Greet swap.

[emeraldfool]

I never understood the '/greet' thing. If someone 'greets' you, does that mean you pretend you've gone through the greeting process, or do you go on to a verbal greeting, or continue like nothing happened... it's just confusing.
I usually ignore it and go on to greet them 'manually'.
It just seems too OOC for everyone to stand there waving to each other at pointblank range like eejits...

[Garile]

hmm well I guess it depends how you look at it. Greetings in many cultures are a lot more formal then in the "western" one.

Perhaps in Yliakum it is found inpolite not to greet someone with a bow or something similar before starting to talk with them.

[Nurahk]

Or perhaps it's an option...

What?  A feature that's not meant to be used as often as possible....No wai!
If you want to wave, greet.  If you want to jump into a conversation, go right ahead.
The "x greets a" is just to bring attention to the fact that somebody is waving at you.  That way you don't have to do /greet and then /me waves at x.

I look forward to seeing the next inconsequential topic pop up

[Hybee]

Ok, I think this is a bit off topic.  Anyway, back on topic, how do you edit it to be this way? Is the file you use in the planeshift folder? 

[Idoru]

Ok, I think this is a bit off topic.  Anyway, back on topic, how do you edit it to be this way? Is the file you use in the planeshift folder? 

I think I speak for most of us when I say 'EH?!?!?!'

I have no idea what you are actually asking 

[Karyuu]

The idle animation is a lot less frequent than it used to be, I believe, so there isn't any real reason to switch the files aside from preference.

Find fynnwn_idle_var1 and fynnwn_greet inside the fynnwn folder within characters.zip, which in turn is located in the art folder of your main PS directory. Rename one to the other, and voila.

[Idoru]

D'oh, Karyuu shows how much more intuitive than me she is

[Hybee]

OK, I looked at the character file,(It's not a .zip on a Mac, as zip files on a mac are files, not folders) and there is no file by that name. 

[Karyuu]

Are you sure? I definitely see fynnwn_idle_var1.CAF and fynnwn_greet.CAF. Can you run a search for these files?

[Idoru]

welll, I dont use a mac and dont know how the directory structure works, but Characters.zip is a file on windows aswell. ART is the folder it is in, the other folders are compressed within the zip file.

[Hybee]

I do have those caf files, but they automaticaly open in Quicktime Player. lol. If I open them in text edit I get something like this:

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[Karyuu]

There is no need to open them at all. Just rename them - so fynnwn_idle_var1.CAF becomes fynnwn_greet.CAF, and visa versa.

[Hybee]

Erm, it didn't work. I still scratch my nose at people when I greet them, and bow for no reason aproximately(sp?) every 10 seconds.  Do you have to do it in the characters 2 file?
EDIT: I did it in both characters and characters 2 file, and it still didn't work.
Edit 2: Oops, char. 2 is a file I created accidentaly.

[emeraldfool]

Are you absolutely positive you've copied the names perfectly? Check the original filenames if you can, making sure of capitalisation and any invisible spaces you can't see at the start or end of the filename.

D'oh, Karyuu shows how much more intuitive than me she is

No, she shows how much more attention she pays to the original topic's subject

It's one of those menial jobs they give to the people whom the other devs are afraid of...

[Seytra]

In fact, there isn't need to rename files. You can simply open up the appropriate .cal3d file in a text editor and change things there. This is changing one file instead of two in this case, and nicer to do in all cases.

Regardless of what you do, you need to save the .zip afterwards, and restart PS so it loads the new configuration. If it isn't able to read the files (which would be the case if you didn't get the spelling / name correct), then it would either crash or not do the animation. In no case will it find it if it's even just slightly misspelt. If you accidentally created a copy, maybe you edited the wrong file or somesuch? Possibly you copied it inside the .zip instead of renaming, and / or the folder names inside are wrong? The system is pretty unforgiving.