Crew member sizes

[Lurok91]

Sorry to post if obvious answers, or only Excalibur lot can answer (have emailed and pm'd Mark, but no response yet).  As develop bridge skills these sort of questions pop up 

Are the crew member sizes fixed?   It seems:
Saffi & Felix - Large
Kiska - Medium
Brex & Miguel - Small

But this changes on some bridges.

And can anims from one size be applied to another?  e.g., can Brex use Felix animations? 

[Morgan]

If I remember correctly I think animations plays a part in crew size. I base this off of the canon crew fix for the Sovereign bridge. When Kiska was moved to Felix's position and Miguel to Kiska's, their sizes changed because they used the formers animations in those spots.

So with that said animations can obviously be switched between characters, but they just look a little funny afterwords.

I don't know if there are other factors in crew size, besides animations. If there are the Excalibur team should know.

[JimmyB76]

crew member sizes can be anything really...
there was once a funny shot where mark (i think) made saffi very small, and also Sovvy just posted a screenshot of a very huge saffi...
http://bc-central.net/forums/index.php/topic,6041.msg143188.html#msg143188
(you may want to PM Sovvy and ask how he did it)

as far as animations, i dont think they could be interchanged; however, perhaps like-animations (large-large, medium-medium, etc) could, so it might be one of those trial and error things...

[Mario]

Sorry to post if obvious answers, or only Excalibur lot can answer (have emailed and pm'd Mark, but no response yet).

Any scripter who knows what he's doing should be able to answer these. This is more of a scripting question.

Are the crew member sizes fixed?   It seems:
Saffi & Felix - Large
Kiska - Medium
Brex & Miguel - Small

No, these are defined in the character configuration scripts. Each bridge (for a very long time I didn't download a bridge mod) used to have its own configuration scripts for each character.

Char sizs is i.e. defined by something like this

Code: [Select]

pChar.SetSize(App.CharacterClass.SMALL)
pChar.SetSize(App.CharacterClass.MEDIUM)
pChar.SetSize(App.CharacterClass.LARGE)

and you can also set the characters scale using

Code: [Select]

pChar.SetScale(1.0) # float value


But this changes on some bridges.

As I said each bridge has different config settings, each unique scripts (of course some bridges reuse existing scripts but you can write new ones).

And can anims from one size be applied to another?  e.g., can Brex use Felix animations? 

Animations are also defined in these scripts, one by one. You also define random animation chance, blink rate etc.

Just trying to give you some kind of prespective.

But remember that 3rd era had a scripter to help them in certain areas (they had Mleo, then later on Lost_Jedi or LJ now).

Oh and BTW if you switch sizes you can then switch from using i.e. you had a character which was small then switched to large you can just swap to use the large animation types then (mind that some animations are considered common).

That should have you covered.

[Lurok91]

Thanks Sovereign. Discovering lot of this thru experimentation, but nice to have in b&w     Thanks again. Very useful.

[Mario]

Feel free to ask anymore questions here or at BCS-TNG. Although I'm more frequent at BCS-TNG and will always sooner reply there.