Manually pick Surprise or Smile mouths in Character Animator

[woodya9882332]

When using the live Face video feed to move my characters head, I keep accidentally triggering the "Surpise" mouth. How do I later edit out / delete that suprise mouth from the tiemframe? I want to do it manually as the rest of the live face perfomrance and movements are fine.

Thanks!

[oksamurai]

If you just delete or untag the surprise mouth from your character, it won't show up anymore. If it can't find a surprised tagged mouth it will just ignore it. I used to run into the same thing a lot - so I tend to leave smile and surprised off most of my puppets now.

[woodya9882332]

Thanks. If i wanted to then be able to use the surprised mouth, should i
set up the mouths as a swap set?


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[oksamurai]

Yep, that's how I do it at least. For any extra mouths I just add them into a swap set so I have more control over them. Otherwise, as you saw, smile/surprise are kinda in a black box inside the face track (the behavior that actually records them). With triggers you have more visibility and editing options over them.