Can't get custom bosses to do emotes
By
Apollinaris,
Posted on: 2009-04-10 01:45 in Mission Architect
It's a bug.
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You sure? I was chatting in MA global last night and they seemed to think it was just me...as if I did something wrong when editing the mish.
And I'm certain I've seen other mishes where custom bosses were doing proper emotes.
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Some emotes don't work with certain characters. Set the emote in the editor and click "start animation" under his picture on the right. He will act out the emote if it works.
All of the emotes play fine in the editor, but they don't do them when actually running the mission in Test mode or Published.
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I've never had a boss do an emote right, and I've done a lot of boss spawns with a lot of different bosses. I've heard this is primarily on bosses which have armor secondaries, since they keep toggling up / detoggling, but I've seen it even on pure assault bosses. They seem to rapidly restart the 'generic enemy taunting' animation over and over.
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Some emotes don't work with certain characters. Set the emote in the editor and click "start animation" under his picture on the right. He will act out the emote if it works.
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Yeah, I'd soo like to see a Bright Nova boss doing that "smashing fist into hand" animation.
Just to chime in here I remember someone saying that things like auras "break" them out of their animation loop. That might by why so many emotes aren't working. It may or may not be true, but in review all the bosses I couldn't get to emote had auras and the ones that worked didn't or were standard enemies.
Some enemies will reliably do emotes, but custom bosses are a little obsessive about toggling on their armor powers, and don't go back to their emote when finished.
Arc #41077 - The Men of State
Arc #48845 - Operation: Dirty Snowball
Hmmm...toggles? Only 2 of the 3 bosses have defensive toggles but none of them are doing the emotes.
I'll have to double check if they have other self-buffs they might be popping like aim or build up.
Any chance it has to do with them having "Unaware" dialogue? That's one of the only consistent settings I can imagine they share.
Oh, and none have auras.
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I set the initial emote for my bosses but they never do it...they all go to a generic taunt emote.
If I set the NPC group around them to an emote it works on the NPCs, but still not the boss.
Anyone else run into this? I've tried setting and resetting over and over with no luck.
Emotes I've tried so far: Clean Gun, Eat Donut, Eat Hamburger, Observe, Wounded, Katana Point, and Training Kung Fu. I've seen these in other mishes, so I know they're not broken emotes.
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