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From: "Pedro J. Cabrera" <cabr5875@kutztown.edu>
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Subject: RE: character speech
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Hi, fellow LW users!
I am a new LW mailing list reader, and I'm glad to have subscribed. I've
been learning and using Lightwave for 5 months now, excellent product.
Anyhow, on to the topic at hand ....
I've been following the character speech thread from the archives (to
catch up), and I'm afraid some of you may be disappointed (while others
will be elated!) to know that there is a product out there that does this
rather well.
It is Motion Master Volume 1 ($150 US), a set of LW utilities with varied
animation uses. One of its utilities, Time Machine, does what you want
(I know, 'cause I use it). Here's an excerpt from a review of Motion
Master in the March '95 issue of Video Toaster User (my comments are in
parenthesis):
Time Machine is a time-line editor for multiple object morphs. It was
written as a means of easily lip syncing Lightwave animations to a
dialogue track. It can also be used as a general multiple-morph editor.
Figure 1 (see magazine) shows Time Machine's editing screen with a
waveform display of some sampled sound on the bottom. A separate sound
control panel allows you to adjust and load standard Amiga audio
samples. On the editing screen, time in frames runs left to right, and
morph objects run from bottom to top (up to 16). Constructing a
Lightwave multiple target morph is a simple matter of creating keys by
clicking on the various object's slots at a particular frame, then
clicking on the make scene button to output a Lightwave scene file.
(end of quote)
Here is the company's information:
MetroGrafx
625 Newton Drive
Lake Orion MI 48362
(810) 693-5134 Phone/Fax
I don't mean to be a party pooper, I just wanted to save some people some
grief, since one of you was interested in developing a program to do this
same effect.
One suggestion: if you subscribe to a magazine, read every little nook
and cranny. I've known about this utility set for half a year now. I
bet most of you subscribe to VTU and simply missed the ads for this product.
--
Pedro J. Cabrera
cabr5875@kutztown.edu
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