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August 14, 2023

Compute head movement from speech function in 23.0 after (2024 not fixed either)

  • August 14, 2023
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This problem has been bothering me since version 23.0, the video is version 23.6.

When I imported the mp3 and used the Compute head movement from speeche function, the character moved like this.

and adjusting the face's Pose-to-Pose Movement parameter doesn't smooth out the movement.
How to set it to smooth the movement?

10 replies

oksamurai
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 27, 2024

Unfortunately yes, I haven't heard of any progress on this bug. I'm really sorry; I know it's frustrating to have something working and become a critical part of your workflow and then break like this. My limited understanding is that the bug is more complex than it may seem on the surface, but I don't know the specifics under the hood.

 

The workaround I would recommend would be what we show in the recent Express Animation tutorial. Basically, your triggered Replays become your different poses and you swap between them to achieve the pose-to-pose look. If you only wanted the head you could make a set of Face-only replays and then do the other things like arms and lip sync separately. The blend handles between poses would equate to the duration / smoothness of the transition between poses. This system is essentially what we do when creating Express characters with "automatic" animation. I know it's not the same, as pose-to-pose just worked in the background without needing this more manual setup, but it should ultimately achieve a similar effect.

 

Again, I'm sorry this bug has lingered for over a year without a clear fix. If anything changes I will udpate this thread, but my recommendation for the forseeable future would be to explore different workflows.

axelj5676904
Participating Frequently
August 27, 2024

An update was installed today and the bug is still there. This massive error has not been fixed for well over a year or two.

Does anyone know how I can still get the old version V22? This feature worked without any problems in V22. I have given up hope that the bug will be fixed, @oksamurai 

Participant
May 24, 2024

still not fixed still not  fixed!

Participant
April 17, 2024

Any updates on this? It's making Character Animator basically unuable for my needs.

axelj5676904
Participating Frequently
December 12, 2023

Any update?

oksamurai
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 26, 2023

Thanks for the bug - I noticed this recently too. We're looking into it.

Inspiring
October 26, 2023

Could you do something to help? @oksamurai 

axelj5676904
Participating Frequently
October 20, 2023

Got that problem too. Also in version 24.0

Inspiring
August 15, 2023

Finally, I hopefully this will be fixed in the next version. Thank you.

Inspiring
August 14, 2023

I moved this post to the Bugs forum. I also just noticed this issue yesterday.