Ok, i’m not looking for code as such, just advice on the best way to go about this (with little of a learning curve if possible, very tight deadline!).
It’s basically a stage with 10 characters, and a song (2.5 minutes) playing. There’s multiple voices; all of the characters are swaying to the music, but begin a singing animation (either a generic singing cycle for each character, or a singing animation specific to the verse) when their part in the song plays.
I gather i’ll need to detect where the song is at? Will there be problems synching it all? Stretching the timeline to the length of the song is obviously out of the question, so would I have all of the characters, on the one frame only, and a script that on enterframe (repeats) checks if the song is at a certain point, then tells the characters to go to a certain animation marker? Should any of it be loaded in dynamically?
Otherwise I was just going to animate each character on it’s own timeline, one by one.
