Look direction

[zarbar]

 Just faced a very interesting issue. 3ds is fine to animate a skeleton, FaceGen to change face expression. But where is the bone or a tool to change the point my character looking at? How to control eyeball orientation? No bones, no plugins... i'm totaly confused.

[gregathit]

You can enter those in the text commands of the animation, look left, blink left and so on.

[zarbar]

You can enter those in the text commands of the animation, look left, blink left and so on.

 

May i have a list of  possible commands? Google is useless.

 

UPD Found it! http://www.truancyfactory.com/tutorials/oblivion/ob_animation_textKeys.html

 

But there is nothing about "look"

[gregathit]

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php/Facial_expressions_in_animations

 

I may have been too hasty.  To actually turn a head you need to use the neck bone and alter the animation itself.  Normally an NPC will try to face you if you are talking to them.  If you do alter the animation with the neck bone, they it will always look in that direction.  Not sure if you are trying to get head tracking going or what.  

[zarbar]

 Thanks a lot, man!

 

 Now back to my work, i'm about to reverse the famous CTTAddPose without Blender.