Facial animation (morph) export for Unity


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By Makumba666 - 12 Years Ago
Hi all,
As you might be know, now (from version 4.3) Unity have built-in support for morphs - they are called blendshapes. You can apply morpher to some model in 3ds max, export it as a fbx file and all morphs will be imported into Unity as above-mentioned blendshapes. The problem is, having a blendshape and having an animation is absolutely different matter. iClone has great tools for facial animation, speech etc. while Unity only has basic animation editor, where you can create animations using curves\keys. It would be great if the user would be able to import some model with morphs into iClone, apply some facial animations, using decent iClone editors and then export model, along with morphs + animation file (.anim) to Unity. As .anim files mainly consist of numeric data, such as position, rotation, percent of morph target to apply etc. it should be not too hard to add such feature. On the other hand, such ability definitely will make iClone #1 animation solution for Unity engine. By the way, the same thing could be done for UDK, too.
By Peter (RL) - 11 Years Ago
Have you checked out 3DXchange5 Pipeline? I think most of what you need is already available. ;)

3DXchange 5.5 New Features

By vidi - 11 Years Ago
It would be great if the user would be able to import some model with morphs into iClone, apply some facial animations, using decent iClone editors and then export model, along with morphs + animation file (.anim) to Unity


You can use morph for facial animations already, no Problem with iClone to Unity.
xchange and iClone is the greatest animation tool for Unity ever :D

Here a Test Example

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48415327/affeFacialTest/affeFacialTest.html