3ds Max Content for Facial Animation, possible workaround?

brentrossen · Post by **brentrossen** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:47 pm

To start, I must say, oFusion is amazing, really professional level work. I just wish there was some way to do facial animation using that exporter. I've read that pose/morph export for facial animation is not supported in either the 3ds Max exporter or the oFusion exporter. The Problem: I need to do facial animation in my research, all my content is in 3ds max, and I'd really like to use OGRE as the front end.

What I'm wondering is, has anyone had any success with a workaround?

Any suggestions for converting from Max to Blender, including materials, and morph targets? Or possibly export the mesh/materials from max using oFusion, then use the Blender .mesh importer on multiple face .mesh files, and export said faces as target poses?

Any suggestions or potential pitfalls would be greatly appreciated. Even a, "you can't do that", would save me a significant amount of time. Also, if someone wants to point me in the right direction, I'd be happy to try my hand at adding to the max exporter.

Post by **sinbad** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:50 am

I think the answer is very likely to be 'you can't do that', at least without extending the exporter.

Now that I have a copy of 3DS, it's on my TODO list, but this isn't going to help you in the short term (my TODO is always bursting

).

FireSpy · Post by **FireSpy** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:01 pm

I am about to hit the same problem, and I know of other people who chose not to use Ogre becuse of this. The pose stuff/face demo is a realy good selling point, but the lack of a Max solution is a real problem.

Lioric · Post by **Lioric** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:52 pm

The next update of oFusion, after the newest update (hope in a few days) is Dagon based and includes Morph/Pose support

brentrossen · Post by **brentrossen** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:17 pm

That's some of the best news I've heard Lioric! I gotta say, you just made my day.

Hope I didn't misunderstand, you mean there may be morph/pose support in oFusion in a few days?

Post by **BlahBlahBlah** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:06 pm

Wow. This is fantastic! I was looking into Facial Animation a few weeks ago - but was disapointed when learning there was no way to do this in Max.

FireSpy · Post by **FireSpy** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:07 pm

When can I get my hands on a pose version of oFusion? Is there any way to beta this?

Post by **jacmoe** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:51 pm

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