snekkis opened this issue on Jan 16, 2004 ยท 31 posts
_Audrey posted Fri, 16 January 2004 at 10:09 PM
Passing this on from you-know-who: There's a way to easily convert any figure that meets certain requirements to Mimic-compliancy. This can be done within Poser. 1) there must be a modicum of facial positioning morphs. Otherwise, you have to make them. But if you have things like Open Smile and Frown and/or Roar available, you're usually good to go. The more facial position morphs the non-mimic compliant figure already has, the better. Of course, you can always create custom morphs, but that takes more work and can only be done within Poser by using magnets. 2) The mouth should be part of the Head. For instance, most dragons and some animals have a seperate 'jaw' body part, and possibly even a posable tongue. These will not work. There are ways to make them, but well beyond the scope of what I'm going to explain. Okay, now for how: a) Load up the figure. b) for each of the morphs in this list: OpenLips, Mouth O, Mouth F, Mouth M, Tongue T, Tongue L, LBrowUp, RBrowUp, Blink Left, Blink Right 1) Adjust the dials on the available morphs so that you create the expression thus described. Look in a mirror and make the sound for the phonemes, if you need to. If you have to, you can even tweak what you get with a magnet. As a for instance, let's say we wanted to make the P4 lion Mimic-compliant... For OpenLips, I actually adjust the mouth closed a little, to look like a human with OpenLips applied. For Mouth O, I use Mouth Open, Mouth Closed, and Snarl in combination. For Mouth F, I use Mouth Closed and Snarl in combination. For Mouth M, I use Mouth Closed and then Mouth Snarl at a negative value. For Tongue T, I use Mouth Open at a negative value, and then Snarl. I use a similar combination to that above for Tongue L, too. If you have P5, you can split Snarl. Otherwise, you need a magnet to add RBrowUp and LBrowUp. Or you can do without them, as your other morphs contain enough eyebrow movement anyway. Blink, unless you want to try and magnet it, you're SOL on, but Mimic (1, anyway) doesn't put enough blinks in anyway, so you might not even notice. 2) When you'e gotten a face that looks like it's saying 'F' or 'M' or 'L' or whichever one you're working on, spawn a morph target. Use the exact name you see up above there. 3) go on to the next one. c)Save your now Mimic-compliant figure. d) Record some voice acting, run the parts through Mimic, load up the Mil Girl and your now talking Lion, and add a nice dress and do the scene where Jill first meets Aslan in The Silver Chair.