It is documented to take an argument, namely
the file name of an ".fc2" file.

But I can't find a file with type ".fc2" anywhere???

I find a lot of ".fcz" files, which seems like what
the Scene.LoadLibraryFace() method should take,
but when I:

poser.Scene.LoadLibraryFace("RuntimelibrariesFaceP4
PhonemesAre.fcz")

Results in: SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm doing this to a P4 woman's head, that in the GUI,
allows setting the P4 Phoneme -- "Are" .

When I search the CuriousLabs website there are no hits for "fcz"
and only a few for "fc2" in license agreements where file types
are mentioned, but again, the actual file type seems to be fcz, no fc2.

How can I load these facial expressions using Python?

I'm trying to script the render and save of the full set
of phoneme expressions (for any particular pose), which should be
very easy, except this method (and documentation) seems
to have problems.

(..or is there something fundamentally wrong with my Python syntax?)

Tom

.fcz is a compressed face file. You can unzip them using Winzip to get .fc2 files.

Thanks, That is helping. :) Plus my syntax has trouble. Thanks again.

I can see one basic problem: the backslashes
in your filenames. You need to write those
as double backslashes in order for Python to
read them properly.

Also, the Scene is a function, so it needs
parentheses. It's generally easier, and
sort of standard, to get a simple variable
for Scene first:

scene=poser.Scene()
scene.LoadLibraryFace("RuntimelibrariesFaceP4
PhonemesAre.fcz")

Edit: The compression isn't the trouble. LoadLibraryFace will load the FCZ files just fine. (I just checked this to be sure!)

Message edited on: 04/07/2005 11:52