Facial expressions - clusters or blend shapes?

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# 1 12-09-2007 , 02:21 PM

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Facial expressions - clusters or blend shapes?

HI,

clusters for opening and closing the eyes would be best I think, but not sure about others (smile, frown, growl, scared etc).

Looking over differing tutorials just now, just wondered what you folks thought.

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# 2 12-09-2007 , 02:23 PM

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Blend shapes all the way for me.

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# 3 12-09-2007 , 02:26 PM

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Was thinking the same thing, except for the eyes. Do you know gster, is it necessary to copy your whole mesh each time for each expression? Given the I just want to do the face just now.

cheers,

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# 4 12-09-2007 , 02:29 PM

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If I was just doing blendshapes on the head then it would be more efficient to separate the head and duplicate that just for the blendshapes.

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# 5 12-09-2007 , 02:31 PM

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thanks jsprogg,

but when you combine the head back onto the body, I don't think it will recognize the blends anymore, since it would be a different mesh - is there a workaround?

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# 6 12-09-2007 , 02:34 PM

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don't combine it ,group the body and head together .

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# 7 12-09-2007 , 02:50 PM

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Does it loose the shapes?

I thought if you sepperated the head form the body then made the different bits re attached it kept them, just as long as the vertex order is the same???

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# 8 12-09-2007 , 02:53 PM

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Not looked at this but it looks just what your after

https://www.digitaltutors.com/chit_ch...ead.php?t=5333

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# 9 12-09-2007 , 03:48 PM

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Its ok to make your blend shapes on your detached head then reattach it, the blends will be remembered, well at least from my experience they do.

hope this helps

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