Setting Lips Shape Data

In the MouthBase, MouthBlend and MouthMove nodes of the Facial Profile Editor, you are able to set the transformation limits of the Mouth bones and Mouth shapes. After the settings, the character can perform jaw movements in Character Creator and iClone.

  1. Make sure the character has been converted to a Humanoid character.
  2. Click the Face Profile Editor button under the Motion Pose tab in the Modify panel.

  3. Select the MouthBase, MouthBlend or MouthMove items from the left tree-view, the related sliders will be listed in the right-side pane.

  4. Adjust the character's face in Bone-based, Morph-based or Hybrid-based methods.
    • ClosedBone-based
      1. Click the Proportion button at the top of the panel.

        The Modify panel will enter the Proportion Mode.
      2. Pick the [character name]_L_Cheek bone from the Bone List panel (Shortcut: F3).
      3. Move and rotate the cheek bone to the desired limit direction in one axis.

        You can type in specific numbers in the Move and Rotate fields in the Proportion panel.

        Exit the Proportion mode by clicking the Proportion button again.
    • ClosedMorph-based
      1. Click the Edit Mesh button at the top of the panel.

        The Modify panel will enter the Edit Mesh Mode.
      2. Edit the mesh. This step ensures that the jaw bone and the mesh of the cheek will be animated synchronously.

        Click the Edit Mesh button again to exit the Edit Mesh mode.
    • ClosedHybrid-based

      You can compose the character's face with both Bone-based and Morph-based to create Hybrid-based facial expressions.

  5. Click the Quick Update button of a slider (in this case, the Mouth_Smile_L) for saving the limit data (both bone transformations and the mesh alterations).

    You can drag the enabled slider to check out the result.
  6. Repeat the step for the rest of the sliders under the MouthBase, MouthBlend, MouthMove items and set adequate limit data.
  7. Once you export the character to iClone, then its jaw can be animated via the Facial Puppeteering and Face Key panels.