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[emofurihelp]

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!

[emofurihelp]

In the import menu, my PSD shows all the parts. However, after accepting it, the PSD does not show up after importing.

Not sure what’s going on there. Unfortunately all I can really suggest is to make sure your program was installed properly. And make sure you are clicking the right buttons, I guess?Never heard of that problem before. Best of luck.

[emofurihelp]

Whenever I import my psd for some reason it always crops out part of the front hair and it does this after it's been properly imported. How do I get it to stop it?

Double check to make sure your boundaries are properly sized. Those are the solid colored rectangles. There’s one for the face (in its own folder), the head, the body, and the hair. Make sure the hair one goes a little beyond the edge of the hair (same for the other boundary layers).You can also check to make sure that on the import screen the dotted line outlining the shape of each piece is big enough. It should automatically be formatted to perfectly fit each piece. You can either reset it with the reset button on the import screen, or just click and drag the dotted line to where it should be.If that doesn’t fix it, I don’t know what else it could be. Best of luck!

[emofurihelp]

Hi there I want to ask about the blush. In your previous post you said you can control the blush with the full body MMO template. I was wondering can you still control the blush using the half body MMO? also, adding more layer that originally not in the template (ex: extra blush, mad eye, mad mouth etc) would it work?

In the half body template, there is no blush button. But you could add it in as an extra feature like you would any other additional piece. I suggest putting it on one of the fade options so you can turn it on and off. The full body template just comes with it already incorporated into it so I find it easier.Plus if you put in the extra work ahead of time to do the full body, you can always crop the final animations down to only half body while exporting/capturing them and you have more options to play with overall. Or just don’t draw in the pants/legs/skirt/lower body. It’s the same thing, really.But short answer, again, yes. You just have to add it in as an additional part.As for the second half of your question, I’m not quite sure what you are asking. If you are referring to having more drawn in than the example used in the template (as in a bigger blush area), then sure. You can have as much drawn on a layer as you want. Just make sure to double check the individual movements of things after importing (as you should when you do an import) to make sure everything lines up.As for extra mouths and eyes, as far as I’m aware there is no way to easily, seamlessly add in those extra features to the half body template. It’s not really a “half body” template so much as a “introductory” template. It only has the most basic features. The “full body” template is considered “basic” by Emofuri’s website because it has more features than the introductory template, but I guess if you pay for their program there is even more you could do. The point is though that if you want to use more than one expression, you have to use the “basic” (full body) template.If you are asking to something else, then please try to phrase the question differently to be clearer. Sorry about that.

[emofurihelp]

Hey there, everyone! This is a brief "tutorial" that is just going over what the menus are when adding in additional pieces to your imports. I figure I should go over this as many tutorials will be related to that and it's easier to explain all this first instead of every time in every tutorial. It's all fairly straightforward, so here you go!

Emofuri's Motion Manual, as mentioned above, can be found here. Google Translate should automatically kick in if using Google Chrome, and if not there is a translation button next to the bookmarks star you can click that will bring up the prompt to translate. It's very broken English, but it's better than nothing and helped me out a lot.

See you next time!

[emofurihelp]

Today we are dealing with eyes! Going over some basics of PSD layer setup and then on to how to add in new irises! The title gifs are some examples of what you could do. The reason there are 2 "evil cat eyes" is because 1 has the eye highlight underneath the new iris, and the other has it above. They create slightly different looks, and is an example of things you can do to change things up with the same pieces.

Fun fact: I misspelled "sclera" as "scalera" in all the pictures. It's a small thing that I am too lazy to fix at this time, so just be aware of it for now. Doesn't terribly matter unless you try to Google "scalera" though, as you will not get results relating to eye anatomy.

As I said, to start, here is a quick run down of what the layers on the Basic and Introductory templates look like. Again, I am working in Photoshop CS6, and have used the process described in my first tutorial (here) to make the actual art for the eyes.

The reason you can't have a partially open "Happy Closed" eye (such as when you smile and your cheeks partially close your eye) is because the Emofuri program negates the sclera, iris, eye highlight, and iris mapping layers when in either of the Closed positions. It does not matter if you add them in to your import, the items won't appear. You will end up with a creepy looking empty eyelid. If I ever figure out how to get around this, I will make a tutorial.

Sometimes you have a character that is creepy or grumpy or for whatever reason, has eyes that are "permanently" half open. Below I've used one of my characters, Virokketh, as an example as he has that kind of eyes. His scleras ("whites of the eyes") are also black, just as a heads up.

You may want to make the faux eye lid for the Introductory template bigger than what I did. I was playing quickly when I made that and even I would go back and make it a little bigger. Just to cover my bases.

Onward to adding in additional irises! This makes for interesting characterization as color changing irises are cool, or if you just want to be able to have a character's pupil's dilate or constrict. Or maybe disappear all together. The art made for the new irises is done the same way as you would the original irises.

Step 1: Add in the new pieces to your import. I definitely suggest going through the process of importing your PSD as per normal, making all the necessary tweaks you would to make it move smoothly, and only then going in to re-import your PSD to add in the new pieces. You can re-import a PSD and keep your movement adjustments from before. The ever helpful user tea-desu made a post about it that we have reblogged here as well.  This step can be a bit tricky because there are lots of menus to go through. I haven't gone through how to do this with the Introductory Template yet, so maybe I'll do that and go over it on Friday.

First you have to add in a new part and find your new piece's layer.

Then you have to tell the piece what it should adhere to, and how it should function.

Here is where I would say add one set of new irises FIRST, get them all adjusted and set, then do another re-import with the second, third, etc set (if you plan on having more). This will make it easier because you can just copy the placement grids from the first set onto the other ones, without all of them being in the way. Take my word for it, it's terribly annoying. Also, if you have multiple new irises, make sure you set them onto different fade controls. Step 2: Adjust the new irises' placement in Emofuri.

Even though it's adhered to the pupil, because it is supposed to fade in/out, it is given extra bounce/wind movements. Make sure you get rid of those! The character isn't wearing weird contacts...

After that you should be all set! Go play with the new eyes fading in and out!

I have tried this method with the sclera of the eye, but I haven't quite figured out how to get it to work with the blinking animation and also have it be able to be turned on and off.

I would say for now, if you have a character whose eye sclera (and maybe iris) change color, use one of the Extra Eye slots. It won't blink, but it'll work a lot easier. The reason it doesn't quite work the same as with the iris is that if you try to adhere it the same way, the sclera will move with the iris when it moves left/right/up/down which would show the normal sclera underneath. If you figure something out though, contact us! Hopefully this was helpful! It was a bit of a challenge to figure out, mostly because I was playing with a bunch of different possible ways to do it, but this way seemed to work the best. I hope you learned something and can use it in your own Emofuri animations! See you next time!