#emofuri help

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I tried using Emofuri and I almost did it right but why does everything but the whiteness for my eyes move?? Can someone help me please?

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After I've made sure all of my layers are named correctly, I tried to import the psd. file, and a preview of it appeared with the "background" and "chest/whatever" text in red. I hid those two, then pressed the import button, and an information box opened up, telling me something I couldn't read. I pressed OK, and emofuri shut itself down. If this helps, for some reason there's a separate box titled "History Panel" always open with the program, and I can't close it.

First off, thank you for the detailed description! This is the kind of info that makes determining solutions to problems much, much, much easier.It sounds like Emofuri is crashing when you try to import. From poking around the Emofuri forums (the Beginner/General Q&A section; use Google Translate to read in English, or whatever your native language if not Japanese) it sounds like it could be one of 3 things:1) Try clicking the reset button after the initial import.2) It could be that the file you are using is too big, which causes the program to crash due to the work load on your computer. Try scaling the picture down a little to reduce the file size.3) If you are using a pretty old version of Photoshop, the way the file is written could be messing with Emofuri (even though it’s still a PSD, depending on how old the version of Photoshop is it might be an incompatible file).Option 3 seems the least likely to me, so try doing an import, press reset, make your changes, then click Import. If it still crashes, try again after you scale your image/file size down.In regards to the History Panel, I’m not sure. There should be an X for that window to close/hide it, like in Photoshop and other programs.

Personally I just kind of toss it in the bottom left corner and it gets hidden behind the main program window when I start working. The only time I notice it is if I minimize Emofuri. If it’s not doing that for you, I would probably just keep it in the bottom left corner. It takes up empty space on the menu area and out of the main work space.I hope this helps! Best of luck!

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Is emofuri safe to download?

Yes it is! You can download it here, and follow the installation tutorials provided on this blog to install it properly. This one is a good one.The main thing is to change your computer’s locale to Japan, install the program, and so long as you leave your computer’s locale to Japan when using the program, it should run fine.You do not need to change the computer’s language to Japanese, though the program is only in Japanese.

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Tutorial Suggestions

Please leave suggestions for new tutorials in the ask, fan mail, or just answer here. I will be on hiatus for about a month because I am going on a vacation next week and after that I am moving. Things are a little crazy here. I'll still be checking the blog, so I'll still see questions and suggestions, I just won't have the time to make or post new tutorials on Tuesdays regularly. I'm going to try to get at least one or two tutorials in, but when isn't quite clear. For now, enjoy some National Lampoon:

Suggestion Box: What topics would you like to see a tutorial of?

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I can't seem to get my emofuri to work anywhere else but on DA. Help?

If you are referring to the actual exported GIF, it may be that your file size is too large. Tumblr has a file size limit, once over that limit GIFs do not play. You will only see a still picture.There are ways to make your GIFs smaller. You can scale it down in the export screen, or use a GIF capture program to reduce the size.

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Okay! Because someone requested an exploration of expressions, here it is! This is just an overview sort of, but it might have some information you didn't know. So to start, this is where the facial expression controls are.

This is the translation of what each of those controls is. And to kick things off, the eyes! As always, make sure you have checked how everything looks and fixed any problematic pieces or adjusted to your liking after your initial import.

The eyebrows can be tricky to line up the transition pieces. Make sure you go through ALL the options and try to get the transition eyebrows between steps to match as much as possible.

This is the diagram I grabbed from the Emofuri Motion Manual. It shows the path Emofuri takes between eyebrows. It's not a straight through like with the eyes.

Here are some quick expressions I whipped up with Sekan.

   I hope this helps!

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Tutorial Suggestions

Kind of at a loss of ideas of tutorials to make or that people would be interested in seeing. Especially since most things I can think of center around extra pieces. But since I already made a thing that gives you the translations for menus for additional pieces, that seems pretty much covered. What tutorial topics do you want me to explore?

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I cant export my image for some reason without it being cut off, i tried changing the resolution and anything but even when the resolution is that of the image the head is cut off

These are your Capture Menu options:If your character’s head is getting cropped, increase the value on the Placement on Y Axis and it will move the entire image down within the given canvas size.Also make sure you have a big enough canvas size. The preview image will be whichever frame you are currently on in that Timeline, so leave it on a frame in which the character is peaked at a high point and work around that for your canvas dimensions and character placement.Scaling the image down will also help keep the file size smaller and allow you to work with more reasonable dimensions depending on how large you made your initial PSD.That should fix the issue. If it doesn’t I don’t know what is wrong.Best of luck!As a side note about the Capture Menu:The Timeline Fusion allows you to fuse your selected timeline with another one. I wasn’t particularly fond of the results, but it’s an interesting option to have available.The End of Timeline Hold extends your animation by however many seconds and holds the last frame of your animation. It’s an option you could use instead of having to drag your final animation frames out longer in the Timeline.The Frames per second is exactly that, but choosing a higher or lower option will increase or decrease the amount of time the animation takes to play. Don’t forget the animation cutoff on the free version of Emofuri is 4 seconds, so anything longer than that will be cut off!You can see how long your animation will be on the bottom bit of text below the preview window (in the picture it’s 30 FPS and exactly 4 seconds). The 120 above that is the number of frames that will be shown based on the selected option of Frames per second.