Transfer character face to different model...

#1

Hi there,

Does anyone know how to save out some facial expressions, so that I can reuse them on all my characters? Just like poses with a control rig.

I can apply the face bones as a character extension and make the poses, butt I can’t make them work by saving them out and use them in on another character with the same extensions…(same naming convension and all…)

#2

the extentions are kind of picky when you save them out, did anything change . diffrent prefix for the name, diffrent parent object? are are these just rig bones that are driving another set of joints?

first make sure that the extenstion is working with the character and that its name is the same… the problem is that poses can loose what your looking for some times…

also if your not on a patched version of 7.5 motionbuilder, saving poses out that had extentions in the pose would not work, they came back in but would not apply correctly.

#3

i’m using the standart version of 7.5, so that might be the problem…thanks

#4

I’ve tried it in 7.5 ext. 1…still not working.

I have a simple rig created in Maya (just the joints, no constraints etc…) all in one hierachy. Jawjoint, browsjoint etc. parented to the headjoint.

Is it because the character extensions are not a part of the control rig? Works fine with poses for the hands. Is there another way to do it, so that I don’t need to create all the standart facial expressions for every new character I make?

#5

Does it only work in MB 7.5 extesion 2???

When I paste a pose the hole rig moves a bit, but doesn’t go into the pose.

#6

Does anyone know if it only works in Motionbuilder 7.5 extension 2?

#7

I just tried, it worked.
What I did was the following: I created character extension in 2 files (A and B) with different characters (A and B) and created a pose in one of them (A). I renamed the characters and Extensions so that the names were the same. Then merged this pose to the other file and pasted it to extension (in B). It assumed the same translation/rotation as the first one (as in A). It did not suit the B character, since he is bigger then A character… But it worked somehow, as the pose was pasted successfully.
Does it help?

#8

Wich version of MB are you running?

#9

MB 7.5 extension 2

#10

funny i am using standard as well and ive never had any problems.

#11

nevermind ive just never used extensions much. I have the same problem… =(. Where do i get extension 2?

#12

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