Booper

Boopers are a feature commonly found on user avatars. They are scripted interactions that happen when a user either physically presses or clicks on the nose or a different part of an avatar. Often this plays a sound effect and can come with visual effects like a squeezed nose, particle effects, etc.

While many users might seem fine with it, touching users without their consent is against Resonite's Community Guidelines. Make sure you have a user's permission before booping them.

Examples

Simple sound booper using only components.

The simplest Boopers can be as easy as having a SphereCollider, a TouchButton and a ButtonAudioClipPlayer on a slot under your head or nose bones.

A better way involves going to the head or nose slot in your avatar's armature and creating a child. Then add a SphereCollider component before setting it's radius to something that roughly matches your nose, and move that slot to where the nose is. Pressing 'Visualize Collider' will make setting the collider size easier, shown green in the example.

Add the TouchButton and a ButtonAudioClipPlayer or RandomAudioClipPlayer components, then find a StaticAudioClip or use the Microphone tool to record a sound. Then press the 'Add Clip' button on the player component and drop either an audio Player or a StaticAudioClip into the 'Clip' field.

A more advanced booper would involve using ProtoFlux. After adding the TouchButton you can drag that component into the Button field of a ButtonEvents node. After that you can trigger anything you want with the outputs of ButtonEvents.

Standards

Avatar Standard also defines Dynamic variables and a standardized way of positioning booper on a given Avatar. More info on how to set it up can be found on the Booper Section.

Do note that it's not required to follow the Standard. But it can be use full for other Systems to integrate and interact with the booper.

Tutorials

Culture

Boopers are a very common Avatar System in Resonite. A lot of users have special effects that can be triggered trough the booper. Ranging from simple sound effects, to even triggering a mini game.

Examples

Audio
- Voice Clips
- Music
- Sound effects
- Animal Noises
Particles
Interaction with other systems
- Counting the total number of boops on a leaderboard
- Making the booped user switch clothes or color
Blendshape Toggles
- Denting in the nose as if it was pressed in by the booping user
- Changing facial expressions
Affecting the booping User
- Applying a character force
- Having them play a mini game

Oftentimes the effects are also randomized and have a varying chance of occurring. This can easily be achieved by using a RandomAudioClipPlayer and changing the weight for each audio clip