Emotes While Sitting

Haytham_Of_Ishura

Hi Friends!

As an avid roleplayer, I really, really like to get immersed in the game. ESO has such a wonderful feel to it and roleplaying is a great experience.

One thing I am starting to notice as an obstacle is the lack of things our characters can do while sitting. For example, while sitting using either one of the /sit or /sitchair emotes, it would nice to have my character read a book, write something, or even have a glass of wine or an ale. Things like clapping, or even laughing, should be available while sitting.

I think this would greatly enhance the immersion while RPing and give our characters some added personality.

On a side note, would it be possible to make it such that while sitting, when accessing the menu, our characters remain in the same position instead of standing? I'm realizing that sometimes, when checking the map or inventory while RPing from a sitting position, our characters stand up. It's a minor, minor thing but worth mentioning.

Thanks for your time!

StackonClown

Haytham_Of_Ishura wrote: »

Hi Friends!

As an avid roleplayer, I really, really like to get immersed in the game. ESO has such a wonderful feel to it and roleplaying is a great experience.

One thing I am starting to notice as an obstacle is the lack of things our characters can do while sitting. For example, while sitting using either one of the /sit or /sitchair emotes, it would nice to have my character read a book, write something, or even have a glass of wine or an ale. Things like clapping, or even laughing, should be available while sitting.

I think this would greatly enhance the immersion while RPing and give our characters some added personality.

On a side note, would it be possible to make it such that while sitting, when accessing the menu, our characters remain in the same position instead of standing? I'm realizing that sometimes, when checking the map or inventory while RPing from a sitting position, our characters stand up. It's a minor, minor thing but worth mentioning.

Thanks for your time!

[/Necro]

Exactly this!

StackonClown

If I use /sit - then my alt sits in a semi-frozen posture.
if I then use /eat, he/she promptly stands up to eat some chicken or from a bowl!

Turelus

StackonClown wrote: »

If I use /sit - then my alt sits in a semi-frozen posture.
if I then use /eat, he/she promptly stands up to eat some chicken or from a bowl!

So what we need is /siteat !

StackonClown

@ZOS_GinaBruno , @ZOS_RichLambert sorry for the tag - can you please look in to this?

Can we please have emotes that can be possible while sitting? and not be forced to stand up to eat, greet, clap etc. ??
Its not urgent but would be awesome for immersion!

Thanks for reading!

StackonClown

Turelus wrote: »

StackonClown wrote: »

If I use /sit - then my alt sits in a semi-frozen posture.
if I then use /eat, he/she promptly stands up to eat some chicken or from a bowl!

So what we need is /siteat !

hehe

I hope you see the point here and the point of OP.... Most people sit to eat.. or if you are roleplaying you do a lot of things while sitting... it is a bit immersion breaking to 'jump to stand' and hopefully an easy fix!

Try it - and let me know what you think ?

Zenzuki

Yes! It's always bothered me that our toons just sit with their hands in their laps.

Now that sitting in all the chairs throughout the world is a thing, this is even more important to add to the game!

I like all mentioned in the above "ancient" op (like eating and drinking,etc.), but would also like to see:

• card holding, playing and/or shuffling
• dice rolling
• coin twirling through fingers, etc.
• skooma/hooka smoking, etc.
• pinfinger/five finger fillet
• all the facial, vocal and upper body emotes (laughing, slapping table, pointing, etc.)

Fun (game/bar like) activities people would do while sitting around a table.

StackonClown

Zenzuki wrote: »

Yes! It's always bothered me that our toons just sit with their hands in their laps.

Now that sitting in all the chairs throughout the world is a thing, this is even more important to add to the game!

I like all mentioned in the above "ancient" op (like eating and drinking,etc.), but would also like to see:

• card holding, playing and/or shuffling
• dice rolling
• coin twirling through fingers, etc.
• skooma/hooka smoking, etc.
• pinfinger/five finger fillet
• all the facial, vocal and upper body emotes (laughing, slapping table, pointing, etc.)

Fun (game/bar like) activities people would do while sitting around a table.

is there an official way to request this?

Ackwalan

Lap.....I mean /chairdance.

Avran_Sylt

Yeah, I mean you can already do the eating animation while running. The question is though, are these animations that are meshing together with one another, or are they animations for the specific scenario?

If they were to do this, would they make these "additional" layered animations require a keyword to indicate that they should only effect unused bones in the model?

I.E. The player types in: /sit
so the player sits.
The player may want to eat while sitting, so perhaps they use the /siteat command, which is in my opinion annyoing (longer, and the engine would have to check to see if you are indeed sitting first)
Or, they introduce a command character for emotes. using the plus symbol after the forward slash would tell the game that you intend to have the animation as a secondary, or something that has lower "weight" associated with bone movement of the models.

I.E The players types in /sit
the player sits,
They want to eat while sitting,
during the sitting animation they type /+eat

This will make chaining emotes a bit more intuitive.

Though stress testing the system to see how we could make our character look like some form of shambling deranged maniac would be hilarious.

AlienatedGoat

Yes please, for the love of all:

Let me drink my beer while sitting.

Let me eat my meal while sitting.

Let me laugh while sitting.

Let me cry while sitting.

Let me threaten while sitting.

Let me sleep while sitting.

Let me point while sitting.

Let me greet while sitting.

Let me dance while sitting. (CHAIRDANCE YA'LL)





The funniest part is you can jump on top of a chair and /sitchair.

LITERALLY SIT WHILE YOU SIT.

Betheny

Using a chair should at least come with a set of built-in idle animations.

And let us use beds finally like we can use chairs.

StackonClown

Phage wrote: »

LITERALLY SIT WHILE YOU SIT.

Be careful you dont add an extra H above - agreed with all!

StackonClown

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

Yeah, I mean you can already do the eating animation while running. The question is though, are these animations that are meshing together with one another, or are they animations for the specific scenario?

If they were to do this, would they make these "additional" layered animations require a keyword to indicate that they should only effect unused bones in the model?

I.E. The player types in: /sit
so the player sits.
The player may want to eat while sitting, so perhaps they use the /siteat command, which is in my opinion annyoing (longer, and the engine would have to check to see if you are indeed sitting first)
Or, they introduce a command character for emotes. using the plus symbol after the forward slash would tell the game that you intend to have the animation as a secondary, or something that has lower "weight" associated with bone movement of the models.

I.E The players types in /sit
the player sits,
They want to eat while sitting,
during the sitting animation they type /+eat

This will make chaining emotes a bit more intuitive.

Though stress testing the system to see how we could make our character look like some form of shambling deranged maniac would be hilarious.

Interesting post +1 !

Part of my motivation for this is *housing*!

I went to a guildmaster's house a few times and apart from always being empty, all you can do is stand around, run around or sit in a frozen position!

Why are people even bothering with housing?? - without proper immersion noone will use them!!! (as is clearly the case)

Zeni please! - I thought you took RPG seriously?

"Standing to attention to eat", is, laughable! - this being just one example.

Rather than spending so much time with thousands of craftable items like 'Nord streetlamp with purple highlights', how about making the ingame world 'richer' by adding a lot more interaction ??

randolphbenoit

It be nice if two people can sit on benches and couches. And why we can not sit on bar stools? reading newspaper emote would be cool :P

Sausage

I believe we are getting even something better, at least we have spoken about Idle-Animations. Not that I know that Zen is making them but I really believe they are doing them. Idle-animations are just pure win, for players and NPCs too and yeah, for the game itself. I fully think they are taking that route, seems to be the best overall strategy.

MissBizz

StackonClown wrote: »

Zenzuki wrote: »

Yes! It's always bothered me that our toons just sit with their hands in their laps.

Now that sitting in all the chairs throughout the world is a thing, this is even more important to add to the game!

I like all mentioned in the above "ancient" op (like eating and drinking,etc.), but would also like to see:

• card holding, playing and/or shuffling
• dice rolling
• coin twirling through fingers, etc.
• skooma/hooka smoking, etc.
• pinfinger/five finger fillet
• all the facial, vocal and upper body emotes (laughing, slapping table, pointing, etc.)

Fun (game/bar like) activities people would do while sitting around a table.

is there an official way to request this?

You can put in /feedback in game!

StackonClown

MissBizz wrote: »

StackonClown wrote: »

Zenzuki wrote: »

Yes! It's always bothered me that our toons just sit with their hands in their laps.

Now that sitting in all the chairs throughout the world is a thing, this is even more important to add to the game!

I like all mentioned in the above "ancient" op (like eating and drinking,etc.), but would also like to see:

• card holding, playing and/or shuffling
• dice rolling
• coin twirling through fingers, etc.
• skooma/hooka smoking, etc.
• pinfinger/five finger fillet
• all the facial, vocal and upper body emotes (laughing, slapping table, pointing, etc.)

Fun (game/bar like) activities people would do while sitting around a table.

is there an official way to request this?

You can put in /feedback in game!

Thanks! - i will do this shortly

StackonClown

Sausage wrote: »

I believe we are getting even something better, at least we have spoken about Idle-Animations. Not that I know that Zen is making them but I really believe they are doing them. Idle-animations are just pure win, for players and NPCs too and yeah, for the game itself. I fully think they are taking that route, seems to be the best overall strategy.

Sounds interesting, but is this on demand or simply cycling through random idle animations.

lunawisp

Would be nice to have selectable emotes while sitting but that's not easy. There are currently seven sit emotes, all use completely different positions, etc. If you add a new emote to run from a sit position, you have to cater for the possibility of starting from any one of those seven postures, so you're looking at least seven new emotes for each act you want to carry out, not just one. That's why they usually force your character to stand before starting an emote, so your character is in a known posture.

StackonClown

lunawisp wrote: »

Would be nice to have selectable emotes while sitting but that's not easy. There are currently seven sit emotes, all use completely different positions, etc. If you add a new emote to run from a sit position, you have to cater for the possibility of starting from any one of those seven postures, so you're looking at least seven new emotes for each act you want to carry out, not just one. That's why they usually force your character to stand before starting an emote, so your character is in a known posture.

The main idea is not necessarily to start non-sitting emotes while sitting (e.g. run from being seated.. standing up is fine for that ... ).

It is to remain seated and do some 'sub-emotes' such as eat drink, read, clap.

i.e. *things you would do in real life*

Maybe it is not easy, but surely not impossible for the clever devs ??

StackonClown

StackonClown wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

StackonClown wrote: »

Zenzuki wrote: »

Yes! It's always bothered me that our toons just sit with their hands in their laps.

Now that sitting in all the chairs throughout the world is a thing, this is even more important to add to the game!

I like all mentioned in the above "ancient" op (like eating and drinking,etc.), but would also like to see:

• card holding, playing and/or shuffling
• dice rolling
• coin twirling through fingers, etc.
• skooma/hooka smoking, etc.
• pinfinger/five finger fillet
• all the facial, vocal and upper body emotes (laughing, slapping table, pointing, etc.)

Fun (game/bar like) activities people would do while sitting around a table.

is there an official way to request this?

You can put in /feedback in game!

Thanks! - i will do this shortly

Feedback submitted!

StackonClown

Do we get feedback to our feedback? heard nothing from Zenny .....

Magdalina

Isn't there an addon that does that? At least there definitely used to be one that allowed you to stay sitting or dancing or whatever as you loom in your bag/menu etc.

I don't rp but jumping up to eat or do whatever else is kind of silly

altemriel

I need /smoke pipe emote pls!!!