maybe i was missing the keyframe I have to try this again because then you have your old fashioned easy to see library :)

yup doesnt work for me (back to doing it the way I have been record them at the start and save them in the timeline)

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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
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This seemed like such a good idea to me that I created a tutorial for it. Thanks Bellatrix for the idea.

You can save facial expression poses with custom thumbnails. Now we can easily build libraries and insert these wherever needed.

do you have the head creator from crazytalk because it wont work for me on any G6 Character.   :/ 

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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
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Curious.....

I'm using a Character Creator character. Running 6.4 without the latest patch, as I never have crash issues.

nope doesn't work i am using 6.4 but none of the extra patches.   I dont have any crashes or anything but when i open up the motion its using a g5 character.    I can do it on chuck etc but I can't do it on any G6 characters.  Likewise the facekey doesn't work for me.  I have reported this in the past but they told me "its working as intended" so I dont know if this is a bug or something that only works for some people LOL.  

Anyhow its great if you can get it to work I can't and I have spent all day on it lol so I must now give up and do it the way I was doing it ^^




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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
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No you're not alone on this one, Face Key doesn't work on the CC actors I've tried either. :(


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haha okay I have gotten it to work intermittently but I dont know if its actually supposed to work so I am puzzled.  If I grind my mouse through the desktop it works for a few seconds lol, but I dont really want to break my mouse.    Its just puzzling because when I report it i get told its working right when I tell them the trouble I am having.  so is it not supposed to work? or is it supposed to ? or LOL It almost seems like "hax" for lack of a better way to say it if you work at it you can fool the software momentarily (same with the face puppet thingy) if you do a sommersault and wish upon a star and hold your breath you might just might get it to work.    When I see this pattern it seems to me its actually not meant to work and its just a happy lucky few that have found the lucky combination.   (reminds me of gaming um tricks)

Anyhow I am not entirely convinced that this should be possible ^^ 

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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Dr. Seuss

Thanks to Bellatrix and Rampa for the tut. Works for me and is going to save so much time.
Can I just add that the motion plus files must be saved in the custom folder or "capture thumbnail " won't work.
Thanks again





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Ahhh........

It may be the slightly un-intuitive UI of the Face Key that is giving people the impression it won't work on their system. 

First click on a region in the window so that it turns green. You must do a single-click.
When the region is green, click-and-drag from within the region in the face key window. You can drag beyond the face key window.
Single click on a green region to de-select it. It'll return to gray.

This is much different than the puppet, where you move your mouse around in the main window.

Best of luck! :)

This Face Puppet tip is a very valuable one, so thank you to Bellatrix and Rampa. This will help make our faces more expressive.

We should have an index of valuable tips somewhere because it's hard to keep track of them.

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