This file is not actually intrinsic to the facial animation code however it is used it init the actor a wrapper class for the facial animation system.
face-data/gedalia2/gedalia.msh
//Mesh file
face-data/gedalia2/gedtags2.dat //tagged
file
face-data/gedalia2/gedmuscle.dat //Muscle file
face-data/expressions.dat
//expression library, usually shared by all the actors
face-data/keyframes.dat
//compound expression library, usually shared by all the actors
<number of muscles>
<string> Type of muscle "linear", "cheek", "limited", "eye"
<name> (in quotes)
List of params:
| Params: | ||||
| "linear" and "forehead" | "limited" | "circular" and "eye" | "cheek" | |
| <point> // bone <point> // skin float //start float //end float //angle float //clamp |
<point> //bone <point> //skin float //start float //end float //angle float //clamp float //pathlen float //x falloff |
<point> //center <point> //scale int //orientation (1,2,3) float // x factor float // y factor float // z factor |
<point> // bone <point> // skin float float float float |
|
list of <channel Name> <channel value> where channel Name
is the Name of a muscle or an additional channel that has been defined in the
code
"<e>" to end the list and the expression.
#lefteyelid unweighted // name of list and type, type can be
weighted or unweighted
int
//number of verts in list
list of verts (with or without quotes)
#righteyelid same as above
#Jaw weighted
293
//number of verts
list of verts and wieghts:
0
//vert number
0.2
//weight of vertex
<number of expressions>
<name of expression>
list of <channel Name> <channel value> where channel Name
is the Name of a muscle or an additional channel that has been defined in the
code
"<e>" to end the list and the expression.
<number of compound primitives>
<name of compound primitives>
list of keyframes
<e> to end the list and the compound primitive.
A key frame list consists of the name of one or more primitives followed by optional time parameter and a ';' if there is no time param it is assumed that the transition to the primitive takes one second.
Examples work a lot better:
yes
bendforward ; //take one second to bend forward
Neutral ; //take
one second to go back to nutral
bendforward ; //do it again
Neutral ;
<e>
laugh
bendforward Smile openmouth .5 Left_Blink .5 Right_Blink ;
// this means add the values of bendforward, smile, open mouth and 1/2
left and right blink
<e>
The system also supports animating the channel information via the scripting language.
So you could do the following:
muscle_twitch
1.0 Left_Zygomatic_Major <t> .1 ; //take one tenth of a second to
contract the LZM muscle to a value of 1.
0.2 Left_Zygomatic_Major <t> .1 ; //take one tenth of a second to
relax the LZM muscle to a value of .2
1.0 Left_Zygomatic_Major <t> .1 ; //do it again
0.2 Left_Zygomatic_Major <t> .1 ;
Shared resources
Expression file - 41+ expressions
< 10K uncompressed
1K compressed
Compound expressions library
< 2K uncompressed .5K
Unique resources for each model
Tagged points + Muscle data
< 10 K
Mesh file… 100K> Could be improved with
a progressive mesh format.
Texture maps
size of BMP texture maps