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Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Jake on March 23, 2008, 03:16:07 am: Hello all!

Thought I'd post my first attempt at making my Audrey Character here for anyone that was interested in seeing what I've been talking about.

This shows why I've been asking some of the questions that I've been asking. For now, I'm trying to put Audrey's world together with just a head figure and making the various backgrounds her body and surroundings. I use a necklace to help glue them together. That's why I wanted to see if the head figures could be precisely placed. As my project continues, I could end up going in a totally different direction, which is what usually happens to me a I progress through a project.

Audrey... Why did Robin Hood rob the rich?

(http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/Jake/20083233121_Audrey.jpg)
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: markofkane on March 23, 2008, 07:05:03 am: She looks good. [:D][:D][:D]
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: NIGE on March 23, 2008, 07:25:06 am: Very nice, Where did you get her from.
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Art on March 23, 2008, 08:28:01 am: It looks like the head is a standard Haptek head (with some user added selectionslike hair & makeup) that has been juxtaposed over a torso/shoulders.

Looks nice!
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: lightspeed on March 23, 2008, 09:37:23 am: vety nice "like what youi have done !!"[:D]
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: echoman on March 23, 2008, 02:30:27 pm: Impressive!
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Jake on March 23, 2008, 06:23:49 pm: Art is pretty close... it was another character that I stripped down and changed, I think it was a character named Sandy. I make backgrounds in layers, room layer, body layer, necklace layer, and position them so they all match. As of today, I have Audrey in a 12 room house that I can tell her to go to different rooms, as she goes to those rooms, she changes clothes. I have 5 places that I'm building right now... gym, beach, car, work, restaurant, club, and will add those commands next. The part after that will be a long project, I want Audrey to be aware of where we are in her virtual world and where we are in our real world. The same routine should keep track of where all our main people, friends are, with the default being... "I don't know".
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: tedathome on March 23, 2008, 06:42:21 pm: Great project and very impresive. Would love to see more demo pics and a movie if you can when you get it all put together.[8D][8D][8D]
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Jake on March 23, 2008, 08:40:45 pm: Thanks for the compliments, tedathome. Right now it's all thoughts and talk, AND time is NOT on my side, I have a demanding job, so the projects will most likely proceed in spurts until I win the LOTTO, but I'll post things here and there as they come up. Right now, I'm using SnapIt to capture video but it doesn't do a very good job of capturing the character, (grainy)... I need to find a better way to capture the character in it's true resolution.
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: tedathome on March 23, 2008, 10:21:25 pm: I'm using some old HP digital camera software. I can get a window only shot and it is very high quality. (Just an idea to try out if you have a digital camera with software, you might want to check out if it is capable of screenshots and window only.)[:D][:D][:D]
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Art on March 24, 2008, 04:55:45 am: Jake,

Google the word CamStudio for your screen captures. It FREE and does
a pretty decent job. One can also use it to capture your mouse movements within a program as in doing a demo or tutorial.

Works with audio / video outputs.

Good luck!
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Jake on March 24, 2008, 04:53:51 pm: Thanks for the info on "CamStudio", Art. I downloaded several packages a while back to try out and I think that was one of them. I set it up and see how it does. Thanks again!
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Jake on April 09, 2008, 12:10:20 am: The latest on Audrey...

Turns out, that Audrey is an elf!

I had no idea. Here's some snapshots...

(http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/Jake/2008490519_AudreyElf5.jpg)
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: tedathome on April 09, 2008, 04:06:56 am: Very cool and high quality screenshots![8D][8D][8D]
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Post by: markofkane on April 09, 2008, 05:50:39 am: Very pretty!!![:D]
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Duskrider on April 09, 2008, 07:00:36 am: Audrey is really cute.[:p]

Please don't tell Sandee I said that.
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Jake on April 09, 2008, 03:39:45 pm: In the words of Audrey...

Yes, she knows she's cute, I already told her that!
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: Jake on May 02, 2008, 08:48:12 pm: More on Audrey...

Now when I type help into Audrey...

(http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/Jake/200852202940_AudreyViewer.jpg)

I get page 1 of my help file...

(http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/Jake/200852204425_AudreyHelp1.jpg)

The end plan is to have another help page that has pulldown menus to set figure, skin, hair, accessories, etc.
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Post by: tedathome on May 02, 2008, 10:59:35 pm: Very impresive.[:)][:)]
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Post by: Jake on May 05, 2008, 06:21:15 pm: Full body Audrey...

Still needs a little work, but coming along...

(http://www.zabaware.com/forum/uploaded/Jake/200855181845_FB_Audrey1.jpg)
Title: My first attempt at Audrey
Post by: tedathome on May 05, 2008, 08:27:17 pm: She's looking good. Nice outfit![:p]