cloneman opened this issue on Mar 24, 2003 ยท 16 posts
Redfern posted Mon, 24 March 2003 at 2:40 PM
Mimic runs equally few in Poser 5 depending upon the figures you use. It was designed with Posette and Dork in mind, but now that DAZ has provided "eye blink" updates for its various premiere figures, Mimic works quite well for them. Keep in mind DAZ is soon to release Mimic version 2 with added features. What those will be, DAZ hasn't revealed. I suspect it will be tailored for the Mil' figures. However, any figure having at least the morph dial "OpenLips" associated with the head can run Mimic, though the results are a littel something like the mechanistic "jawing" of a puppet. However if a figure has dials like "Mouth T" and other phonemes, the now natural the speech appears. Mimic will create random eye blinks, brow wriggles and head nods for extra "livelyness." Wait just a little bit and Little Dragon will provide a list of exaqmples using such figures as Michael right down to the House Mouse. I bought mine from the original developers, LIPSinc, for 200 hundred dollars and I didn't feel cheated. DAZ, now owning everything about it, sells it for less than 80. Now that's a "steal!" How do you program it? You literally just need to import a good ol' .WAV file with clean audio. You export a .PZ2 (pose) file from the plug-in and apply it to a charcter. When you create an animation, the figure will open and close its lips in sync with the soundtrack. It's literally THAT simple! Sincerely, Bill
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