A few years ago when I first looked at AS (5.1?) there was a tutorial included which showed how to take photo of a mouth from the library and bone it to make the lips move. The result made the image warp because it wasn't split up into layered pieces but it worked and you could add lipsync. (I want the cheap look of the warped photo.)
Can anyone explain how you that was done? It was simple, but when I placed two bones over the lips it just moved the entire image. What have I missed?
Many Thanks.
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It's on page 84 of the 6.1 Pro manual, and it involves the following:
* Four bones which form a "frame" around the image, to keep most of it from moving. They do not have parents.
* One bone for the bottom-right lip that does all the work. Its parent is the closest frame-bone, it has angle constraints for "fully open mouth" and "mostly closed mouth," and it uses the Script > Sound > Bone Audio Wiggle feature.
* Three more bones around the mouth -- bottom-left lip, upper-right lip, upper-left lip -- which have the bottom-right lip bone assigned as their control bone. So when that one bone wiggles, they all wiggle in a corresponding way.
Cheers,
Muffy.
* Four bones which form a "frame" around the image, to keep most of it from moving. They do not have parents.
* One bone for the bottom-right lip that does all the work. Its parent is the closest frame-bone, it has angle constraints for "fully open mouth" and "mostly closed mouth," and it uses the Script > Sound > Bone Audio Wiggle feature.
* Three more bones around the mouth -- bottom-left lip, upper-right lip, upper-left lip -- which have the bottom-right lip bone assigned as their control bone. So when that one bone wiggles, they all wiggle in a corresponding way.
Cheers,
Muffy.
Many Thanks Muffy. Since I only tested Pro and bought Debut 5 at the time it explains why I couldn't find the tutorial. Debut doesn't have custom scripting does it. Well, guess I'll have to consider upgrading to Pro when I can afford it.muffysb wrote:It's on page 84 of the 6.1 Pro manual, and it involves the following...
I'll play around with what you explained and see how far I can get in Debut...
nibl