More animations for Emotes, Hidden seats and condo NPCs

I’d love to see Hidden Seats and condo NPCs to have access to all of Tower Unite’s Emotes along with new sitting animations like these ones for Poses category!!

Also I really want NPCs (and Hidden Seats) to have clapping options; one for clapping while standing and one for clapping while sitting so we can create NPC audiences that claps during game shows, sport games, etc :slight_smile:

Don’t know why nobody ever bothered to suggest this before, because I always thought this should long have had been a thing, mainly, being able to use/access all emotes while seated. The other idea is cool too though, but I’m just saying.

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Hidden Seats were made compatible with emotes (such as clapping) in the latest update, I actually had to rework how seats even function to make that possible… but also left the door open for more seating poses since the system is expandable now.

HOWEVER, we would need to create these animations first, which is a tall order for me alone; I created a bunch of empty seat poses in the character themself (Balled, Crosslegged, Sleepover, Relaxed) but currently they are not exposed for use since they have no animations yet.

NPCs are a much more complicated matter, I had actually began looking into once we had started implementing the Wearable Pedestal type items. NPCs currently don’t use the same animation set as players and all of their models would need to be rerigged / heavily modified (Fuse models are asymmetrical normally, compare their hands) to use the proper skeleton.

At this point, I’m just going to replace their models with the new default playermodels, modified to match their old appearances (and probably rename + expand the options). But this will take time since I wasn’t the one who made those models, so I have to try and match Josh’s style.

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Wow! I appreciate the response and sharing the development process; this is incredibly interesting and it makes a lot of sense of why things are the way they are at the moment

I’ll admit, it didn’t occur to me that new animations needs to be created to combine both sitting/standing with clapping and but as I think about it, it makes sense

i personally would love to see that happening, it sounds great!

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