Speaking Character

[Emicrania]

Hi! First i would like to hail all the users of this forum, i'm new. I got a question... does exist any plugin or something to let "talk" a character in a third person game? i mean moving lips of the character. Does exist an alternative way (not too complicated) to simulate this thing? I'm a graphic designer and i can use photoshop, illustrator, 3dstudio ecc..
I apologize myself for my poor english..


Thank you guys

[mercedes]

Hi welcome to the forums..!~:D

You would have to use a software, that does that for you...so you would have to make an animation of this character..and then import this character in..as an animation..--Not sure if this would work with 3rd person plugin....As that is a different thing..They are not animated..but a series of pictures put together to make up the movements of the character.

If you open up the 3rd person example game--Manage Resources--Then External Folder--you will see how the 3rd person plugin works..

Here are a few of sites that do that..~
http://www.ilipsync.net/
That one allows u to make the character--designing it as a flash animation.

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/lip_synch.php

If you do a search on Lip syncing, you will find a bunch..