I just tried out this Lua editor, and it makes reading the new Lua Personas much easier. Everything is formatted for editing.

http://www.matejtomcik.com/Public/Projects/Kozola/

Thanks a lot Rampa!
I got familiar with the AML text file structure (easy!) and now I am checking the AML tool tutorials.
Even though Peter in the past mentioned that the files generated by the tool will have issues with iClone5, the tutorials are still valid to understand what can be done with an AML file.

Cheers

  Roberto





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Notepad++ will also show the LUA text with some formatting

Cheers



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Tested and confirmed. It works great for editing and saving the "Lua" format Personas. This is how you'll probably want to edit the Personas that you get building performs in 3DXchange.

Don't forget to set your iClone Gizmos to "local" if you want to see them twirl around when you scrub your timeline.

Yeah, I've been writing Lua scripts for years with Notepad++, so that's my go-to editor.

Thanks for checking this all out.  I can see I have some Persona creation to do this weekend <g>.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Thanks for pointing that out! It's much easier, as it has search and replace.

Little update here.

It seems you often need to add one additional command. Performs don't get the tracking added automatically always, it seems.

So....... Here are the exact terms for search and replace. Technically, the replace can be on three lines, but it works just as well on one. It's easier to do as well.

Find  this:                                        TargetNode = "$";
Replace all instances with this:       TargetNode = "$";SampleTransform = "Normal";TargetNode = "$";AlignOrientation = true;       

These are generic commands, and so are identical for all performs. I put it on a sticky note for easy access.

Notepad++ will open the last documents you were working on so you could just have one document that is only those lines and then whenever you open up a Persona doc it will also open up that little insert doc you can then just copy/paste into your search and replace terms.

Thanks for all the research!

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Another important thing I discovered.

If you need to save the Persona from within iClone, there are two ways. In the "Persoona" tab, you can hit the "+" in the content manager. When you save the Persona this way, it encrypts it. My guess is that it's actually compressing it, but not sure. This encryption is common to all the iFormats. If you right-click on your avatar and save the Persona from the menu, it is not encrypted, and you can load, read, and edit it in Notepad++.

The "Operate" from the right-click menu still works as well. 3DX does not have a way to add anything to it. I was able to create an operate using the old AML editor. So that would add 50 more motions you can get in one Persona.

I've used the AML editor quite a bit for making better "Move" commands that use my custom walk loops (re-looped from the Motion Puppet) Now I just need to figure out how to get the move commands into the 3DX generated Persona. I need to figure out what goes where in the Lua script.

"Idle" commands don't have a way to be initiated anymore AFAIK. They kicked-in as part the old "Director Mode".