Certainly I'll keep posting on here if I feel I can make a positive contribution.

Oooooooooh! Yes!!!! ;-)  I subscribe at your youtube channel  months ago but for this time I didn't resist to share on this forum .
It's really benefic for users and for RL team I suppose.
And it's the first time I understand because of your explanation choices of Reallusion development. Thank you.

Hi Marc, to be clear - any ideas I may express about how and why RL may be doing things are purely my personal opinion and interpretation based on my findings whilst working with their software, and my experience in the software industry. Whilst I hope my views may be of interest, they're really just my thoughts - and certainly shouldn't be taken as facts at all: really, any definitive clarification of either development or marketing strategy could only come from RL themselves. I'm just a user - a deeply interested and enthusiastic one perhaps - but in no way any authority on RL's particular policies at all.

Yes , I understund that it is your own interpretation ;-)  Since I received my Neuron kit I'm not "disturbed" about the RL way.
I take what they sell and make things with it. :-)

I just learned a couple new tricks watching tutorials on your channel 3DTest. I think it would be great for you to post more of them here as well.

Rampa, I'll post the channel link so that folks can peruse if they wish.

The reason I'd be reluctant to post all the vids individually is that the comment threads often have (I hope!) useful further info - and potential questions already answered - which may be unnecessarily repeated here. Similarly, I often make use of the video descriptions to give additional detail, particularly for tutorials. Tbh this is one of the reasons I asked RL to stop posting my vids on their facebook - I believe many are incomplete without the descriptions and Q&As which follow - and simply seen as eye candy (on facebook) they become more of a marketing tool for the software - which is not my intention.

Anyway, here goes - my channel is here for anyone who's interested:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKtjihhZQ_qmxEmbBzxt-nQ

Thinking a bit more about what may be helpful/ indicate the potential of the existing software, this video may be of interest to folks who may not have seen it - this is a short piece of virtual 'acting' I produced before starting on the latest Face Puppet rework:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgoGCPnizyk

It uses my original profile *.ini files - available here (thanks to Rampa for requesting them, and to Reallusion for allowing me to freely distribute these modified files without licensing worries): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1M4PylcPqMCQ1J5aXhCNTR6NFU

As well as the upgraded profiles, the example above also uses custom morphing for additional facial expressions - as well as cheek and neck movements. Tbh it was the realisation that my original profiles were still limited, and could be enhanced with new morphs - which started me off reworking Face Puppet more comprehensively. Now custom morphing on characters - which is surpisingly straightforward (and has endless possibilities, certainly not only for facial animation) - is described in my tutorial here, and I hope it might inspire folks to get creative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Lf6EwrJ9g

Hi All, fyi here's the latest test using my all-but-complete face puppet rework (I really could just keep polishing this, but I think it's pretty usable as it is) - again, more info in the comments thread.
Hopefully this shows just how far the existing FP can be pushed - though I'm sure it has even greater capabilities if developed correctly

Cheers, Mike (3Dtest)

Hmm, now let's see if the 'embed' code works here - or if I'm missing something (not unusual for me...!)...Lol! guess I should've checked the buttons below - anyway, done )

Hi,

as mentioned on youtube. This is really amazing work. I hope RL will somehow get in touch with you and can collaborate, so we all will get the chance to participate in the great work you have done.

Machines :
MSI Gaming Laptop, I7, GTX 1080, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 1 TB HD
Acer Predator Helios 300 I7 10750H, 16GB, 1TB SSD, RTX 2070

I have no plans to use iClone6 to produce anything (as I'm waiting for iClone7), but there's still a chance I might use iClone 5.5 Pro.
I'm just about to rewatch the 3DTest's videos and download it, so I'm wondering, as it's based on ini files etc, would it work in iClone5.5 Pro as well?

Anyone tried doing that?

Igonre that question, obviously it won't cause it's based on a CC avatar
Great channel, 3DTest!