Animated facepics!

Okay so I just had a crazy idea. WAIT before you type "you're face is retarded" in the quick reply window hear me out. You could draw two facepics, and change them continiously during the <MSG. This sounds silly, but why not?

 

Try it.
You'll see why there would be issues.
It wouldn't be too hard of an asm hack, I think.

 

I've done this when someones expression changes mid sentence a couple of times in my hack. But for full blown animation it wouldnt work, seeing as the fast left to rigth scrollign motion of the facepic would distract from the intended effect.

The only way i can see of making a flowign animation in that manner is via assembly. But i dont see how it could be worth it as the work would be fairly considerable in assembly and the fact that you would be runnign otu of facepics fast.

Sayign that, it might be nice to have an assembly driven 3 frame loop facepic for an important scene.

There are better more efficient ways to animate though, and i'd rather stick to them.

 

Yeah this WOULD, require a simple ass hack.

 

Hey cut me some slack here. Maybe for someone with moderate experience with this but i started programming maybe like a week ago?

 

You could actually have the characters blink occasionally. That might be interesting.

 

You could actually have the characters blink occasionally. That might be interesting.

Yeah! That's a better idea. Now that Noxid hacked it so the faces don't slide...the possibilities are endless

 

From the way the thread is heading, i'm certainly curious about that hack that cancels out the sliding. It'd make any switching with facepics of the same character more expressive.

 

00424E91 MOV DWORD PTR [4A5B10],800

make that

00424E91 MOV DWORD PTR [4A5B10],6800

Hack complete :/

 

And thus, a new wave of hacks has been created!

 

I just tried this.
I ended up making a set of frames for Sue.
She can now blink and talk.

 

2Cyn: Post a demo plz. Want to see how it works.