Hi Max, Thanks for the answer...a couple of minutes ago I was scrolling thru Paul Smith tutorial anb I watched exactly what your image shows, which is very usefull :)
Actually I'm trying a workaround on my previous discussion here on the mailing list ( Lipsync from Facerobot - get anim values ) The suuggestion by Luc-Eric is exactly what I'm looking for, but not being able to script is a hige problem for me :) The description above is the workaround for me, means that I extracted all the phonemes as single meshes from the main mesh. Since during the lipsync the phonemes value goes from 0 to 1 I'm trying to set the base mesh point position to be my "0" value and each phoneme mesh point position to be my "1" value. During the animation I have all those points position which corresponds to my shapes, so I have a 100% match when the phoneme is spoken ( obviously with a blend between each phoneme when spoken ). What I find difficult is how to convert all those 3d vectors from the base mesh points position to be my "0", and ( for example ) the phoneme "ah" points position to be my "1" value, so that at each frame I have a blend value for every phoneme, so that I can drive the shapes which I previously created. Hope its clear 2014-12-03 13:39 GMT+01:00 Max Crow <[email protected]>: > Hi Nicolas, > > get the point position, add it to the shape position then linear > interpolate from the original point position and you have an ICE shape > manager. Very cool and useful. > > Hope this helps. > Max > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/orxwfdphyl6x75y/Shape%20Manager%20in%20ICE.jpg?dl=0 > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Nicolas Esposito <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having some difficulties with comparing two shapes using point >> position...let me explain. >> >> Basically I have the base mesh and I created a couple of blend shapes via >> the shape manager. >> The shape are animated and driven externally. >> >> I'm not so good with ICE and I may be saying bs, so bare with me :) >> What I would like to do is to get the original mesh point position ( so >> an array of point position ) and compare those to all the blend shapes I >> have. >> By doing this I will have an array of values which indicate the >> difference between them ( base mesh compared with first blend shape, base >> mesh compared to second blend shape, and so on ); I would like to reduce >> that list to a single value in order to output a value from 0 to 1 so that: >> Base mesh point position: value is 0 >> First Blend Shape point position: value is 1 >> >> Basically ( if possible! ) I would like to check when the base shape >> point position are matching ( or how close they are to ) the first Blend >> Shape, exactly how the shape manager shape values are displayed when keyed >> manually. >> The main point is to have the blend shape value ( again, 0 is the base >> mesh, 1 is the value when the first blend shape is match ) for each frame >> using the point position as my source. >> >> Doable? I'm having context issues using point position and I don't know >> how I could transform the list of arrays into a single value in order to >> output and rescale that value to be 0 ( for the base mesh ) and 1 ( for the >> first blend shape ) >> >> Any help will be appreciated >> >> Cheers >> >> Nicolas >> > >
