Another new version to play with...

It now includes FTP download from the empeg, configuration via ini file, status messages and more. Check the ReadMe for details.

FlanceEdit V6

Note...
As it no longer uses the registry, you'll need to reselect your empeg name and other options when run for the first time...

neat.
Downloading now

AWESOME!!!
Thanks...

I've created a few new moves... some Pole Dancers...they look funny...

Well, let's see them!

And when is someone going to do EV'RYBODY WAS KUNG-FU FIGHTING!!!!!

they said they aren't ready...they're shy around others...

I'm still working on making it timed right...
I need more then just two...soon though...
anybody got ideas?

This is just awesome and one of the funniest things i've seen in ages.

I'm trying to understand how the dance gets chosen. It seems that each man chooses BreakDance, PrinceDance, StonkDance and then sticks to it unitl the visual is reselected or reseeded.

Within each Dance, the next move is selected randomly as the last move is completed. It seems the last 2 single frame moves serve the purpose of moving the guy about ?

So presently, does anyone know a way of syncronising the men (into routines), or getting then to choose the same dance, or linking the dance to a genre, or is this controlled within the visual itself.

More testing ... it seems the last move never gets selected. So I don't know why it's there.

It seems to randomly select any move but the last one within a paticular dance. Then either play it, or mirror image play it.

First I'll say awesome...
I love it...
and I'll attach my file, warning: It's a bit risque

Next: feature tweaks
1. could you add exit to the end of the file menu?
I know it sounds dumb, but I'm used to windows apps and I almost hit reboot everytime...
2. do you think it could save in the ini, the last past it loaded from or saved too?
I hate having to navigate from C:\ everytime
3. I think it would be easier for some people if you had a way to enter the ftp password through the interface. Maybe that's doesn't matter since anyone setting ftp passwords should know how to look in the ini, but the first time I tried and it said wrong password, I was like "Hey where do I enter one?"

thanks

Tony,
I posted the dancers in my last message in this thread...btw

How did you put the pole in there?

It's just the forearm
That's why one hand always is at the top...

"You have to realize the spoon isn't really there."

never mind - I see it now

I need more ideas for moves to add to it...
any ideas?

maybe some sort of hand stand on the poll... slide the top hand down anout 3/4 and then have the feet come up and over the head into a hand stand type position.

good idea...
I'll have to work on that later tonight...

although, I guess that won't work because you would lose the top of the pole....

That's quite a neat trick to make the pole... =)

I've implemented the first 2 suggestions (I've been meaning to store the last used paths for a while, but kept forgetting)

I'll put some username and password dialogs into V7 before release (probably be some time tomorrow before I've got a chance to work on it again)

well...I can just lose the bends in the arms and make one go each way for the pole...
I had that for a while with the ones now, but I wanted one arm to bend...

but more i think...maybe it won't...
sounds like you gave me a good challenge.. :-)

great...thanks...

I'm ok with it now...
just thought it's be a nice upgrade :-)

I was bored... heh

What'd really be cool is animated GIF's or PNG's of the dances!

That is too cool and funny. These are great! everyone keep them coming!

LOREN! Where are yours?! You're an animator for crissakes!

I now officially apologize for having sat on the filespec for so long without writing an editor. This should have happened a long time ago!

like i said in another thread... Flance anims and the FAQ are loosing out priority wise to my home component empeg box at the moment... and i'm crushed at work already for E3, so i don't have much spare time on my hands. I'll get to it I swear! =]

come on man...
I'm interested it what kind of stick figures LucasArts would create :-)

Cool! More new features to play with!

Bugs:
- When doing an FTP download, it doesn't warn about unsaved changes.
- File load doesn't warn about unsaved changes.
- Not sure exactly how to reproduce, but when adding more moves than the original had (may have to add 3 so you're working with ones past the 2 blanks) I often get an error dialog reading "List index out of bounds (-1)" when I select a high-numbered move.
Example: stonkdance.raw has 2 moves and 2 blanks. I added many more moves. When I select move 0, 1 or 2, it's fine. When I select move 3, I get "List index out of bounds (0)" when I select anything higher than 3, I get (-1) rather than (0). V5 and V6 give the same error, but V4 says "Access violation at address 5105F611 in module 'FLACEEDIT.EXE'. Read of address FFFFFFFF" (not sure if that helps at all).

Cosmetic request:
- Most windows apps put an elipsis (...) after menu options that will pop up a dialog to ask for more info (just Load, Save, Rename Move & Set Grid Size, not Delete Frame/Move).

Feature request:
- I have no idea how hard (or easy) it is to add drag-and-drop support... e.g. drag a .raw file into the editor window and have it load that file.

Having both FTP upload and download makes it so it's easier to just work with the files on the empeg than it is to save to C:

one's with lightsabers obviously.

hey...that gives mean idea...
your company won't sue me will they ?

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but what about a way to import/export moves. I was working on one at my gf's house but when i got home i was not able to merge the one here at home with that one. I tried to open flance edit twice to copy and past frames from one to another but that didnt work as well.

Just a suggestion, not complianing ; ). I love the program.

-Greg

Hope you don't mind I edited in the Pole dance (got to love the pole dancers)

Is there a $40 option for that pole dancing routine? How about the $80 option?

Bruno

Then it wouldn't be a pole dance, any more, would it? It would be a rather different kind of dance.

We call it the "Windsor Ballet" here because of the lax'd laws in Windsor compared to Detroit.

Things can get pretty raunchy in some Ontario places so I hear. But. Let me tell you, I've never heard of any place around here where what's done in San Francisco is acceptable/common practise. Centerfolds in San Fran. Nice. Very very nice.

And Tony. It could still be a pole dance...

Bruno

I have to post one for all that remember Beavis & Butthead.

here my attempt at the ait guitar, as seen in bill and teds excilent adventure.. it looks ways better on the player than on the editor.

im sure you all could love this one.. ill see you at the YMCA!

last one for tonite.. it turned out bad.. im going to have to redo it.. i remember this dance from the weezer boddy holly video.. dafonze at the end doign something simliar to this.. but it just looks weird when i made it

how'd you copy the moves from one file to another?
you didn't actually copy every frame did you???
that must have taken a long time...it looks good though...

yeah...I've been trying to do lap dancers...they look dumb though, with no laps to dance on. I wish they could interact...

I'm working on recreating the first light saber fight (between Obi Wan and Darth Vader) hopefully it will happen to pick them both with two different dancers...
It's hard though...
I don't know if I'll be able to finish...

here's the pole dancers with that weird head stand splits thing...looks funny I think....

doesn't look that funny... nice work!

thanks man...
i have it running on my desk here at work,
I was talking to someone then I realized they were looking past me at the empeg...
They said "what the heck is that??" (refering to the pole dancers, it only had two dancers on screen and both were pole dancing..)
hehe...

Yes I did, I used the X,Y coordinates to copy each frame I was board at the time it was fun to do, though it would be nice to be able to import dance moves into others (i.e. merge dances) hint hint wink wink Jazzwire.

Okay, quick question (anybody): Do the new dances replace existing ones, or are they just added to the player's list?

Thanks

replace

Brilliant work on this! You've made Toby very happy

Rob

Brilliant work on this! You've made Toby very happy

Cool! How about asking Toby if he can allow (in future releases) for a filespec which allows for any number of randomly-named dancer files in the /empeg/lib/visuals folder. For instance, maybe it could parse for "*dance.raw" instead of loading three specific files. Then we can mix'n'match.

Oh, and I have to say the magic word:

visual

All this talk about Toby only responding to ``visual'' has made me want to do this for a while, and I apologize in advance, whether it works or not:

KIBO

ROTFL. Haven't heard that name in a while.

Does Kibo still respond?

my flace edit mission for tonite will be liquid dancing.. like raving and what not.. this is going to be bad ass..

Mmm.. I've been wondering how to get more than three dance styles into the player simultaneously..

Could it be as simple as just "concatenating" the moves from several dances into a single .raw file.. ??

Anyone try this?

Here's an updated BeavisDance (if any one cares)

And here's a new one of some old school hiphop dancing.