Mapping Facial and Extended Bones (New for 5.4)

In the Converting Models to Non-standard Characters procedure, you are mainly mapping the Body bones to the standard bone structure in order to apply motion-related features to the character in iClone.

However, if you want a non-standard character to be able to have facial expressions or spring effects, then you need to separately map the spare bones as facial, jaw and eye bones (for facial expressions) or extended bones (for spring effects or setting motion layer keys).

• Facial Bones: The facial bones, including head, jaw and eye bones, dominate the facial expressions of the character:

  The facial bones (under the head node).	The facial bones dominate the facial expressions.

• Extended Bones with Spring Effects: The extended bones, including those for the face and body, can be used for creating spring effects:

  The extended bones (under the head node or the body node) that have been given spring effects.	The extended bones with spring effects drive the bouncing of the mane and the tail.

• Extended Bones without Spring Effects: The extended bones, including those of the face and body, can be animated with FK and IK methods:

  The extended bones (under the head node or the body node) that have not been given spring effects.	The extended bones without spring effects can be manually animated in iClone.

Please refer to the sections below for more information:

• Mapping Facial Bones
• Setting Eyelid Bones for Blinks
• Setting Extend Bones - Spring
• Setting Extend Bones - Motion Layer Key Editing