New game: Spyro the Dragon (models and levels), Final Fantasy 7 facial expressions

Spyro the Dragon

New game: Spyro the Dragon added to the library!

• Characters: Spyro, Sparx, rescued dragons, each with his speech animation (e.g. Nestor), enemies, egg thieves and bosses, like Gnasty Gnorc and Metalhead.
• Levels and cutscene sets, and they are alive, playing as soon as they open:
  • Water, waterfalls and lava flow, like in-game: Artisans Home, Magic Crafters Home, Twilight Harbor.
  • Lights pulse: the pool of Dark Hollow, lights from Tree Tops. TIP: click the Go To button to jump to each detail.
  • Flags, torches, lamps and campfires move: Stone Hill, Peace Keepers Home, Dream Weavers Home.
  • The level's sky color behind each level.
• Props, effects and sprite sets: chests, gems, dragon eggs, 3D font, flames.

Final Fantasy VII facial expressions

Final Fantasy 7 characters now have swappable eyes, mouths and facial expressions, blinking included!

• FF7 characters now blink, even in static poses.
• New Face row: select eyes (open, closed, happy, angry, sad, wink) and the mouth, or select the facial expression related to a game's scene. For example, Cloud's wink at the Honey Bee Inn.
• Try it on Tifa, Aerith, Barret and Cid, or even in the Shinra Manager.
• The face is persisted in every view mode, animation, split view, the Arena and GIF exports.

Thank you Last Elixir Productions for making the video "FFVII Hid a Whole Facial Animation System from Us", which led me to find the facial expressions in the game disc.

Final Fantasy VII Summons

• Supernova re-mapped, game accurate: the summon animation now draws the game's polygons, the Sun is not clipped anymore.

New on the website

• Single Pause / Play button per map and level, playing as soon as the place opens. See the World Map.
• GIF export of maps, levels, stages and dungeons with animated textures.
• Shift + V: vertex colors on and off (M still alternates a model's view modes).
• Zoom up to 20x.
• Thinner wireframe.

Website fixes

• Models that stopped loading ("HTTP 403") after the site stayed open for a couple of hours.
• Faster page loads: the catalog is now kept in the browser's cache.
• Show back faces no longer flickers where a front and a back face share the same spot.

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