I think I imported them using the Maya template in 3DXchange. It worked well. I just wished I had made more characters before Pinocchio closed...:crying:

http://area.autodesk.com/products/features/charactergenerator

You need an autodesk login, but that is free.

When exported as biped you need to reassign the hip and one spine bone

two texture maps are output - one for the eyes and one for everything else which becomes the "skin" in Iclone. Specular and normal maps can also output. The textures in my videos look a bit washed out but that is because I didn't realise that they import with the strength slider at about 70%. Bump it up to 100% and they look fine.

Not direct - you have to convert the character in 3DXCHANGE

But it is fully rigged and can use any iclone body motions but I think you need to use the paid version to get the facial rig and be able to use facial animating and lipsynching

And also when you have converted your first character you can then save away the various profiles that you have created so that subsequent characters can reuse them making the process even quicker!

You will need to use the convert to non-standard character process to turn it into a character. I wish I could help more but I'm at work:ermm:

Armstrong.

Schemer - when you load it into 3dxchange you need to assign the materials - in the folder you unzipped you will find the material file - jst drag that file on top of the character and then set the strength slider to 100%.

If you also ticked the specular and bump map options you will have these too and you can assign these also. 

There is a video here put up by truebones which illustrates the process within the generator - it is amazingly easy and intuitive

You do not seem to have the bump and specular maps (option when exporting) but that does not matter for now.

It also lloks like you have a separate wig (!) so drag the wig colur on the model hair and then add the bump and specular if you wish as they are there for the wig

Mark - Unfortunately you only get the facial rig (and therefore facial animation) with the paid for version which is based on credits which are not yet available. But - if like me - you have a family member in full time education get them to sign up to autodesk education and you get the full version for free!

Yes - what you will need to do is create multiple versions of the character in the generator using different clothes. You could edit the uvmap but that could be a challenge.

Don't forget to make sure the strength slider for the material is increased to 100% and next time you output select the specular and bump map in the options which will improve the look of the character  

It should be posible to create facial animation based on morphs. I haven't really time to explore it right now, but what you do is using Export Mesh and Replace Mesh to create a series of morphs that you can then map to visemes.

Export Mesh will give you an OBJ file. Load that into Argile, Sculpris, or something like that and reshape the mesh to give a specific mouth shape, "Oh" for example.

Save as OBJ under a different name, and reimport the mesh with Replace Mesh (this is just to check what it looks like).

In the Expression Editor section on the right, there is a Morph List. Click Add and load the OBJ file you just created. This will be the morph for that mouth shape and will appear as a new morph under the mesh in the list.

According to a recent post by Cricky about making iClone's Citizen Extras talk, the minmum you need are: "Frown", "Oh", "Wide", and "Smile".

Once you have created and added some morphs, open the Expresion Editor and click the Viseme tab. You will find the morphs with sliders listed on the right.

The idea is now to select a viseme and using the sliders mimic the mouth shap as accurately as possible. Once you're satisfied, click Set  to save the settings and move to the next viseme.

As I said, I don't have the time right now to go through the full process myself, but this is the general idea. The character will now be able to speak.

There is one thing that I don't quite know yet how to use and that is the teeth up and down which is listed in the skeleton. It is important to be able to get the teeth up for some speech sounds or it will look funny.