Fred Rookstown

Are there any decent ZHAO II-based AOs that can be used by Emerald users? The most recent Emerald viewer has a built-in AO, but my current AO is not moddable, so I cannot retrieve the notecard or animations in order to load them into Emerald. The creator's shop also appears to be closed.

I'd shop around on my own, but Vista's shop is so laggy I can't even take two steps without a lagspike.

Cindy Claveau

This is why I don't buy pre-loaded AOs.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Zhao AO free? All you need is the notecard, and a collection of your own animations which can be bought at most Animation shops. Most of the animations I've seen lately are copy/mod no-trans, so you can keep backups in inventory and load as many AOs as you want.

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Fred Rookstown

ZHAO itself is free; However, the animations are not, and all too often the shops are lagged to death by users teleporting in and out (a mono bug that LL has ignored for the last 8 server rollouts). I have plenty of money to buy animations with, fortunately, but I was hoping for some suggestions so I don't stand around in an effectively dead sim waiting for scripts to start up, only to find out that the animations are utter shit.

Beebo Brink

I recommend Cova -- it has both AOs and single animations for sale at very reasonable prices. They are copy, too, which means you can use them in various devices.

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Zii

Vista has a stall at Animation Warehouse, I think - it's very small, but not prohibitively laggy like their main store.

Personally, I really like Body Language. The animations are really smooth, no jerky movements. They can be a bit fidgety though, which is why I'm looking out for some other stuff to fit in with them S:
+1 for Cova, also. Cheap *n* I find the sim strangely laggy though, despite being the only person there when I visited last.

Malia Writer

So you know how to find the ZHAO-II notecard, all you need are some animations. The animations don't need to be full perm, but they do need to reside in your inventory in the same folder as the notecard you drop in Emerald.

Unfortunately, only you can decide which animations you like, and that by testing them. I'll recommend Outrider just cause I like it.

The Animation Warehouse seems to have just about every animator in SL represented there, so at least you would only have to struggle through one sim to test a lot of different animators' work.

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Chalice Yao

I personally went on a mad spree at Oracul.
Lots and lots of anims right there.

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