Forum - Feedback - Eye blink in eye control panel - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Forum - Feedback - Eye blink in eye control panel - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Sat, 08 Aug 2015 21:10:04 GMT Sat, 08 Aug 2015 21:10:04 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from braj MrDrWho13 wrote:
braj wrote:
I thought you meant in the 'edit' view 'expressiveness' setting. Turning that down helps get rid of the over-enthusiastic smile while laying down at least

I think this is what he's referring to.


Actually he did mean the 'direct>character properties' but I wasn't seeing it, I went into Prepare and selected the character Anne I was working with, then Anne as the attachment, and under Track selected Expressive, and set Animation to Animate, now I have a slider to move during animation. Sorry, this just wasn't clear to me, now I see there is a bit more user accessible animation possible. This also shows me you can animate if a character is visible or not as well, or make a character turn green or whatever ]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2015 21:10:04 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 braj wrote:
I thought you meant in the 'edit' view 'expressiveness' setting. Turning that down helps get rid of the over-enthusiastic smile while laying down at least

I think this is what he's referring to.]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2015 21:01:15 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from braj fazz68 wrote:
you can animate the expressive nature of the face (ie the mouth) in direct character properties.


So can you animate that, it seems to be a static setting, I would like the character to go from neutral to a smile, I can turn it down to nothing but am not sure how to get it back smiling
Ah, I see you meant the frunction "direct character properties' I still don't see any way to animate the mouth there though. I thought you meant in the 'edit' view 'expressiveness' setting. Turning that down helps get rid of the over-enthusiastic smile while laying down at least
edited by braj on 08/08/2015]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:48:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from fazz68 Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:43:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:42:22 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from braj Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:21:40 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from braj Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:19:37 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 braj wrote:
Yeah, this morning with some clarity I saw that slider, it doesn't quite do blinks, and recording it is tricky, but it is almost there, and definitely gets the squints in. I wish there were something similar for mouth shapes. It would be nice to have the option to use the non-extended number keys for triggering actions as well.

You might be able to trick muvizu into the mouth movements with some audio files.]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2015 19:52:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from braj Sat, 08 Aug 2015 19:50:03 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 You may have noticed that most controls end up in a 3x3 grid. (Direct actions, camera cuts etc) this matches the layout on the numpad on you keyboard, which you can use to trigger actions. (You can find all the keyboard shortcuts in the question mark menu)
Edit: I misread your post. Since you don't have the numpad I'm not sure if you can use these functions. I shall look into it.
If you really require these functions you could always get yourself a cheap usb numpad: http://www.amazon.co.uk/DURAGADGET-Retractable-NumPad-USB-Attachment/dp/B0034IZO2Y/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1439029557&sr=8-5&keywords=numpad
edited by MrDrWho13 on 08/08/2015
edited by MrDrWho13 on 08/08/2015]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:27:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5090-eye-blink-in-eye-control-panel.aspx Message from braj
It would be cool if in the character action dialog to had three extra buttons for closing the mouth, maybe sticking out the tongue, and doing an "oo" animation that is so common when reacting to other character's actions.

Sorry, I'm a new user so I definitely haven't figured the whole app out, I use Anime Studio Pro for 2d animations, I am really stoked to have an easy to use environment for starting on3d animation, I love the headturn and eye controls, and would love to see more manual controls as the app develops. Being able to launch actions with hotkeys would really be great too. I am using a keyboard without an extended keypad, so maybe that is there, it certainly would be useful.

Anyhow, I have lots of requests mostly because there is so much potential to be leveraged, it is a really interesting way to get into animation, especially for those that don't have energy to figure out meshes a whatnot. Oh, it would also be cool to be able to add on different body weights, like the breast chest pieces, but I'm thinking different muscle tones, fat suits, pregnancy prosthetics, etc. Ok, I'll shut up now.]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2015 08:35:14 GMT