[req] Somebody please fix crew dialog animations

[Ducimus]

This has been a want of mine for awhile, and while im not playing SH5 currently, i know i will again in the future, so it's my hope that somebody at some time, please..... fix the bloody crew dialog animations!

I do not know what files are involved in SH5, though i suspect it might be some of the same files that the MightyFine Crew Mod uses. The insinuation here being to use that mod as a base, or get heretic to update his mod with any crewman dialog fix that may occur.


Anyway, i strongly suspect what's causing the crewman to gyrate around in place while "talking" to them is that the game expects to use X amount of time during dialog sequences, and the animations are using up a smaller amount of time then what the game expects, so the game repeats the only animations it was told to play for that sequence.


To put it another way, if your getting crew speech that is repeating, (example, CE saying "Rudder, rudder", when ordering specific rudder commands) it's because the game expects to use (arbitrary number for sake of example) 5 seconds of speech or animations for this command. But the speech and the animation assigned to this command, is only using 3 of those 5 seconds. So what does the game do? It fills in the 2 second void by repeating the only instructions it had to execute for that command. Hence, the command gets repeated twice. (rudder, rudder) Had this exact problem in SH4, and it was fixed by using up the unused time frames by padding in additional animation or speech.

So i suspect the crew dialog animations is suffering from the same thing.

[eon850aye]

Yes, starting to get a little miffed at being told I'm "switching to salvo shooting" four times, and twice when "switching to single tube shooting" & "rudder zero" twice.
These are all I can think of right now, but the main 3 bugging me.

[John Channing]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

This has been a want of mine for awhile, and while im not playing SH5 currently, i know i will again in the future, so it's my hope that somebody at some time, please..... fix the bloody crew dialog animations!

I do not know what files are involved in SH5, though i suspect it might be some of the same files that the MightyFine Crew Mod uses. The insinuation here being to use that mod as a base, or get heretic to update his mod with any crewman dialog fix that may occur.


Anyway, i strongly suspect what's causing the crewman to gyrate around in place while "talking" to them is that the game expects to use X amount of time during dialog sequences, and the animations are using up a smaller amount of time then what the game expects, so the game repeats the only animations it was told to play for that sequence.


To put it another way, if your getting crew speech that is repeating, (example, CE saying "Rudder, rudder", when ordering specific rudder commands) it's because the game expects to use (arbitrary number for sake of example) 5 seconds of speech or animations for this command. But the speech and the animation assigned to this command, is only using 3 of those 5 seconds. So what does the game do? It fills in the 2 second void by repeating the only instructions it had to execute for that command. Hence, the command gets repeated twice. (rudder, rudder) Had this exact problem in SH4, and it was fixed by using up the unused time frames by padding in additional animation or speech.

So i suspect the crew dialog animations is suffering from the same thing.

Hmmmmm... if only there were someone with the talent and experience in these type of things that could make this happen.

JCC

[THE_MASK]

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by John Channing

Hmmmmm... if only there were someone with the talent and experience in these type of things that could make this happen.

JCC

There are a number of talented and experienced modders here in SH5. Don't sell them so short!

Originally Posted by sober

Yeah i know. "take a number duci, and stand in line like everybody else.".
That's why i'm mentioning it now ahead of time.