/say dialogue animations?

I wonder if it would be interesting if Square Enix tried to do one better than World of Warcraft in one thing:

Facial/body animations during /say dialogue with other players.

When you type and talk in WoW, your character animates according to the dialogue, though it is straightforward.

If Square-Enix could somehow implement a context-sensitive version of the dialogue where using exclamation points or questions, or even pointed statements would result in a different kind of animation.

An example is this:

"What's going on?" (Resultant Animation for Miqo'te: Cocking the head to one side in curious wonder)

"Oh, what the hell are you doing!?" (Resultant animation for most characters: Angry expression.)

Also, lip synching would be applicable here, too. Kind of like how the NPCs lip-synch their basic dialogue in cutscenes. That should be applied to player characters.

The whole point of this is to make your characters seem more animated and part of the world, rather than a stone pillar of unspeakingness.

I believe Aion had this too. Text based animation triggers, I know the RP community would love this.

They kinda did this in aion with emotes and such, detecting words you typed... Really flawed and still hasn't been perfected or even worked on, but a good idea none the less^^ Hehe

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Originally Posted by Misha

They kinda did this in aion with emotes and such, detecting words you typed... Really flawed and still hasn't been perfected or even worked on, but a good idea none the less^^ Hehe

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One of the problems is that this game is a Japanese/English international release, so that creates some complexities about context-sensitive programming. Perhaps for starters just a simple chatting animation would be adequate. :)

Agree'd hehe... and/or cute chat bubbles as an option above people's heads? FF style?^^ :D... I have used those on other mmo's but no one ever gets em right >.> FF 14 could though ... :)

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Originally Posted by SilvertearRen

One of the problems is that this game is a Japanese/English international release, so that creates some complexities about context-sensitive programming. Perhaps for starters just a simple chatting animation would be adequate. :)

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They could start with the auto translated phrases

I like this, i hope they add it !

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Originally Posted by SirEdeonX

They could start with the auto translated phrases

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I'm talking about the Japanese Language's differences from the English language, not auto-translate. By that, I'm referring to the fact that they use Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana for various forms of text communication. Can you imagine an entire dictionary's worth of context-sensitive programming work for each of these language types? And the fact that some Japanese use two or more of these languages interchangeably?

Yeah, no. That would be a nightmare.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rzea-more-life

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Originally Posted by SilvertearRen

I'm talking about the Japanese Language's differences from the English language, not auto-translate. By that, I'm referring to the fact that they use Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana for various forms of text communication. Can you imagine an entire dictionary's worth of context-sensitive programming work for each of these language types? And the fact that some Japanese use two or more of these languages interchangeably?

Yeah, no. That would be a nightmare.

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Hiragana, katakana, and kanji are all part of one Japanese language. They are not individual languages.

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Originally Posted by SilvertearRen

I'm talking about the Japanese Language's differences from the English language, not auto-translate. By that, I'm referring to the fact that they use Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana for various forms of text communication. Can you imagine an entire dictionary's worth of context-sensitive programming work for each of these language types? And the fact that some Japanese use two or more of these languages interchangeably?

Yeah, no. That would be a nightmare.

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What I meant was, they could associate some emotes with some phrases in the autotranslate. Like (What?) and (Huh?) and others lol

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Originally Posted by SirEdeonX

What I meant was, they could associate some emotes with some phrases in the autotranslate. Like (What?) and (Huh?) and others lol

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I made a thread on this a few days ago and that is pretty much what I would like, some sort of auto emote system for certain things in chat. So if you typed lol you would laugh, if you typed ; ; you would cry. When you chat your character could move their arms and shuffle as though they are talking. When chatting in LS chat you could hold a finger to your ear so it looks like you are talking/listening into the Linkpearl, add some emotes you can do while running like /wave and /panic just little touches like that.

The thread is here if you want to look at it, though it didn't get many replies ; ;

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rzea-more-life

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

I made a thread on this a few days ago

The thread is here if you want to look at it, though it didn't get many replies ; ;

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rzea-more-life

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Ya, I reposted it in this thread :p

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Originally Posted by Rentahamster

Ya, I reposted it in this thread :p

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Hehe, I need to take some of my own advice of not skipping through threads without reading them fully ^^

I made a similar suggestion also. I vote a yes on it.