Plugins Life

[MacGruber]

Btw, there is one other problem when not using the characters head audio... because the Plugin Realtime Lipsync only works when the Audio is played through the characters head audio source. So I will go with your version vamurai!

Note that Life also supports using your own custom audio. Although its a lot of work to add all the meta data needed for the plugins animations, just basically need to tell the plugin exactly where in the audio the character should start breathing in, breathing out, whether breathing through nose or mouth, how deep the breath is, etc. Providing this info for your custom orgasm would make sure you got perfect animation transitions, controlling this from Timeline would probably result in some glitches.

Custom Audio for Life 7 - Guides -

This tutorial gives you an introduction on how to add custom breathing audio and matching animation data to the Life#Breathing plugin. Adding audio to the plugin is a bit complex and most importantly, very time-consuming. This is because we want...

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[vamurai]

Note that Life also supports using your own custom audio. Although its a lot of work to add all the meta data needed for the plugins animations, just basically need to tell the plugin exactly where in the audio the character should start breathing in, breathing out, whether breathing through nose or mouth, how deep the breath is, etc. Providing this info for your custom orgasm would make sure you got perfect animation transitions, controlling this from Timeline would probably result in some glitches.

Custom Audio for Life 7 - Guides -

This tutorial gives you an introduction on how to add custom breathing audio and matching animation data to the Life#Breathing plugin. Adding audio to the plugin is a bit complex and most importantly, very time-consuming. This is because we want...

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I built a custom audio package, once upon a time. It was indeed A LOT of work. In the end, my results were mediocre even after meticulous, hand-chosen parameters using audacity for its spectrum analyzer and ability to clean up the original source audio. It's a project I want to revisit someday, but man was it a chore.

I did, once upon a time, use MacGruber's "Random sound" from the LogicBricks plugin to randomly generate penetration audio in one of my scenes. I've always wanted to try that with Realtime Lipsync and see how close I could get to replicating what Life does. Unfortunately, you'd lose the breathing animation tie-in to the audio, so I still don't think it would be very clean.

 

[cropbehel]

MacGruber submitted a new resource:

Life - A collection of plugins intended to essentially "awake" a character, let him/her come to life.



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thx broooooo goooooo breath ahhhhhh

 

[Labrombula]

Hello!
I really like your breathing plugin, but I've run into one problem: the breathing rate is too low for a dog. The frequency slider is turned to the full, the voice tone too, the randomizer is at a minimum, but still it is very far from the desired frequency. Can you make adjustments for a future version?

 

[MacGruber]

@Labrombula That seems to be a weird request. There is no way to tweak the audio beyond the pitch setting. However, Life supports custom audio files. So, if you have audio files of a dog breathing, you could make an AudioBundle and provide the needed meta data for timings and other info. There is a tutorial on what needs to be done. Be aware though, importing custom audio is a LOT of work.

Custom Audio for Life 7 - Guides -

This tutorial gives you an introduction on how to add custom breathing audio and matching animation data to the Life#Breathing plugin. Adding audio to the plugin is a bit complex and most importantly, very time-consuming. This is because we want...

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[Labrombula]

to tweak the audio

Hi, thanks for the reply.
I'm not talking about audio at all, I set the pitch to the maximum, only to shorten the morph)

But even this is not enough to simulate dog breathing. Is it possible to extend the scale: Intensity?

 

[MacGruber]

I'm not talking about audio at all, I set the pitch to the maximum, only to shorten the morph)

The whole point of Life is to having matching animation for given sound files. Not the other way around! If you just want to drive some morphs, why do you need a complex monster plugin like Life to do it? Even FloatRandomizer plugin or LogicBricks-ValueUpDown brick or something like that will do the trick.

 

[bakcasa]

I've got a question about the interaction of the Gaze plugin and the included animations of a scene. I've set it up to auto-load Gaze on all my characters, but usually when I play the scene the head won't follow my camera anymore. How do I fix that?

 

[MacGruber]

I've got a question about the interaction of the Gaze plugin and the included animations of a scene. I've set it up to auto-load Gaze on all my characters, but usually when I play the scene the head won't follow my camera anymore. How do I fix that?

There can only be one thing controlling Head rotation. Whoever happens to update last in the frame wins, but that's basically random and not really in your control. If you have for example Timeline animation for the Head, make sure it does only update position, not rotation. Timeline has a checkbox for that. If a scene uses IdlePoser instead, that has a similar option.

Automatically adding animation plugins is usually a bad idea, just as automatically adding post-effects. That kind of stuff should be part of a scene, as it might break things. Which is what you noticed here.

 

[bakcasa]

There can only be one thing controlling Head rotation. Whoever happens to update last in the frame wins, but that's basically random and not really in your control. If you have for example Timeline animation for the Head, make sure it does only update position, not rotation. Timeline has a checkbox for that. If a scene uses IdlePoser instead, that has a similar option.

Automatically adding animation plugins is usually a bad idea, just as automatically adding post-effects. That kind of stuff should be part of a scene, as it might break things. Which is what you noticed here.

I see, thanks for clearing that up! I suppose there's no way to just automatically override the head movements with Gaze when loading the scene/plugin?

 

[MacGruber]

I see, thanks for clearing that up! I suppose there's no way to just automatically override the head movements with Gaze when loading the scene/plugin?

As I just said, automatically loading plugins like this is a bad idea. So, possible...everything is possible....just a bad idea that might break other peoples scenes.