Post by Theodar on Jan 16, 2006 16:20:29 GMT 1
Emotes - Showing Emotions and Actions
There you are. Just standing there and showing no sign of life. A big pile of pixels trying to represent this character you've made up in your mind (or trying to mold). Is there a way to make this character live and breath except run around and gank mobs all 'round Azeroth? The answer is; yes, there is!
Showing your characters emotions, actions, feelings, mood etc is not as hard as you might think. Though everything can not be said (say - i.e. /s) in words, how then?
Standard Emotes
There are standard emotes available for everyone knowing how. For example you have my personal favorite /chuckle (got a macro button for it) which both makes a chuckle sound and a text emote. Other samples might be /bow, /hello, /wave and /smile. There are a whole bunch of other that you can access from the little menu-button on the chat window(s).
Your First Own Emote
The technique is quite simple. Fail-safe step-by-step guide:
1. Press the [enter] button to bring up your text-marker.
2. Type /e and press the [spacebar] (this brings up your name in orange text but
keeps the text marker).
3. Continue typing your emote, for example "is feeling sad because nobody notices her/him".
4. Press enter to "publish" the emote to the WoW-world.
That wasn't so hard, was it? Good. *smiles*
Using Targets
If you have a target selected and use one of the standard emotes such as /smile it would make for example "Theodar smiles at Heqtor" if I had Heqtor targeted. Targets can also be used when typing your own emotes using the characters %t. %t stands for the target currently selected and if none is selected you will get the text "<no target>". Let's try this. Typing "/e throws a snowball at %t" would result in "Theodar throws a snowball at Mangohran" if Mangohran was the current target.
That's all for now! Might extend this guide later on.
Have fun emoting and enjoy a time full of life in WoW! ;D
There you are. Just standing there and showing no sign of life. A big pile of pixels trying to represent this character you've made up in your mind (or trying to mold). Is there a way to make this character live and breath except run around and gank mobs all 'round Azeroth? The answer is; yes, there is!
Showing your characters emotions, actions, feelings, mood etc is not as hard as you might think. Though everything can not be said (say - i.e. /s) in words, how then?
Standard Emotes
There are standard emotes available for everyone knowing how. For example you have my personal favorite /chuckle (got a macro button for it) which both makes a chuckle sound and a text emote. Other samples might be /bow, /hello, /wave and /smile. There are a whole bunch of other that you can access from the little menu-button on the chat window(s).
Your First Own Emote
The technique is quite simple. Fail-safe step-by-step guide:
1. Press the [enter] button to bring up your text-marker.
2. Type /e and press the [spacebar] (this brings up your name in orange text but
keeps the text marker).
3. Continue typing your emote, for example "is feeling sad because nobody notices her/him".
4. Press enter to "publish" the emote to the WoW-world.
That wasn't so hard, was it? Good. *smiles*
Using Targets
If you have a target selected and use one of the standard emotes such as /smile it would make for example "Theodar smiles at Heqtor" if I had Heqtor targeted. Targets can also be used when typing your own emotes using the characters %t. %t stands for the target currently selected and if none is selected you will get the text "<no target>". Let's try this. Typing "/e throws a snowball at %t" would result in "Theodar throws a snowball at Mangohran" if Mangohran was the current target.
That's all for now! Might extend this guide later on.
Have fun emoting and enjoy a time full of life in WoW! ;D
