I thought this might help with simple animations of, say, mouths. So, I added Suzanne to see what could be achieved.
If keying a timeline, it appears fine. But to lip sync a whole sequence, that would be messy. So I thought maybe individual mesh key frames, for each mouth shape, captured as individual actions. I am hoping then to set up to animate through action selections.
Therefore, I am trying to save actions comprising individual mesh sculpts (assigned to AI, E, etc, FV, L, BMP, yadda),
I am essentially creating a new action for each sculpted mesh, with a single key frame. Furthermore, I have the frame set to "1" for each key frame capture.
I find, all actions end up with the same mesh layout?
That is, for example, I'll sculpt a "rest"mesh for the resting mouth, then save that as an action called "rest", I then sculpt an "AI" mesh, save that as an action "AI". If I then reassign "rest" the "AI" sculpt remains. If I then sculpt an "E" mesh, "rest" and "AI" mesh actions present as "E" mesh.
I assume this has something to do with the internals of the key frame and the way it's captured? It isn't intuitive?
Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to use the add-in this way?
I thought this might help with simple animations of, say, mouths. So, I added Suzanne to see what could be achieved.
If keying a timeline, it appears fine. But to lip sync a whole sequence, that would be messy. So I thought maybe individual mesh key frames, for each mouth shape, captured as individual actions. I am hoping then to set up to animate through action selections.
Therefore, I am trying to save actions comprising individual mesh sculpts (assigned to AI, E, etc, FV, L, BMP, yadda),
I am essentially creating a new action for each sculpted mesh, with a single key frame. Furthermore, I have the frame set to "1" for each key frame capture.
I find, all actions end up with the same mesh layout?
That is, for example, I'll sculpt a "rest"mesh for the resting mouth, then save that as an action called "rest", I then sculpt an "AI" mesh, save that as an action "AI". If I then reassign "rest" the "AI" sculpt remains. If I then sculpt an "E" mesh, "rest" and "AI" mesh actions present as "E" mesh.
I assume this has something to do with the internals of the key frame and the way it's captured? It isn't intuitive?
Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to use the add-in this way?
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