Hello awesome people,
Before proceeding to the latest change-log, let us remind you (yet again) that FaceRig is at this time still in development. It is fun and functional, but it still has a few bugs.
A new update is live on the "nextversion" branch, bringing some fixes for bugs our community reported after our latest patch.
[5'th of June 2015 Edit]: Now these have been tested and are also deployed on the main branch :)
Full change log:
- (Halloween DLC) Avatar Greta now has animated hands
- fixed Avatar Zyraxes animations
- added Avatar Zyraxes Retargeted (uses an enhanced version of Free Form Retargeting tracker interpretation module, should be more expressive)
- fixed infinite loading hang. Sometimes the app would hang indefinitely while starting up.
- changed movie export method for low resolutions. The movie is rendered at a minimum resolution of 1280x720 and then downscaled to the desired lower resolution. Above 1280x720, the movie is rendered at the specified resolution.
- changed UI SDK version. This will fix a save layout issue; previously, if an element was outside the view, it wouldn't have been saved at all.
- added tips and funny comments
- implemented eye lid compensation/correction when turning head
- eyes left right calibration was not applied when "force look at camera" option was on (when eyes were not tracked). Now, when the avatar is set to look at the camera the eyes are calibrated correctly.
- fixed eye pupil behavior on small left right ranges
- fixed .bmp export issue. The frame by frame export function was exporting a single file for every 4 frames.
- Increased default eyebrow noise threshold.
- reduced amplitude of some visemes, they now apply 70% of their max pose
If you are wondering about how to use the more experimental "nextversion" branch here are the steps:
- Open Steam Client. Go to Library -> Software
- Right mouse click on FaceRig -> Properties
- Go to BETAS tab, click in the "Select the beta you would like to opt into:" drop down, select "nextversion"
- Close window. The FaceRig program will update to the "nextversion" branch.
And now, we have something a very special to show you. The avatars for our Trailblazer backers are done!
We figured our community would like to see them so we asked them for permission to showcase the characters in a short video. We'd also like to take this opportunity to thank not only our trailblazers for allowing us to show you these, but all our backers who have supported the project in its early days on IndieGoGo and, in essence, made all of this possible :)
Now...which of these is your favorite?
https://youtu.be/TDmkRPx6wCk
*Remember: these characters belong to the five Trailblazer backers and will not be included with the program.
Have a wonderful week,
The FaceRig Team