LE Face Animations

[ColonialRaptor]

Howdy guys...

 

I don't know if this is possible or not, because I'm not a modder, but one of the biggest areas that I think the game is lacking is the expression of characters on their faces. They never show any emotion or expression at all!

 

I am hoping someone would be able to do this... I suppose it's probably not going to be able to happen until the CK comes out, but rather than having to look at the same blank expression all the time, it would be good to be able to get a smile, or a frown, you know while talking to friends your chracter frowns, or if you select a negative speech options, frown, or if you're fighting, frown and yell / open mouth, because the sound happens but the mouth doesn't open.

 

I'm sure the faces already have the bones and the ability to do it, the NPC's faces animate when they talk to you, so it would just be a matter of rigging the player's character to animate to certain expressions at certain times right? If I knew at all how it worked I'd give it a go.

 

I imagine if I had the right tools all you would do is create the expression you want and then the bones just animate from blank to the expression in a linear line of animation right? It wouldn't be that hard to do right? You just pull the bone points around yeah?

 

I imagine the harder part would be getting the character to actually animate their face at certain times, but the game knows when you're in battle - it plays different music so it must have some sort of notification for different effects, a different expression for running, for using magic, for using stamina, when you're low on health (hurt face). Even if we could put those conditions on, even if the different face expressions could just be programmed, maybe that would be worthwhile if you just had to type something into the console to make the face expression change. The reason I want it is for screenshots, I'm so sick of the same blank expression. It would be nice to be able to have a bunch of poses programmed into the console so that when you're character is just standing there in 'tfc 1' mode you can just type in a letter and it cycles through a bunch of different poses for you to set up different screenshots. It's all cheating, but the more variety the better you know?

 

Also - does anyone know if it's possible to allocate the 'tfc 1' and the 'tm' console commands to a button?

 

Thanks for reading!

 

CR