Blendshape index - Physics Example

steveR

I am trying to understand how the Blend Shapes work with AC.

 I opened Brain in Blender and it had the following Shape Keys : Basis, Phenome0...Phoneme4, ExpressionSad, ExpressionHappy. In AC in the Shapeable Script you set up two groups of Phenome and Expression. For example Expression > Happy had a key label of  Happy and BlendShape Index of 0, Phenome 0 had a Key label of Phenome 0  and blend shape index of 2.

I am a bit confused on how the Blend Shapes in the model from Blender are referenced in AC.

steveR

I just found the new tutorials, and looked at the one on animating facial expressions. I believe the order listed in the BlendShapes listed in the mesh rendered , becomes the BlendShape index referenced in for each shape key in the  Shapable Script.

ChrisIceBox

Yes, that's right.  Once the Blendshapes are defined in the Shapeable script, the idea is that you don't have to remember their indices again - you can just use pop-ups from now on.