Naruto: Naiteki Kensei (NNK) is a total conversion of the Half-Life engine based on the hit Japanese anime Naruto.

Report this article Friday update #1

Starting today, we will try to release a little update on the mod each Friday. Todays feature: Narutos facial expressions

Posted by DJ-Ready on May 9th, 2008 digg this super bookmark


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Welcome everybody to our first Friday night update

Today we'd like to introduce you to a minor but pretty neat feature, facial expressions.


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(some example facial animations)

It may not have a big impact on the actual gameplay (which will be revealed during the coming weeks) but we just love that kind of eye candy and to us, it adds a certain kind of depth to the game. :)

First, your character will perform certain facial animations depending on what he is actually doing. For instance, if you are hit by something and you scream a pain sound, your character will actually "scream " that sound. Though we don't actually have lip synced animations.

Now another nice little feature is that these animations will also react to anything you type into the ingame chat. So you will be able to perform certain expressions whenever you want, probably even combined with a "full body" animation if you're just standing idle while using the chat :)


Furthermore, we'd like to share one little wallpaper with you rendered by our talented artist Super Vegetto. More wallpapers will probably follow in the next few news updates.

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See you next time,
- the NNK Team

Comments
Harimau
Harimau May 9 2008, 11:21pm says:

lol @ the facial expressions. that's pretty cool. very reminiscent of the manga/anime.

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Henley
Henley May 10 2008, 12:47am replied: Online

do they blend?

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FJS
FJS May 10 2008, 12:35am says:

Nice!

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OrderOfDarkness
OrderOfDarkness May 10 2008, 3:51am says:

i cant see a screaming face?

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DJ-Ready
DJ-Ready May 10 2008, 6:13am replied:

The expressions on those two screenshots are only a few examples. There will be more then 8.

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DJ-Ready
DJ-Ready May 10 2008, 6:14am says:

The mouth is 100% animated so the animation itself will blend, the eyes are a subskin that will just stich on/off

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Black-Operative
Black-Operative May 10 2008, 6:10pm says:

Have you heard of the head crab jutsu?

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TakedaKeni
TakedaKeni May 11 2008, 2:17pm says:

Damn. I may not be a fan of Naruto, but...this looks nice.

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origin93
origin93 May 11 2008, 7:19pm says:

Naruto is fucking gay. not only that but this is for the HL1 engine and nobody plays it anymore. nobody will play this mod

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DJ-Ready
DJ-Ready May 13 2008, 11:31am replied:

Uuh wow, I think we should all then just stop modding this instant because some 14 year old retard doesn't like Naruto or Half-Life
I don't give a fuck about whether you like it or not.
Youngsters who can't appreciate the essence of modding. You disgust me. I bet you're one of those people who can't even do a simple hello world app without using a book (or ebook because you are to cheap to actually buy one) yet you demand kickass nextgen quality content from hobbyists made without any funds within a couple of months.

kthnxbai

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voogy
voogy Jun 11 2008, 7:49am says:

when I can donwload this?

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