the idea similar for ships?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Jacoben wrote:
    Awsoeme,

    I didnt have a chance to play around with costumes much at all so this was very helpful.

    Is the idea similar for ships?

    Yes, I beileve that you can costume ships to different ones, but the ship will fire the weapons of what it used to be. So, a Romulan warbird skinned as a Fed Runabout (if that's possible?) will fire disruptors and blow you to bits.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Yay finally I can clean up "Shattered Peace in the Mirror" when foundry is back up. Thanks
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Very Very useful info

    Meow
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Great video Kirkfat! I can't wait for the Foundry to come back up.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I tried following your tutorial, but perhaps they've changed features. For one thing, Single Targ is no longer available, and secondly, no matter what, no Group NPC, even when changed to a Single Costume (of which there are very few now, and none of them Orion) none of them have idle animations anymore, or wander animations, or any other options beyond position, name, and behavior.

    I keep trying to make a Ensign scan the wall in Engineering, but I can make single people, just squads...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Vulcan.Skon wrote: »
    I tried following your tutorial, but perhaps they've changed features. For one thing, Single Targ is no longer available, and secondly, no matter what, no Group NPC, even when changed to a Single Costume (of which there are very few now, and none of them Orion) none of them have idle animations anymore, or wander animations, or any other options beyond position, name, and behavior.

    I keep trying to make a Ensign scan the wall in Engineering, but I can make single people, just squads...

    hmmmm... that's strange. I guess that is to be expected with beta changes.

    edit: I just logged into the foundry on Tribble and it's still the same. Single Targ is 2nd from the top of npc groups. All the animation options are still there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Vulcan.Skon wrote: »
    I tried following your tutorial, but perhaps they've changed features. For one thing, Single Targ is no longer available, and secondly, no matter what, no Group NPC, even when changed to a Single Costume (of which there are very few now, and none of them Orion) none of them have idle animations anymore, or wander animations, or any other options beyond position, name, and behavior.

    I keep trying to make a Ensign scan the wall in Engineering, but I can make single people, just squads...

    Click on the group to change all that stuff, not on the individual within the group, except for costumes.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    Click on the group to change all that stuff, not on the individual within the group, except for costumes.

    Therein lies the problem. I just want one person at a time. I don't want a group. Or worse, I want three, not five.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Vulcan.Skon wrote: »
    Therein lies the problem. I just want one person at a time. I don't want a group. Or worse, I want three, not five.

    And this is why the single targ under npc groups comes in handy. Or, if you really want to use a Klingon just move the other 4 outside of the map or underground, if they're not part of your objective.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    And this is why the single targ under npc groups comes in handy. Or, if you really want to use a Klingon just move the other 4 outside of the map or underground, if they're not part of your objective.

    That's the thing. The Single Targ isn't there anymore... No single anything in NPC Groups anymore.

    Thats... sort of what I said in the first post....

    EDIT: Never mind, I looked again. There is still a Single Targ. But now if you try and change that targ to anything else, there are no other single things except Targ and Attack Saur. The rest of the options are all Groups, which you wanted to avoid in the first place.

    So, in short, try running your tutorial again, you'll find it no longer works.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    hmm How are you able to play a group map without your away team?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Sweet! You just gave me my Greek chorus. Great job and thank you.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Vulcan.Skon wrote: »
    That's the thing. The Single Targ isn't there anymore... No single anything in NPC Groups anymore.

    Thats... sort of what I said in the first post....

    EDIT: Never mind, I looked again. There is still a Single Targ. But now if you try and change that targ to anything else, there are no other single things except Targ and Attack Saur. The rest of the options are all Groups, which you wanted to avoid in the first place.

    So, in short, try running your tutorial again, you'll find it no longer works.

    I just did it again on Tribble, and it works as instructed, Vulcan. Select the single targ under npc groups. Put him in the map. Click the little arrow icon beside the Single targ in the maps tab to bring a drop down list of the individual actors of the group. The individual targ is "Actor #1." You can change his costume to a Borg or anything else.

    To sum:

    You can change the costume(s) of a group by clicking on the individual actors.

    You can change the animation(s) and other fearture by clicking on the group.

    The Single Targ is a group that consists of only 1 actor. If you want to use a different group, but only want 1 actor, then move 4 of the others into dead space or underground.

    Sorry if something about that isn't clear. It still works exactly as the tutorial shows.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Shogun_of_TOG wrote:
    hmm How are you able to play a group map without your away team?

    Sometimes my away team shows up, and other times it doesn't, lol.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Funny, Single Targ is there for me
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Thanks for the video!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Aha! Got it! Your last explanation made me get it Kirkfat. Thanks. I just wasn't understanding that you'd need to use both the 'Group' Icon settings and the 'Actor' settings. For some reason I was remembering you only accessing one in your video.
    Anyways, now they are working, at least in Preview. Unfortunately, every time I publish it and try to go play it on Tribble with a regular character, they just stand there and do nothing, even though ten minutes ago, in Preview, they were typing, cleaning, scanning, whatever.

    I'm gussing this is a bug that they just haven't worked out yet. Or do other people not have this problem?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Vulcan.Skon wrote: »
    Aha! Got it! Your last explanation made me get it Kirkfat. Thanks. I just wasn't understanding that you'd need to use both the 'Group' Icon settings and the 'Actor' settings. For some reason I was remembering you only accessing one in your video.
    Anyways, now they are working, at least in Preview. Unfortunately, every time I publish it and try to go play it on Tribble with a regular character, they just stand there and do nothing, even though ten minutes ago, in Preview, they were typing, cleaning, scanning, whatever.

    I'm gussing this is a bug that they just haven't worked out yet. Or do other people not have this problem?

    Yes, this is a bug. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. At least it isn't as bad as it was during closed beta when our npcs were all white hairy andorians.
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