Blink/talking animations, how to put a character together?

[MarieRose1301]

I've been looking for info on making blinking and lipsync animations and I don't really understand how to split the image up correctly to have the parts positioned properly in-game
Could anyone help me with it?
This is the archive with 2 pic(default and blink) http://sta.sh/0243hjrwo7rz

[Alera]

You don't actually need to cut it in any way, but the reason you might want to is for optimisation purposes. (Having tons of full images might end up taking a lot of unnecessary memory. ) Then animating is very simple:

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image mikuBlink = Animation("blink1.png", 2.5, "blink2.png", 0.1, "blink1.png",2.5)

And then what you could do is have a base image with your sprite without eyes and then have the eyes as separate images, BUT have them the same size as the whole sprite. (Sorry, I can't explain this properly, but I've attached a file as an example!) and then have that displayed as an animation on top.

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show mikuBase
show mikuBlink

That's the easiest way I know to have them display exactly where you want them. Maybe someone else has better tips?

[MarieRose1301]

You don't actually need to cut it in any way, but the reason you might want to is for optimisation purposes. (Having tons of full images might end up taking a lot of unnecessary memory. ) Then animating is very simple:

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image mikuBlink = Animation("blink1.png", 2.5, "blink2.png", 0.1, "blink1.png",2.5)

And then what you could do is have a base image with your sprite without eyes and then have the eyes as separate images, BUT have them the same size as the whole sprite. (Sorry, I can't explain this properly, but I've attached a file as an example!) and then have that displayed as an animation on top.

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show mikuBase
show mikuBlink

That's the easiest way I know to have them display exactly where you want them. Maybe someone else has better tips?

Oh thank you, that will help me ouo
Now I just need to know how to make the chara blink randomly

[Alera]

Ok, there is a way to do this. Instead of using Animation there is another way to define the blinking. Like so:

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image mikuBlink:
    "mikudefault.png" # Miku with her eyes open
    choice:
        1.5
    choice:
        4.5
    choice:
        1.0
# ^ these are the random interval values in seconds. You can have as many of those as you want.
    "mikublink3.png" # Miku with her eyes closed.
    0.1
    repeat

Then show the images the exact same way like before.