A stable, foolproof scene where you can mix the built-in expression poses for the face, create emotions for any of your custom characters, and save them with the (not included) Morph Merge and Split plugin. ALSO includes SubScene presets - just add a SubScene to your own scene, go to this .Var, load the preset, and it's there.
V2: Now with Visemes menu!
Empowering creators through ease-of-use and quality-of-life
Extremely Recommended Resource: Morph Merge and Split (allows you to save the emotion expressions you will make)
"A scene so dependable a rat sewed to a pigeon (PigeonRat (tm)) could use it."
-Burt Sampson, Emotion Creator User
This resource gives you a SubScene preset you can load into any scene, which will generate the menu shown in the above screenshot. The poses will be applied to "Person," so name your character accordingly. But I recommend simply using it in the completely stable and goof-proof demo scene I included, using techniques from my scene creation guide. You can use the whole scene without leaving Play Mode, as everything's pretty much unbreakable, and you only need to enter edit mode to add Morph Merge and Split to your Person and save your emotion expression.
The Emotion Creator uses only the built-in expression pose morphs for the face. I also omitted ones I didn't feel were helpful, and I also omitted L/R morphs in most cases. There are 65 morphs in all, logically arranged in an easy to use menu, with a Reset All button at the top! What could be better?
This is also a great example scene for any aspiring creator on how to make a dependable and stable scene that the user can't ruin with an errant click. Save your players' time and they will be forever grateful to you.
Intended uses will be listed and explained below.
Suggested use:
Download Morph Merge and Split. Load the demo scene for Emotion Creator. (If you are loading a SubScene into your own scene, load Emotion Creator, not the Emotion Creator UI Container- that's just a component you need). Add the plugin Morph Merge and Split to your Person. Mix your emotions using the sliders, and reset them with the button at the top if need be. Save your mixed emotion pose morph with Morph Merge and Split. When you do so, disable auto-behaviors, but do not disable pose morphs.
(I recommend you do not split head and body, and do not save a genital morph. But your way to save your poses and morphs is up to you).
Then save your morph with your chosen name, and chosen category. Example Morph Name: "Help I'm pooping," Example Category: "_MyFavoritePoopingExpressions." ? ? ?
Super-Pro VaM Creator Move: Make custom tailored emotions for all your favorite characters, save them in their own category, then use them as geometry keyframes in Timeline to add emotion to all of your animations and scenes easily, and without hassle!! What could be easier?
(Very lastly, for the extra-technical VaM creator, if you want it to be a Pose morph, find it in VaMX/custom/atom/person/morphs/[female/male], edit the .Vmi file, and set "isPoseControl" : "true" on line 9.)
FEATURES:
- Well-programmed expression pose slider menu with 65 built-in expression morphs
- Logical organization, VaM's emotions on left, key helpful morphs on top, and other facial adjustment morphs on right
- Will fit right around your Person if they're at 0,0,0
- You can't fuck up and drag the slider objects around like a fucking jackass at a shit carnival because I made the scene well
- You can't fuck up and drag the wood panel floor around like a fucking jackass at a shit carnival because I made the scene well
- You can't accidentally drag the lights around like a fucking jackass at a shit carnival and ruin your perception of your model when all you're trying to do is make a fucking morph, without un-hiding them via a menu on the right I put in, because I'm not a fucking jackass at a shit carnival and you shouldn't have to drink my dog piss just to use my resources
- Loads with a Ren Kayla model with default morphs and tweaked skin mats to catch shadow so you can see your expression well, and because everyone just seems to like Ren Kayla
- You can load your own appearance in as well
- Comes with a simple AV biorig pose on the model, with every body part that's key already interactable in play mode. No bullshit edit mode for you! It's all there in play mode, until you want to save your expression!
- Lights bound to Y-axis rails until you want to toggle that off, on the right
- You can't break it, so you'll save time
- You can't break it, so you'll save time
- Reset Button conveniently located away from the main UI so your work doesn't get destroyed by the Resource Creator's gratuitous lack of foresight and pure contempt for user experience
More Suggested Use:
- It's a great way to figure out how you have to adjust the teeth on your new character model. "Oh wow, 90% of facial morphs clip her teeth through her face. I guess it's time to scale down her bottom teeth and move them back in her head."
- No more fiddling clumsily through 7 different menus when customing your expression morphs- tons of adjusts are right in front of your eyes. Only use the VaM menu for the morphs you want, say Custom Expressions or Tongue Morphs, then correct them with my menu.
- "But I don't like the VaM built-in emotion morphs! They just make her all monkey-ish!" Well, that might be true, but I gave you a menu so you can tweak your favorite creator's expression morphs to fit your custom model very easily!
Example:
"Ok, I want some expression morphs, but on my model, they look like this! Oh no!"
"Ok, it's immediately obvious I need to scale and adjust her teeth with the built-in teeth morphs. I'll go into my menu and do that now. It takes me 15 seconds. Cool! I might never have to do that ever again for this model!"
"It's still kind of jacked up, but, ok, I'll use this menu to adjust the lips and mouth and etc., it only takes me about 15 seconds:"
"Ok, I scaled back the original emotions, then added these ones from my favorite Creator, etc. etc."
You get the picture? Easy.
Happy creating, and as always, if you like and appreciate this resource, please leave me a rating or review. It's always appreciated. ?
V2: Now with Visemes menu!
Empowering creators through ease-of-use and quality-of-life
Extremely Recommended Resource: Morph Merge and Split (allows you to save the emotion expressions you will make)
"A scene so dependable a rat sewed to a pigeon (PigeonRat (tm)) could use it."
-Burt Sampson, Emotion Creator User
This resource gives you a SubScene preset you can load into any scene, which will generate the menu shown in the above screenshot. The poses will be applied to "Person," so name your character accordingly. But I recommend simply using it in the completely stable and goof-proof demo scene I included, using techniques from my scene creation guide. You can use the whole scene without leaving Play Mode, as everything's pretty much unbreakable, and you only need to enter edit mode to add Morph Merge and Split to your Person and save your emotion expression.
The Emotion Creator uses only the built-in expression pose morphs for the face. I also omitted ones I didn't feel were helpful, and I also omitted L/R morphs in most cases. There are 65 morphs in all, logically arranged in an easy to use menu, with a Reset All button at the top! What could be better?
This is also a great example scene for any aspiring creator on how to make a dependable and stable scene that the user can't ruin with an errant click. Save your players' time and they will be forever grateful to you.
Intended uses will be listed and explained below.
Suggested use:
Download Morph Merge and Split. Load the demo scene for Emotion Creator. (If you are loading a SubScene into your own scene, load Emotion Creator, not the Emotion Creator UI Container- that's just a component you need). Add the plugin Morph Merge and Split to your Person. Mix your emotions using the sliders, and reset them with the button at the top if need be. Save your mixed emotion pose morph with Morph Merge and Split. When you do so, disable auto-behaviors, but do not disable pose morphs.
(I recommend you do not split head and body, and do not save a genital morph. But your way to save your poses and morphs is up to you).
Then save your morph with your chosen name, and chosen category. Example Morph Name: "Help I'm pooping," Example Category: "_MyFavoritePoopingExpressions." ? ? ?
Super-Pro VaM Creator Move: Make custom tailored emotions for all your favorite characters, save them in their own category, then use them as geometry keyframes in Timeline to add emotion to all of your animations and scenes easily, and without hassle!! What could be easier?
(Very lastly, for the extra-technical VaM creator, if you want it to be a Pose morph, find it in VaMX/custom/atom/person/morphs/[female/male], edit the .Vmi file, and set "isPoseControl" : "true" on line 9.)
FEATURES:
- Well-programmed expression pose slider menu with 65 built-in expression morphs
- Logical organization, VaM's emotions on left, key helpful morphs on top, and other facial adjustment morphs on right
- Will fit right around your Person if they're at 0,0,0
- You can't fuck up and drag the slider objects around like a fucking jackass at a shit carnival because I made the scene well
- You can't fuck up and drag the wood panel floor around like a fucking jackass at a shit carnival because I made the scene well
- You can't accidentally drag the lights around like a fucking jackass at a shit carnival and ruin your perception of your model when all you're trying to do is make a fucking morph, without un-hiding them via a menu on the right I put in, because I'm not a fucking jackass at a shit carnival and you shouldn't have to drink my dog piss just to use my resources
- Loads with a Ren Kayla model with default morphs and tweaked skin mats to catch shadow so you can see your expression well, and because everyone just seems to like Ren Kayla
- You can load your own appearance in as well
- Comes with a simple AV biorig pose on the model, with every body part that's key already interactable in play mode. No bullshit edit mode for you! It's all there in play mode, until you want to save your expression!
- Lights bound to Y-axis rails until you want to toggle that off, on the right
- You can't break it, so you'll save time
- You can't break it, so you'll save time
- Reset Button conveniently located away from the main UI so your work doesn't get destroyed by the Resource Creator's gratuitous lack of foresight and pure contempt for user experience
More Suggested Use:
- It's a great way to figure out how you have to adjust the teeth on your new character model. "Oh wow, 90% of facial morphs clip her teeth through her face. I guess it's time to scale down her bottom teeth and move them back in her head."
- No more fiddling clumsily through 7 different menus when customing your expression morphs- tons of adjusts are right in front of your eyes. Only use the VaM menu for the morphs you want, say Custom Expressions or Tongue Morphs, then correct them with my menu.
- "But I don't like the VaM built-in emotion morphs! They just make her all monkey-ish!" Well, that might be true, but I gave you a menu so you can tweak your favorite creator's expression morphs to fit your custom model very easily!
Example:
"Ok, I want some expression morphs, but on my model, they look like this! Oh no!"
"Ok, it's immediately obvious I need to scale and adjust her teeth with the built-in teeth morphs. I'll go into my menu and do that now. It takes me 15 seconds. Cool! I might never have to do that ever again for this model!"
"It's still kind of jacked up, but, ok, I'll use this menu to adjust the lips and mouth and etc., it only takes me about 15 seconds:"
"Ok, I scaled back the original emotions, then added these ones from my favorite Creator, etc. etc."
You get the picture? Easy.
Happy creating, and as always, if you like and appreciate this resource, please leave me a rating or review. It's always appreciated. ?
