Making a HD Complete Character blink

[Kevin Chiu]

Hi Frank,

Please try the quick example which shown the idea for how to animating a blinking eye.
Actually it will need to move the bones positions more rather then just the orientations.
But the batter way for doing this will be animate the bones with matrix which include both the positions and rotations.

Hope this helps.

[Kevin Chiu]

Hi Frank,

For your information, the blink animation at my example which I post previously was played back at a slowdown speed for showing the idea.
Here is another example which will playback the blink animation at normal speed.

Cheers,

[Frank Verberne]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you very much for your example! I managed to get the animation I wanted. Never thought about the position of the bones (and never worked with matrices in Vizard), but it worked like a charm!

Cheers,
Frank

[Frank Verberne]

Just updated the code. Old version:

def playback():
	def subTask():
		for bones in boneObjList:
			bones.lock()
		currentBone = 0
		
		for mat in boneMatList:
			boneObjList[currentBone].setMatrix(mat, viz.ABS_PARENT)
			yield None
			if currentBone+1 == len(boneObjList):
				currentBone = 0
			else:
				currentBone += 1
				
		for bones in boneObjList:
			bones.unlock()
		
	viztask.schedule( subTask() )

# Press the space key for playing back the blink animation
vizact.onkeydown(' ', playback)

A little more pyhtonic:

def playback():
	def subTask():
		for bones in boneObjList:
			bones.lock()
		
		for i, mat in enumerate(boneMatList):
			boneObjList[i % len(boneObjList)].setMatrix(mat, viz.ABS_PARENT)
			yield viztask.waitDraw()
				
		for bones in boneObjList:
			bones.unlock()
		
	viztask.schedule( subTask() )

# Press the space key for playing back the blink animation
vizact.onkeydown(' ', playback)