Hello Little Sloppies,
One of the coolest features in BallSlop is the ability to animate you own mouth drawing. When you chat through the game, it picks up your voice through your mic and based on volume and pickup, it runs through the five frames you've drawn and it looks like the mouth on your sphere is actually moving and reacting as you speak.
Other players on screen view your sphere as if it's talkin to them no matter the angle at which you encounter them. And we have side profile views where other players spheres pop in while they are speaking.
HOW IT WORKS
You switch over to the MOUTH drawing preview in your customize screen. You start on the FULL mouth frame. This is helpful because starting here (and as long as you keep the linked box checked), allows the subseqeunt frames to pull that first frames art and slightly close it inward.
Drawing the FULL frame though isn't alwayss a perfect transiation from the others which is why we allow touching up and drawing on the other frames without affecting your FULL mouth frame. This enables players to fine tune each frame of the mouth if they wish.
Want to draw something that doesn't even look like a mouth? Go for it! Draw whatever you want (but please use discretion... you signed an EULA already remember...)
Want to free hand wach frame uniquely? Go for it! UNLINK the frames and have total freedom in drawing each one. Go wild and see what unique animation for your voice chat you can come up with!
Click the MIC TEST button and see what it looks like on your sphere! Or in a lobby you can press and hold your mic button OR enable OPEN MIC and have it always available to pick up your voice to see your drawn mouth animate.
Excited to see what you all are going to come up with!
If you're sloppy and you know it... slop your hands,
- Sloppy Joe Slops