Face Controls for G8.1 not working in 1.7.0
Issue #1344
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I just updated to Diffeo 1.7.0 and found that importing a G8 character with the face controls is not working anymore like it used to do. When checking “convert to widgets” the face control mesh was usually converted to bones and merged with the main rig. This stopped working. On import I also get an error message saying:
Meshes with triax weights found. Consider converting to general weights in DAZ Studio.
Genesis 8.1 Male Face Controls.002
On a side note:
would it be possible to make the face controls working with G9? While I agree with most saying that G9 really isn’t a big step forward in many aspects I find it super useful that eyes an mouth are now separated. And at least in the face area I appreciate the added geometry. But animating the face with sliders is simply not working for me so I will have to stick with G8 until there are face controls for G9 in Diffeo.
Thank You
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repo owner
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There’s no facs rig for G9, daz didn’t make it yet. Don’t know if they plan to do it at all since G9 is out from a while now.
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reporter
Thank You so much for looking into this. I tested the latest Commit and found the face controls are working again for G8 females. I still get the error with the triax weight, but the face controls are working. On G8 male the problem that the face controls don’t convert still persists, at least for me. I tested both in blender 3.3 and 3.4.
You are absolutely right that DAZ has not published any face controls for G9, yet. What I was proposing was using the G8.1 face controls from the developers extras on G9 and remap the drivers to make it work with G9 . But I completely understand that it is rather hacky, probably a lot of work and perhaps not really of interest for a lot of people. Still thank you a lot. I hope DAZ will publish somethin to control the FACS with a rig in the near future, as without it G9 is really worthless to me.
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repo owner
The G8.1 male controls should work now. I thought that the male and female controls were the same, since the female controls don’t hint that they are female only. However, the male controls are named differently.
As for G9, we recently introduced a table that translates between the G8.1 and G9 facs names. It is used when loading expressions, but it should be possible to use the same table for facs controls. Not tonights, though.
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repo owner
The G8.1 face controls should now work with G9. There is still a problem with automatic shapekey transfer to face meshes - it only seems to work for the first mesh - but that is a separate issue.
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reporter
Dear Thomas, you’re amazing! Thank you so, so much. It’s working great.
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repo owner
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Face controls for G8.1 works again now. The Convert To Widgets option is now a suboption of the Merge Rigs options, so it was removed from the main list to avoid duplication.
I don’t seem to find any face controls for G9. They are located in the developer kits folder for G8.1, but I can’t anything similar for G9. If you have it, perhaps I can make it work if you tell me what its url is. The url is found in the Utilities panel.