Logic Controlled Blendshape

Since Miarmy 4, we can control the blendshape directly by logic.The geometry of each agent can be deformed by blendshape separately base on logic input.

For example,when they close to some object, they appear smile facial expressions, when them close to another object, they can appear angry.

Firstly, add regular Maya blendshape node to the model which in the group “Geometry_XXX”, and make sure it can work fine.

We added 2 expressions smile and angry to the "head_Geo"

Output Decision (language mode)

After adding blendshape, you can directly use the logic language to active it.

Blendshape >

• set blend shape:??? value 1

• set blend shape:??? value 0

In above example, we can directly call the Maya Blendshape Node Name.

If we use “set blend shape:blendShape1.head_Smile_BS value 1”,the agent will appear the blendshape which name is “blendShape1.head_Smile_BS”.

If we want to turn off some blendshape just use “set blend shape:??? value 0”. 

Example

Let's create two decision nodes to control the agent’s blendshape.

When our agents more closer to spot which id is 1, the blendshape "blendShape1:head_Smile_BS" will be more activated to 1, and when they far away from spot[1], the value will be drop to 0.

And this is the same as the spot[2], the more agent closer to spot[2] the more angry it will be.

use blendshape "smile" when closer to spot[1]

use blendshape "smile" when closer to spot[2]

You can use the agent match tool  to check the agent status

When they close to spot 1, agents appear smile

When they close to spot 2, agents appear angry

Blendshape Cache

If there is any blendshape logic in scene, and when you cache your scene, all the blendshape info will be write into blendshape cache automatically.

And this is very important to renderer.

Mark Deforming Object

When you need to render the blendshape object, please select the geometry and mark it "deforming object":