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Eric C (RL)
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Eric C (RL)
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Hand Gestures Puppeteering (Dec.30, 2020 optimized!)The plugin had its 1.0 version in 2019 April, and it was builtfor animators with intuitive graphical user interface to drive the hand gestures of a character.
Now this plugin is updated with several enhancements. And we've made a tutorial to illustrate how you can animate with this tool.
https://marketplace.reallusion.com/hand-gestures-puppeteering
Once again, we teamed up with our power user Adolf Navarro to optimize this plugin. Adolf shares his thoughts and tips in this video:
We've added three main presets (default, male and female) to enhance usability, and enabled three modes of hand gestures puppeteering (left hand, right hand and both hands). Besides animating hand gestures, this plugin also acts as a great tool for editing mo-cap. Read the release note and Python API fundamentals below to know more about this handy plugin.
v2.0 Updates & Benefits Include:- Added 3 embedded presets: Default, Male, Female.
- Can choose to puppet individual left/right hand or both hands.
- Freely customize your own gestures to fulfill particular needs in any moment, or for flexible combination.
- Can reset gestures separately or all at once to the original Default preset.
- Gesture icons can now be replaced with a screenshot or an existing image.
- Blend out recording with original clips by definable frames.
- Added Preview and Record button and activation via the space bar, similar to the Motion Puppet and Direct Puppet tool.
Key Adjustable Parameters: ．Blend Mode: Enabling user to chose from 3 blend modes. ．Blend Out Recording frames: Enabling user to chose from 0-60 frames of blending motion clips. ．Preview/Recording: Enabling preview and record functions on panel. ．Hand Gestures Presets loading: Enabling user to load saved Hand Gestures Presets.
2021/Jan/4 update: 1. If you already had download the v1.0 plugin before, please log in to your RL account
2. Check out your Inventory List (Plug-in) and select the purchased date be setting by all.
3. Click "download" button and you will immediately start downloading your V2.0 zipped file.
4. Install the v2.0 plugin as usual
Version 2.0 Improvements:
Fixes:
*2-Point blend bug.
*Blending errors between the gesture points.
*Left hand capture bug.
*Crash from opening and closing the script dialog window.
*Recording no long deletes original clips within the timeline.
*Discrepancies between the blending parameter and the resulting effect.
Enhancements:
*Silent initialization: removed Console Log print when loaded.
*Changed recording hotkey to "R" instead of the space bar.
*Rearranged the user interface by grouping the relevant controls.
*Removed individual Preview and Record hotkeys.
*Removed influence on the movement of the wrists.
New Features:
*Add separate preview and recording for each hand; Now supports both hands, left, or right hand.
*Added Preview and Record button and activation via the space bar, similar to the Motion Puppet and Direct Puppet tool.
*Blend points are now replaceable with Right Hand, Left Hand, and revertible to Default Gestures.
*Blend point icons can now be replaced with a screenshot or an existing image file.
*Blend point data can now save and load via preset files.
*Blend point icons now scale as the blend weighting increases instead of highlighting in green.
*UI disabled state is now more obvious and consistent.
*Three completely new presets: "Standard", "Male", and "Female".
*The UI will now store the state of the prior session.
*The UI can now return the default factory state, with a press of a button.
*Now supports transitioning between the end of the recorded clip and any existing clip in the timeline.
*End transition period can be adjusted (number of transition frames).
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See the relevant resources below:
If you have any questions about the plug-in and the sample code, please feel free to post to this thread.
Relevant Fundamental Courses
Be sure to read this first to help you understand how this sample plug-in works.
You should familiarize yourself with the following fundamental lessons before you proceed:
- Using Temp Data - Learn to read/write temporary data.
- Embedding QML - A soft introduction to creating QML ui and embedding it into iClone.
- Merge All Clips - Take advantage of new and powerful merge clip capability in v7.83
For more courses and links to other Python of the Month activities, please visit here.
Enjoy!
Reallusion Python Team
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