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Rajae22959864g0o7
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February 2, 2022
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ALT MOUTH DISAPPEARS WHEN TRIGGERED

  • February 2, 2022
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Hey Adobe Ch Fmily! I hope you can help me with this issue that's been exhausting me for days, My alternative mouth sets (happy-sad-etc..) aren't working properly, 

everytime i trigger the happy or sad mouth set with all the visemes it just disappears, but it used to work fine before.  I had to recreate a new puppet project and when i started all over again the alt mouth sets just stopped working out of nowhere.

I am sure I'm doing something wrong.

Can someone check my puppet to see if there's anything wrong with it? Thank you very much.

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alank99101739
alank99101739
Legend
February 2, 2022

I have a suspicion, but not 100% sure. First some background information.

 

Ch tags layers automatically based on layer names. Behaviors then use the tags. You can change the tags. My suspicion is in the past you manually adjusted the tags, but when you came back to it again and reimported, you are using the default tagging again and that is causing the problem. For example, any layer with "Mouth" as a word in the name will get tagged as a mouth layer.

 

So when I see "Mouth" as a layer with "sad mouth" and "neutral" etc under it, that looks funny to me. I would have called the root say "Mouths" (hoping that does not get auto-tagged with the "Mouth" tag) then "Neutral Mouth", "Sad Mouth" etc under it (which get auto-tagged).

 

The other thing you need to worry about however is to make sure the mouth variants are all picked up by behaviors (Face and Lipsync). You can expand the "handles" section to see what layers it found. It first looks for layers tagged "Mouth" then looks for children layers with all the viseme tags. So another possible reason is that has not worked - layers were not tagged for visemes correctly, or the behavior did not find them.

 

The expression variations would then be added to the swap set. (I notice the "alt mouths" layer is not in the swapset, I assume on purpose?)

 

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Rajae22959864g0o7Author
Participant
February 2, 2022

Hey! Thank you so much Alan ! I've been a big fan of your dedication to solve issues here, you are a TRUE LEGEND and I really respect how devoted you are to help others, I will try to go by your advice, I am still learning and all those parents and children layers are new to me so I am trying my best, 😅 I will let you know if your suggestions worked for me, Keep it UP man!

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