2008年10月19日 星期日

"Default" notecard in Zhao

There is a default notecard name "Default" in the Zhao AO hud. Can we use it? The answer is Yes, but we better to leave it blank as it is. Because the notecard is for system to load by default. Whenever we over add animation to crash our AO, this empty card is for us to use after reset AO. If our Default is the problem setting notecard, we will loop our problem until we fix the notecard "Default". You can use it anyway if you like.

Reload your notecard whenever you edit it

Whenever you edit or modify your AO's notecard, dont' forget to select it again from the configuration menu for reload it. Even the notecard has the same name, it will not apply the new setting. It will remain keep the old setting before you reload it.

2008年10月18日 星期六

Animation not found!

There is a common queston on animation not found after the notecard. The main cause is mistyping, such as misspelling animation name or insert pipe "|" in the wrong position (e.g. rex-std0001|rex-std000|2rex-std0003). The second cause is not obvious. Zhao AO engine will read space as a character space. If we left a space at the end of a configuration line in the notecard, Zhao AO will find a file name with a space at the end. In this situation, the animation cannot be found again. Double check your notecard, and make should no space leave at the end.

How to make preferrable animation appearing more in an AO?

There can be many stand animatons in an AO, but some animaton appear more natural than other you love to use more frequently. How to increase the frequency of their apearing? The answer is to repeat the favourable animation name in the configuration notecard. Repeated animaton name will not increase the use of memory much, but can increase the chance of using it.
example:
Before
[standing]rex-std001|rex-std002|rex-std003|rex-std004
After
[standing]rex-std001|rex-std002|rex-std003|rex-std004|rex-std002|rex-std002|rex-std002