Difference between identical looking .htr's

[Dr.Benway]

If you want to grab a haptar from a webpage, you either drag the .htr-file from the temporary folder of the Haptek player or get if from the cache-folder of your browser, right?

Well, I found out that there IS a different between those haptars  although they share the same name. You can check this out for yourself. I’ll give two examples:

Hal.htr
Size of “Hal.htr” as found in folder “Zabawarecharacters”: 277 KB
Size of file “Hal.htr” as found in folder  â€œHap_temp”:1.109 KB

birthdaydemo.htr
Size of “birthdaydemo.htr” as found in folder “Temporary Internet Files”: 872 KB
Size of “birthdaydemo.htr” as found in folder “Hap_temp”: 2.700 KB

Those haptars with the same name but with different bytesizes look identical when you start them up. How is that possible? I have come to the conclusion that the smaller one’s are in fact COMPRESSED haptars. The compression of those haptars is done with the HapTargh-compressor as sold by Haptek. People Putty also uses this compressor to save haptars.

So, when you end up with two haptars that have the same name but with different bytesizes, then do not readily assume that the larger haptar is the better one. Perhaps you could better keep the small one and throw away the larger one.

BTW, check out  http://www.clone3d.com/birthday2.htm, if you haven’t done already.

[Duskrider]

Checked out the site and all 4 gals.
The maps are a lot different, yeah I'll spent some time on them.

I think what they planning is really cool on this page.
http://www.clone3d.com/bedtimestories/index.html
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[freddy888]

re; animating haptars,

is the best way to do new animations trial and error?

I'd like to add some new movements.

[Dr.Benway]

What exactly do you mean with "new movements"?

Facial expressions are best changed in People Putty.

The body movements supplied by "Crunch" are more or less copied from examples in other Haptek demo's, including Haptek products like Kate and Virtual Friend.

In your case I would visit the examples in http://www.haptek.com/tests and use them as a basis to experiment.

I have not yet done this myself.