Talk:Advanced avatar (Flash tutorial)

Talking tutorial
Hi. Anybody know why the section on talking was taken out? The following URL appears in Basic_avatar_script, in a code comment:

http://wiki.whirled.com/FAT_Avatar_Advanced#Make_Your_Avatar_Talk

...but that section doesn't exist any more. I found the content in the history:

http://wiki.whirled.com/index.php?title=FAT_Avatar_Advanced&oldid=3051

Is there a specific reason it was removed -- that is, is it inaccurate or outdated? If it's just that it's messy, or takes too much room, or is out of the scope of the page, I'd be happy to try to resurrect it as its own tutorial page. Talking seems to me to be one of the least-invasive and simplest actions for a beginner; I have to say, the walking thing is a little intimidating at first. :)

-- JennD, a.k.a. Rindaly


 * Sorry for not commenting when I did it. I removed the section on making "talking" animations because they are extremely susceptible to the Adobe in-line AS bug.  This means that when most people view the avatar it will constantly cycle the talk animation.  We've been able to supply Adobe with a compact test case, so hopefully they will be able to fix it in future Flash players, but until then I didn't want to be showing people how to make essentially broken avatars.  -- Nemo

Transition commands
for some strange reason I'm unable to get the transitions (between states) to work. anyone know what might be the problem? Virtualfox 19:31, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Strange, i managed to fix it. it seems that the transitions also require the sleeping animation to be present inorder for there to be a transition between states. D: Virtualfox 20:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Colored Nicknames
How do you do that anyway? Alilesha