Log Addon - No lip animations since Improved Facial Animations

Scharesoft · November 2014

With the new update 5 and the improved facial animations there is a really annoying bug with one of the most important addons for me, the UespLog AddOn. With this addon almost everything is logged in the game. I need these data for a German knowledgebase, the Tamriel-Almanach.

After the update to 1.5.2 of eso a bug with the improved facial animations appears. The spoken dialogues begin a few seconds after the text appears and the lips do not move. If I disable the addon, it works again.

I tried to find the error, but I'm not come up with the solution. I checked all changes from api 100009 to 100010, but nothing helps.

A version with my fixes for the last update you can find here. The original UespLog AddOn you can find here.

I hope someone is able to help me with this problem! Thanks in advance!

(I asked the same question here)

Scharesoft · November 2014

It seems this issue is caused if I use the GetChatterGreeting() or GetChatterData() functions within the EVENT_CHATTER_BEGIN event. I can easily not call these functions but then I can't get the current dialogue string.

If I want to get facial animations working again I need to comment out this line like:

-- logData.bodyText = GetChatterGreeting()

in the function uespLog.OnChatterBegin (eventCode, optionCount) in uespLog.lua file.

I thing this could be also a bug in the game.

Garkin · November 2014

Both those functions plays dialog from the start, so it can probably cause some issues. My guess how to make it work would be unregistering event EVENT_CHATTER_BEGIN from ZO_InteractWindow and handle it from your function. That way GetChatterGreeting() won't be called twice.

Untested:

To the function uespLog.Initialize( self, addOnName ) add this line:

ZO_InteractWindow:UnregisterForEvent(EVENT_CHATTER_BEGIN)

To the function uespLog.OnChatterBegin (eventCode, optionCount) add the following (after the line where is called function GetChatterGreeting()):

INTERACT_WINDOW:InitializeInteractWindow(logData.bodyText)
INTERACT_WINDOW:PopulateChatterOptions(optionCount, false)

Scharesoft · November 2014

Thanks Garkin!

It's working now.

Scharesoft · March 2015

With the new update 6 I've got a problem again.

If I change nothing, this error message apears and the dialog window stays empty:

user:/AddOns/uespLog/uespLog.lua:1645: function expected instead of nil
stack traceback:
user:/AddOns/uespLog/uespLog.lua:1645: in function 'uespLog.OnChatterBegin'

This is the part why the error apears:

INTERACT_WINDOW:InitializeInteractWindow(ChatterGreeting)
INTERACT_WINDOW:PopulateChatterOptions(optionCount, false)

I need this to show the dialog because of this line:

ZO_InteractWindow:UnregisterForEvent(EVENT_CHATTER_BEGIN)

What do I have to change here to make it work again? Thanks in advance!

Garkin · March 2015

Scharesoft wrote: »

With the new update 6 I've got a problem again.

If I change nothing, this error message apears and the dialog window stays empty:

user:/AddOns/uespLog/uespLog.lua:1645: function expected instead of nil
stack traceback:
user:/AddOns/uespLog/uespLog.lua:1645: in function 'uespLog.OnChatterBegin'

This is the part why the error apears:

INTERACT_WINDOW:InitializeInteractWindow(ChatterGreeting)
INTERACT_WINDOW:PopulateChatterOptions(optionCount, false)

I need this to show the dialog because of this line:

ZO_InteractWindow:UnregisterForEvent(EVENT_CHATTER_BEGIN)

What do I have to change here to make it work again? Thanks in advance!

I have anwered your question on ESOUI, so I will just copy my answer here:

With Update 6 it should be INTERACTION instead of INTERACT_WINDOW:

INTERACTION:InitializeInteractWindow(ChatterGreeting)
INTERACTION:PopulateChatterOptions(optionCount, false)