odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 ยท 13933 posts
odf posted Tue, 01 February 2011 at 5:30 PM
No bugs? That sounds almost too good to be true.
Good point about those text files. I'll have a go at making them more Windows-compatible.
I think the "cheek balloon" morph could be useful, if only for special occasions. But I've already left out some morphs that I think would be even more useful, namely ones that simply pull the whole mouth to the left or right, and also JCMs for other movements of the jaw. Hopefully one day, someone - possibly me - will find the time to add them, either in an extension package or as part of a new and improved Antonia.
As for the "wider" morph: the "smile" is exactly that, actually. It would make sense to call it "wider" because all it really does is pull the corners of the mouth apart. Because of the way those muscles work, the mouth gets pulled up at the same time, and the muscles and cheeks are influenced as well. But it's not really a smile. It doesn't do anything with the eyes. If you combine that morph with a tiny bit of "mouth open" and maybe some of the lip morphs, you can make your characters say "eeh" and such.
In order to get a proper smile, one has to add a squint and also pull the lower lids upward (the reason the squint does not include the latter is that the lower lids are also influenced by the eyeballs movements, so they need a separate morph).
I'm debating whether to rename that morph to "wide" and add a "smile" control that would do some default whole-face smile. But I'm a bit afraid that then a lot of people would just use that canned smile everywhere instead of bothering to learn how the system works.
Anyway, at some point I'd like to make some kind of control prop for Antonia's expressions, where one would be able to just pull some handles around and see the various parts of her face follow. A little bit like MorphPutty or whatever it was called, but more specialised and a bit more abstracted, maybe with a stylized face painted on the prop or something like that.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.