MetaHumans - Combined blend shape
Hi,
In our company we are trying to use MetaHumans to improve our current DigitalHuman we are using, and we are trying to get some custom blend shapes to use with speech (Phoneme expressions). The issue I am facing right now is that I cannot figure out how to create said combined blend shape (Maya), since every slider is firmly locked to the facial/body rig (to my understanding).
Essentially, left side is neutral MetaHuman, on the right is the expression I created that would represent the phoneme expression for "U" like "you" "yours" etc.
That expression itself is achieved my using the facial slider which uses aproximately 16 blend shapes. We need to combine these blend shapes into a single blend shape that we could reference in the audio so that facial expression would be used whenever we call for the U phoneme.
If anybody could point me in the right direction or tell me what I am doing wrong, I would shower you wish praise, getting slightly anxious now
Have a great day and thank you for reading!
Best regards
Daniel
WeBoard
In our company we are trying to use MetaHumans to improve our current DigitalHuman we are using, and we are trying to get some custom blend shapes to use with speech (Phoneme expressions). The issue I am facing right now is that I cannot figure out how to create said combined blend shape (Maya), since every slider is firmly locked to the facial/body rig (to my understanding).
Essentially, left side is neutral MetaHuman, on the right is the expression I created that would represent the phoneme expression for "U" like "you" "yours" etc.
That expression itself is achieved my using the facial slider which uses aproximately 16 blend shapes. We need to combine these blend shapes into a single blend shape that we could reference in the audio so that facial expression would be used whenever we call for the U phoneme.
If anybody could point me in the right direction or tell me what I am doing wrong, I would shower you wish praise, getting slightly anxious now
Have a great day and thank you for reading!
Best regards
Daniel
WeBoard
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Edit : Didnt mean to sound so snarky, thanks a lot for trying, sorry, was a bit down from stress :X
The hairs are grooms, only higher LOD levels switch to hair cards / hair mesh.
I managed to create the blend shape, but sadly Maya just breaks the joints and bones and renames them for some reason and its almost impossible to set up an efficient workflow.
For curious people, import the metahuman from Quixel, set the expression you need as a blend shape, copy only the geometry to the side, select the copied geometry than select the geometry of the imported metahuman and create blend shape. rinse and repeat for other expressions.