In-Game Emotes Menu

DruidPC · August 19, 2019, 11:36pm

I love the newest emotes! This is certainly a fun update!

Repotted · August 20, 2019, 12:52am

Any chance we’ll see a topbar icon that actually matches the style? I see that there’s a drop shadow now (which is in the right direction) but it just genuinely seems like there’s no interest in any sort of consistency here.

Here’s why it’s inconsistent:

Sizing – The dimensions of the icon don’t seem to match up with the existing ones. The emote icon is significantly taller and thiner than the others. Here’s a comparison:

Border – The other icons are outlines, but the emote one is filled in. This leaves a pretty big difference in the appearance (& is probably the single biggest issue here). Here’s the resulting difference:

Shape – All of the other icons are have geometric shapes and angles. The emote icon, though, is wavy. Here’s what the shapes look like for comparison, outlined in red:

It probably would not be that difficult to fix up an icon for this. This will be seen likely in a majority of games on the site, so its appearance shouldn’t be blown off as an afterthought.

Just for fun & to illustrate the differences here, I remade a couple of the other icons in the same style as the new one. And please, please don’t do this:

RuizuKun_Dev · August 20, 2019, 5:41am

StarterPlayer.UserEmotesEnabled = false still shows the Emote Icon on the Top Bar

You shouldn’t need to do

StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.EmotesMenu, false)

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Wouldn’t it be nicer to Enable Emotes for ONLY newly created games rather than forcing it on all games?

This is another example of new features being forced down our throats and breaking our games without any warnings.

At least give us a heads up next time.

TheEldritchDreamer · August 20, 2019, 7:36am

Hi everyone
I just noticed the emote menu icon in-game!

However, I think it’d be great to have a default shortcut instead of having to press the menu icon at the left-top of the screen.
I’ve read the post and it was said it’s appointed to B but pressing that button doesn’t show up the menu for me.
I was wondering if it could be the ~ button by default instead? It’s easy to reach when using WASD for walking and doesn’t have any binds at the moment if I’m correct.
Obviously it should remain changable but for games who don’t have it readied up yet, it might be good to have a default keybind.

I think it’s a neat feature and I’m excited what it’ll bring in the future!

RuizuKun_Dev · August 20, 2019, 8:07am

That button is already assign to the Backpack

TheEldritchDreamer · August 20, 2019, 8:48am

Whoops… Guess I overlooked that one
Backpack would make more sense around the E … Either way, a button closer to the movement would be nice for emotes.

Edit: Or the Emote shortcut could be bound to E since emotes begins with that letter and leave the backpack as is. Would make more sense.

RecBtw · August 20, 2019, 9:58am

Lets just hope they don’t remove /e commands.

I think this is a pretty cool feature though and don’t see anything wrong with it yet.

TheGamer101 · August 20, 2019, 10:05am

We will revisit the text being shown here or not show the Emotes menu. Thanks for bringing it up.

This is intentional as it allows developers to use the Emotes feature but disable loading a users Emotes from the website.

We made a mistake in not giving developers notice initially when trying to release this feature but since then we have given a month of notice where the APIs to disable the feature have been available. Emotes could have been disabled during this time if you anticipated that it may cause issues in your game.

We needed to remove the default keybind as this was disruptive to existing games.

TheEldritchDreamer · August 20, 2019, 10:50am

Thanks for the update!

That means that developers should be responsible for the shortcut, right? Since otherwise it may disturb gameplay because of multiple actions bound to 1 key.

itslukemango · August 20, 2019, 12:47pm

This is interesting, going to have to play around with it and see what things are possible.

unidentifiedchris · August 20, 2019, 1:07pm

I hope there will be new emotes soon!

SyntaxLeader · August 20, 2019, 1:34pm

This is a really cool idea, can’t wait to see all the new emotes that’ll come from this update.

Dekkonot · August 20, 2019, 3:19pm

That feels strangely unintuitive. Is there any existing documentation for this and how to add emotes to the wheel?

TheGamer101 · August 20, 2019, 5:39pm

I don’t think it’s unintuitive. Disabling loading a users emotes is not the same as disabling the Emotes Menu. If this was treated as the same in the APIs then it would make the feature less powerful, developers wouldn’t be able to use the Emotes Menu feature while disabling loading a users emotes from the website.

This is outlined in the OP of this thread along with details of how to add to or modify the emotes for a player in your game. We also have a DevHub article about the Emotes feature coming soon.

blutreefrog · August 20, 2019, 6:16pm

Hi! I get this when I try to use the emotes in my game

But, I don’t call the API to disable it anywhere, and do call the API to enable it on the client
(game:GetService(“StarterGui”):SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.EmotesMenu, true))
any idea what is up?

Mirzadaswag · August 20, 2019, 6:55pm

Again, causes lots of problems with developers who already have E as their keybinds.

You can just bind some user input event then like use the Emote API to toggle it on/off instead, this is what we’re going for, not more trouble and controversy like before.

kiliov_tech · August 20, 2019, 7:29pm

It would be neat if we could press the number that corresponds to an emote in the menu to play it, instead of having to click it every single time.

Thundermaker300 · August 20, 2019, 8:08pm

Highly doubt they’re gonna do this without a setting that defaults to off. Too many games use the number keys for inputs (plus the core backpack itself).

RecBtw · August 20, 2019, 11:08pm

I have an idea.

Maybe developers can create their own animations and equip them into every players equipped emotes wheel?

Not important ATM but I think this is a cool feature that would help a lot of developers add emotes to their games!

Fm_Trick · August 21, 2019, 12:28am

If we have forked the default Animate script, what do we need to add to get the Emotes to display in the Topbar? I’m having a tough time finding exactly what my version is missing, and I can only get the Topbar button when I let the default Animate script load.