Expressions HUD - SL Internals to Catwa

This is a Bento Expressions HUD made exclusively for use with Catwa Bento Heads and the Catwa Animation AO with the API button set to green.

This HUD "translates" furniture animations that activate old system-avatar facial expressions to instead play animations built into Catwa.

Competing Bento AOs use their own animations which can sometimes cause strange deformities or things like your tongue poking through your nose. This HUD will use the animations built by Catwa for their heads.

Without this item:
When you sit on furniture or otherwise play an animation that is supposed to move your face, such as making you cry, frown, smile, kiss, stick out your tongue, etc... nothing happens. Those expressions normally only work with a classic 'SL head'.

With this HUD:
What this HUD does is notice when something is trying to move your 'SL facial expressions' and then tell Catwa to play one of it's built in animations that is similar in style.

You must be wearing a Catwa Bento Head, and you MUST use the Catwa Animation AO and set the API button green or... this item will do nothing.
- That is 3 things to wear, 2 of which you probably already have on:

1. A Catwa Bento Mesh Head
2. CATWA HUD Animations (some gender and version number)
3. This HUD

When you wear this HUD it will either NOT appear, or be at the bottom right of the screen. I placed it OFF SCREEN on my monitor - but if you are at higher resolution than me you will still see it. It is perfectly safe to just edit it, zoom back, and drag it out of the box that marks your normal viewscreen. The prim it is in it editable so you can resize the HUD, change it's picture, make it transparent, or whatever you want...

There are 2 versions in the package.
A basic version - use this if you have NOT modified your CATWA HUD Animations.

A notecard configurable version - use this if you have added new replacement animations to your "CATWA HUD Animations" or feel that my choices for what expression plays what animation are not correct. The notecard has a wall of text full of explanations that I hope will make it clear what to do, but editing the notecard is for advanced users. Make a backup copy first.

This product should be re-deliverable on your own through marketplace should you edit that notecard in such a way that you break it. Please note that I do mean it when I say editing the config version is for advanced users.

This item is getting released on June 15, 2019. That will be version 1.0

If you have suggestions or find an error please let me know so I can fix it.

The prim of the HUD is modify, the script inside is no-mod. Both are copy/no-trans.

The basic version is a 14kb script.
The notecard version is a 20kb script.

My apologies for this being Catwa exclusive. It works through the Catwa API. I would need a completely different script solution for a different brand.

CAUTION: Catwa head animations are more subtle than many other bento-head animations. If you've seen your head animated with an 'off brand' animation these will seem mild, but they will also NOT 'poke your tongue through your eyeballs' or anything weird. :)