Tagged 'morph'

A small function script that automates the process of connecting a four way spline control for use in facial animation to four morph shapes placed in any order on a morph modifier and named appropriately. It takes five parameters - four morph shapes and the name of the control handle.

Create a complete head rig, with facial animation controls as recommended by Jason Osipa in his book 'Stop Staring'. Starting just with a head mesh, create bones for jaw, head,neck and eyelids. Also create a couple of spline controls for the eyes and the chin. Running the 'eyerig' script creates a rollout with pick buttons for all needed bones and meshes, then sets up the eye and head rigs, as well as placing a skin modifier on the mesh, with the required bones added, ready for vertex weighting. The rig also caters for 'fleshy eyelids' that move with the eye.

Script to mirror (or symmetry) morph targets. Just run the script.

A set of tools to work with the morph modifier.

Features:

• Put an edit poly over the morph modifier to make any changes, then use the script to collapse the edit poly keeping the morpher operational. 
• Extract the shapes to work on them separately and then load them again with one click. 
• Skinwrap an object on another with a morph modifier, then convert the skinwrap to a new morpher.
• Copy the animation track from one morpher to another, matching channels by name or number.

Known issues:
morpher channels with spaces on the name cause an error.
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