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ps. Could this be the problem? I just noticed that sadmouth is not included in some of the viseme properties under lip synch. See screen shot. It just seems to be for Neutral and Ee. If that's what's doing it, how do I add sadmouth within the square brackets under each viseme shown?
The tags are pretty easy to do. If you go into rig mode, click on the "Head" layer in the rigging hierarchy, I *suspect* there will be a Mouth tag on it. On the right, in the properties panel, if you scroll down it should have a "tags" section. I personally click the little "A" icon to show the tag names as text. The pretty graphics I find harder to be sure what tag is what.
In my example, I clicked on the "Head" layer on the left and you can see it only has the "Head" tag on the right (after I clicked the "A" button on the right). I suspect you will have Mouth there as well. That is why your LipSync screenshot showed two bindings for Mouth at the top, Blank/Head and Blank/Body/Torso/Replace 4.... ummm, WHAT DA!! (I have no idea why you have a Mouth being detected in the Torso!)
To remove a tag, just click on the yellow on the right - it will remove it. To add it to your layers, select the layer on the left and click the "Mouth" tag on the right so it turns yellow.
But I will try to download puppet and have a look a bit later when I have a few more mins. I thought it was something simple, but the LipSync on closer examinination looks a bit strange.
Okay, I have loaded the puppet up. Most of it is correct, but there are some extra stray tags going on that is getting it confused. The LipSync is correct - there are some on Blank/Head (they should be removed) and there is one in the torso.
First Head:
Click the Head layer in the rigging hierarchy. You should see the image above. Then click the little "x" next to the Mouth and MouthGroup in the diagram to delete those tags from the Head layer. This one is important because it is suppressing the tags on the nested real mouth layers (the behavior found the mouth it thought so stopped looking). Once you delete these tags the LipSync should be healthier:
Next, expand the Blank/Body/Torso/[Replace ] 4 layer and remove the "MouthGroup" tag from there as well.
After that I think the mouths should be correct.
Next set of problems. Your SadMouth layers have extra behaviors added. See the little lego bricks and triggers? I think you want to remove all the extra behaviors and triggers on those layers. I think you only want a trigger on "Mouth" and "SadMouth" to make one or the other appear. There are all sorts of "Cycle Layers" behaviors which displays the children in order (which there are none in most cases).
The "Uh" and "W-Oo" layers are they only two that I think you want "Cycle Layers" behaviors added, like the normal mouth above. The rest should be blank.
For the triggers, have a look in the "Triggers" panel (underneath Project on the left)
You only need "Blank/Head/SadMouth" there - none of the children need to be there. The default is correctly "Blank/Head/Mouth". So that swapset will display Mouth or SadMouth (but never both at the same time).
To delete the triggers, I clicked the little 'x' next to the child layer names in the Triggers panel above, leaving just SadMouth at the top.
To delete the behaviors, I clicked on the layer, then looked over in the properties panel on the right. You will see the behavior there (LipSync for example is on the "D" layer). Use the 3 line menu to "Remove behavior from 'D'". Repeat for all the other layers. You only want a "Cycle Layers" behavior on layers with "1", "2" etc as children. The rest should have no behaviors on them.
Oh, the SadMouth viseme layers have extra tags too - lots of Mouth and MouthGroup tags. You will need to remove them all as well. Each viseme layer should have one tag, the viseme name. The "D" layer for example has a Neck tag added (!!). You "Ah" layer also has the "Uh" tag instead of the "Aa" tag I think (they renamed it at some stage). Remove all the extra tags, get them nice a clean, then look at LipSync again like you did before. You should see all visemes with 2 layers per viseme. If not, double check the exceptions.
Also check out the Rigging Issues panel
These also give hints of problem areas.
That might finally leave you with what is the difference between Mouth and MouthGroup. I never worked that one out myself to be honest! But it looks like MouthGroup is not being reported as a warning, so it seems like MouthGroup is more important than Mouth in terms of tags...
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