Making Aya talk

khegerberg · Post by **khegerberg** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:20 pm

I'd like to have the animated character that comes with the program - Aya talk. I've tried importing a .dat papagayo file in the mouth switch layer. There is no sound and then her mouth doesn't move either. Do I have to build bones or alter the "mouth" switch layer that automatically comes up when you import Aya in anyway in order to make it synch up with the sound file?

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:40 pm

looking at Ayas mouth switch sublayers, they arent named correctly for use with Papagayo switch layers (is that where you are getting your dat files?)

You have two choices... either open the dat file in txt editor and rename all instances of each shape to match those insode aya's switch layer, or rename aya's mouths to go with the dat file (i.e. AI, O, MBP etc)

khegerberg · Post by **khegerberg** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:30 pm

Thanks that worked for getting her mouth to move. Now the only problem is there is no sound. I am using a .dat file created in papagayo. Any suggestions?

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:11 pm

you have to load the sound seperately - click 'select soundtrack...' under the Animation menu

khegerberg · Post by **khegerberg** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:06 pm

OK loaded the sound via the animation menu but it won't let me chose the papgayo .dat file - only a wav file and when I load that it has an echo??

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:33 pm

It is a two step process...

The dat file is loaded in the switch (no sound)

The matching sound file is loaded as the sound track.

I don't know what is causing the echo. Is it an echo or the sound kind of "stuttering"?

AS has a hard time keeping the animation in sync with the sound. You often get a sort of repeating stutter.

-vern

khegerberg · Post by **khegerberg** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:01 pm

Yes that's what it is - a kind of stutter. It's weird because sometimes it works completely fine and other times there is a slight stutter. I guess it must be like you said related to that particular figure. Thanks for your help.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:17 pm

I think the stutter is a general problem with AS and sound. I have the same problem on Mac and PC versions of AS. Even with simple files. Big complex files forget about it.

AS tries to keep the animation in sync (skip frames). When the sound gets ahead of the animation it sort of "repeats" to "catch up". That's my theory anyway.

-vern

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:51 am

yeah but worth noting it exports fine...