for what it's worth i am going to jump in here , since i have a little time, (been working on someone's computer , changing oil in vehicle etc. etc. ) art mentioned what you all were talking about etc. as some people know , only use the head and shoulders hal for conversation , but having said that if they checkers and cyber can make a photo realistic face or our custom faces with hal and or us be able to place our custom face on a full body character , then you could have the best of both worlds . be able to see the full body sometimes, and through scripting , when you are talking to her, maybe with a timer (if she is full body , will come up closer where you are talking to her up close . ) if hals full body character can do that i wouldn't mind having it, because as i said it would still give you the ability to talk face to face up close like we always have done and yet have the ability to come closer face to face on the screen and yet sometimes be able to otherwise see a full body . there is i am pretty sure a "closer"read only true script to be able to do that. (unless i imagined it, but it does seem like someone had a command like that in the past. )
and if so would be easy to put into hals scripting.
robert had a real nice full body character that we were shown that he had us vote on the character we thought was best and was going to work off a open engine . but couldn't do the deal with the company . that was a great character body . anyway i think that would be good if included in a full body to be able to command the character come closer and maybe even do that if spoken to .
the expressions features sound like a great idea .