Morphing a mouth

[Jeanny]

Morphing a mouth

It will take me a while to put this tutorial together but meanwhile you may want to check out an
Excellent morphing tutorial by Andrew Heyworth that comes with C3D.
It can be found by clicking Help in your computer's top most grey tool bar
then Cheetah 3D Help in it's drop down
then Character Animation (Online).
The part about morphing is toward the last part of the video.

Although Andrew shows how to Morph Bones one can also morph Polygons, Edges and Points using the same principle.

My Best
Jeanny

 

[uncle808us]

It will take me a while to put this tutorial together but meanwhile you may want to check out an
Excellent morphing tutorial by Andrew Heyworth that comes with C3D.
It can be found by clicking Help in your computer's top most grey tool bar
then Cheetah 3D Help in it's drop down
then Character Animation (Online).
The part about morphing is toward the last part of the video.

Although Andrew shows how to Morph Bones one can also morph Polygons, Edges and Points using the same principle.

My Best
Jeanny

Thank you I gave that a look, now I must find out if morphs export via FBX.
If anyone know how this is done please enlighten me. Thanks in advance. and Thanks to Jeanny for her help.

 

[Jeanny]

Thanks to Uncle808us for the use of one of his various mouth tests. I used it for this tut.
He displays some fine finished objects in his web site & Blog.

Tuts aren't my forte and this tut was quickly put together. I hope its will help some of you.
I tried to describe the basics of how to set up a Morph using edges to animate an object.

You are very welcome to ask any and as many questions as you need.
I didn't go into all the elementary aspects involved so If you are in doubt
as to how to achieve any part of this tut please ask.

My Best
Jeanny

 

[uncle808us]

Thank you I went thru it step by step. And got a nice morph.
The Tutorial was clear and easy to understand. Good work. Hope to see more tuts from you. Thanks so much for taking the time and putting forth the effort.:icon_thumbup: :icon_thumbup: :icon_thumbup:

 

[Jeanny]

Thank you Uncle808us!
Your encouragement sure is uplifting.

My Best
Jeanny

 

[Jeanny]

I just added:
1 A folder with the .jas file and uncle808us' matt,
2 A .gif of the animation
3 A .png screen shot of the mouth with the matt applied.

I think he did a nice job of UV Mapping the matt to the mouth & teeth.
You may want to check out how he did it.

Hope these are an additional help.

My Best Regards
Jeanny