[OFFER] TAFA Character Animation Lip Sync tool

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• TalkOrBell

  January 26

  Nice one... Did not have this>>>
• Garcia

  January 27

  thanks for sharing, this is interesting software!
  How do you know it was released for free, I tried looking at the wayback on the forum, is there a page or something?
  
  It's a small app, but complex, most of the size is avi tutorials.
  Tuts by the author of: https://www.amazon.com/Lightwave-3D-8-Character-Animation/dp/1556220995
  
  Per vertex, (morphing targets) animation, not skeleton/bones, which was common for facial animation.
  Requires a lot of work to get each target set up but this program is very useful.
  
  There are no standard export formats (ie dae/fbx etc), it exports to lightwave's morph mixer & Motion designer file mdd, the tuts say they are platform independent (MAX/Maya/xsi), ie: https://github.com/brainexcerpts/MDD_file_exporter and https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/45921/how-to-import-mdd-files
  
  
  There's also a simple text file export, which tracks the strength of each target for each frame, which is very useful if you can manage the morphing via programming, ie a game engine, this might be useful for me, because horde3d does this kind of morphing also.
  
  
  I uploaded the zip, the web avi, and the book.
  https://archive.org/details/tafa-character-animation-lip-sync-tool
  
  Thanks again!
  
• New_Disciple

  January 27 edited January 27

  Thank you for your post Garcia (and also TalkOrBell).
  Here are links to the dev's site with his download version and instructions:- link 1 / link 2
  He also did a forum post and is happy to have TAFA out in the wild. Enjoy..
• Garcia

  January 27 edited January 27

  thanks for the info!
  I found Mac's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MacReiter/videos
  
• New_Disciple

  January 27 edited January 27

  Great. I am impressed how quickly you managed to find all the associated material.
  
  I like the links to the 3D and 2D apps and other little utlities on this forum but am sad I missed the original posts and links which are now dead. I really do hope they revive again. I am also interested in those 3D and 2D apps which are non-installing and can just run from a usb stick (I saw mention of a hundred apps on a drive), but I will keep going through the threads.
• Garcia

  January 27 edited January 27

  I geek out on old 3D apps like this
  Some are more useful to me than others.
  If you come across a dead link ask for a reload.
  
  This site is also good to check out, he curates apps, vids and docs:
  http://www.flat2d.com/