MB Character face bug?

#1

I’m having an issue that is driving me nuts… Motionbuilder 2012… I’m hoping someone might have an answer or workaround… or confirm whether it is a bug or not

I add custom expressions in character face and configure them based on the morphs of the character… I use these with constraints to do things like automatic blinking, custom voice mapping, etc…

I get them all setup, everything works fine… save the file… exit the program or open a new file… come back to the one that I just finished doing all this work on and…

the definitions of ALL the expressions are gone… AAARRGGHH… have to do it all over again. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance for your help

#2

I assume you have everything clicked as on in the save dialogue? Other than that I have no idea what the problem could be.

#3

Thanks for responding Erik…

I checked just to make sure…(I’ve done bonehead stuff like that before) yep, everything is clicked… Next I’m going to try to recreate the file to see if it still does the same thing…

#4

Are you running the most updated service pack for 2012? There are unfortunately some really bad bugs in 2012, some got fixed with the service pack release but I can’t remember if that one was or not.

Brad

#5

Hi Brad

Hmm… I might not be at the latest and greatest… let me check that… Odd though, it is not happening on every character… so I decided yesterday to test several characters… out of 4, 2 exhibited the issue… 2 didn’t.

What I’m doing is experimenting with digital puppetry… using characters from DAZ studio, exported out as fbx files… all these characters are by the same maker… the 2 that are having an issue are from the same batch of characters, so I’m wondering if it is not an issue with the characters themselves.

I am downloading sp2, and I’ll see if this changes anything.

Thanks for the help!

Bryan

#6

Well…problem solved

Applied SP2, opened my file… re-input the parameters… saved, exited MB… opened file, still the same issue… ugh…

re-entered parameters, saved as different file… exit MB, open file… still happening. AAA!

Went back to the original app… re-exported character… opened it again in MB, applied character face… expressions, put in values… saved and exited…

opened file… and it works! (at least so far)… I still wonder why it was working on some characters and not others though

Thanks for all the help

Bryan

#7

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