Read by Council Player facial expressions and other animations

[Asypha]

Originally, this was going to be a suggestion of a specific interface for facial animations, but I realized that the actual goal is to gain some form of animation for the player. Ideally, some way to change their expressions without a total skin change.

Would you agree that animations and more specifically, facial animations, would be a great thing to have?

(Just to put it in here, my original idea was a multi-block style interface for a range of expressions, ideally easily customized, possibly as part of the skin.)

 

[kikaha]

That'd be a little +.
And you could change expressions while in chat window (a special window like for faction chat maybe) and just type in a smiley ( :D and the likes)

 

[ToasterBorst]

I am one of the many that has long hoped for an astronaut overhaul.. this would be icing on the cake.
Would not want to suggest anymore windows though, what about just linking expressions and animations with classic chat emotes?

 

[jayman38]

I think this would require that the "head" skin be separate from the body skin, which is what I think should happen anyway, for easier customization. And then there could be a simple "face" skin that is simply overlaid on top of the head skin for temporary changes like this. (A game mechanic which could be expanded to make NPCs more unique-looking.)

 

[Kingofanime]

Facial animations sound like they would be complicated by the different player skins. But you could do something similar to Dragon Quest 9 and Fantasy Life, where you have a list of Body animations/Gestures, and the player skin is not modified in any way.

Waving animation
Fist punch in the air animation
Dancing animation
Taunting animation
Unique animation list for different player races.

Maybe stand in the front window of your ship's bridge, doing a "come at me bro" animation.

 

[spunkiethefirst]

-begging on knees
-gesturing a large fish
-knee slapping laugh
-crying into hands
-fanning away a bad smell
-tip toe sneak
-juggle #1-10: juggles whatever item is in the players hotbar, 1 juggles slot 1 and 10 juggles all slots

 

[Lukwan]

I would much rather have model-animations than texture-animations.

Lets Dance!

 

[Byamarro]

That's cool but there are definitelly more important features to implement.

 

[Benevolent27]

I want to dance.

That will be all.