Faceposer Tutorial 2: Choreography and Hammer (pt 1)

[ThreeSaltyNuts]

missing buttons bug is fixed go to the developer valvesoftware wiki and search Choreography_creation

[AwesomeHeavy]

the three red buttons that appear above the timeline in your video fail to show up in my version of SDK, could anyone lend me a hand here?

[ThreeSaltyNuts]

@AwesomeHeavy same problem here. could be a bug in the sdk for win vista/7 users

[SWEGTA]

lol nice intro :D

[jsebasoz]

Hey how much ram does ur computer have (im new in this stuff so i would lole to know more about this)

[sourceplayer151]

next tutorial: TEACH US HOW TO MAKE A CHANNEL DKJHJKDHSFLKS

[stickman852]

the play buttons dont show up at all, even when i started.

[Hellcoam]

Uhm?

[JumpsBB20]

lol nvm it came back nice tut too

[JumpsBB20]

um when i put the gesture in the down in the thing there is no apex loop start end thing just a little guy and the name of my sound, what did i do wrong?

[stickgore]

im trying to make a courtroom sentence scene, I want the guy to be sitting and lipping the lines I have from a movie, must he be standing to use the lipsync like in a npc position (like alive) or can i use it on a ragdoll?

[silkmaker8]

I inserted my audio and it says it's good and when i insert it in the bar with the voice and stuff, my character guy just stands there and does nothing, but I hear my audio when i click on play, what to do?

[DorotkaStrzelec]

how to download a program?.

[MetaKiller2345]

can you create ur own gestures?

[ThePirishman]

@MetaKiller2345 If you know how, sure, but you don't really need to because of the gesture manipulation ability

[Thoopje]

when i go into the gestures list theres nothing in it and when i try to add a actor it doesn,t do anything HELP

[drudigger]

umm you say ummm alot

[Gmodcinematic]

When im done with the movie I am making I will be sure to give you credit for helping me how to do this. thanks!

[MrDrdoomlittle]

What do I do about the scenes.Image????

[xMonkeysgotfirex]

my choreography says read only and i cant insert my audio what should i do??

[QwukeStudioz]

@xMonkeysgotfirex it means your a failed abortion.

[kittyburger000]

Ehm, when i'm sliding the green bar faceposer crashes :S

[SuperSquag]

i cant find the play button D:

[deejaybee11]

@SuperSquag yeah neither. i just have 3 grey squares

[MrDrdoomlittle]

Hey, i'm using Portal for hammer and other editors, but I don't own Half-Life 2. I save the .wav to the sound folder and when I add the .WAV to the channel and it doesn't even show up. What can I do?

[PortalPerson121]

When I load a model, the arms are outwards like the mingebag model on War of the Servers, how can I fix this??

[stimms212]

@PortalPerson121 this is normal, while playing ingame, it will go with the current animation of your actor.

[exomonkeyman]

this is awesome but for machinamas it takes to long to do all this for a 4 to 10 second shot its just to much

need to

make a face poser like this in game so its easy and works better and saves hours

[RealityCoaster]

UH UH UH UHM UHM UHM UH UH UH UHU HU HUHUHUHUHUHUHU.

Wow, get a script next time.

[Elrem400]

Hey,i used the TF2 Face Poser,and when i click in Gestures,nothing's there....

What shoud i do?

[Elrem400]

dude,im trying this in my TF3 Face Poser,where should i save the .WAV sound for it to play it in the Voice Channel?

[JKTCGMV13]

Haha this noob uses xp... and... actually has a working face poser...

[MrAwesome706]

how do you import it in game

[Thoopje]

my flex animation screen is empty what do i do?

[MrLpeX]

Your Back

[PsycoRevolution]

If you add the wav speech to a channel and it won't play it here is the solution:

All your sounds you use must be saved in "steamapps/username/halflife2/­hl2/sound" only *VOTE UP SO ALL CAN SEE!

[deejaybee11]

@PsycoRevolution and if it is saved there and still doesnt work?

[PsycoRevolution]

@deejaybee11 ....then you're fucked 8D

[francez123456789]

face poser dosent wana work...

[jesusofspazzareth]

@francez123456789

Are you on Vista?

[francez123456789]

@jesusofspazzareth NO 7 im useing windows 7

[jet1567]

I'm having the same problem as some people here, when I import my wav file, it either says not in game folder or it does accept it but it doesn't come up as a bar and doesn't play so I can't add animations. It will still play in Gmod if I skip that step but I need the animation or else it looks too monotone. Any ideas?

[ShadoBat]

everything worked til up about 2:30 when i hit ok the file does NOT show up at the bottom where its suppose to

[SuperSquag]

i guessed the katana314

[Flashtheman2]

WHAT THE FUCK????!!!!!! when i type in the name of my .wav file into the import wav into channel thing, it comes up as 0.001 of a second and doesnt play!!!!!!! it says it's not in the game_sounds script files!!! what do i do?!

[Urpresident]

male_07 is AWESOME!

[sourceplayer151]

problem: when I play my scene back the sound sounds like faceposer is on doobies

[pipo890]

When I try adding the sound it says "sound not in game_sounds script files!" Help, urgent!

[GLTC123]

bam bam the beggining song

[starwolffan13]

OMG!

[LukeElsdonVideos]

When i click the gestures bit, it is empty. Why is this happening? All I can think of is that I'm using TF2, but I thought all the animations were released.

[acelove27]

Try clicking on the tab again, the window doesn't fully show up for me until I double click on the tab.

[QuantumRise]

I fixed it. It's because the sound i was trying to use wasn't in the [gamepath]/[gamename]/sounds folder.

So for example it should be in Half Life 2 Episode 2/ep2/sounds

hope this helped.

[razor2657]

thank you :D

[TamiyaGuy123]

Ah, that's brilliant, thanks so much for the help. I had trouble with that, too.

[QuantumRise]

When I enter the name of the sound on the Add WAV part (It brings up the list) When i enter the names on the boxes and press OK it doesn't add my sound to the coriography. And also, the Play, Stop, and Pause buttons are disabled. Any help?

[mixterproductions]

In Engine version u need HL2:EP1 and in Current game u need Half life 2, in source sdk starter then it'll work :)

[HamishM150]

Arguing about religion on YouTube... Fail.

[Tobi4444]

this is a good tutorial bro, 5 stars

[simonpettersen]

may god bless you !

[Crowz]

THERE IS NO GOD

[KristopherLara956tx]

Fail

[Crowz]

why is it a fail? its rational give some all i ask is some evidence for god

[KristopherLara956tx]

well...they have living proof of noahs ark.thats a start.but i dont know.

still a fail tho

[Crowz]

No its fucking not there is no proof of noahs ark you just fucking heard something and did not investigate it and you think it is true. Why? because it agrees with what you believe. do some work look at the evidence. ( or lack of) and make a reasoned chaise. wright me a pm I would love to talk to you more about this "proof" you have.

[KristopherLara956tx]

then wheres your evidence saying there is no god?

[Crowz]

then wheres your evidence saying there is no alah

just because there is no evidence against something does not make it true.

[KristopherLara956tx]

exactly

[Crowz]

exactly? what is that supposed to mean? you agree with me you have dropped religion or are you just out of arguments.

[HeHooHunts]

Agree with crowz

[Kevithemaster]

Don't use fraps or anything you can record using the source engine with no third party programs or anything, it works great an no lag. PM me if you want the link to it, or you can probably find it on the TF2 steam forums. Thats where I found how to do it.

[modman1234567]

i have the same problem as him and i did do all of that Please help!!

[DeadMansFilm]

Is fraps free?

[DarakasStudios]

there´s a free version, but its shit because you can only take movies of 30 seconds.

[iPod13246]

torrent ;)

[JCloth431]

you can download it on torrent or something

[SenselessJacko117]

Use source Recorder that comes with every source game (thru console)

[coolfimsc]

when i add the wav file to the choreography nothing is happening... i mean somthing is appening to the "Voice" line but when i press play... there is no sound or lipsynching (and yes i got windows xp)

[pvtpuffy]

I must add that to put the audio into the timeline, put the wav file into the hl2 sound folder.

[1tootall96]

whats the song in the begining

[Goawaynow100]

Guess who's back by Slim Shady... I think

[Monxer]

By eminem.

[visualgf]

Without Me - Eminem

[DayVour]

When I place my wav file into the choreography section I can hear the sound, but my character's lips wont move. Any suggestions? I don't know if speach sdk should have been installed in a certain folder (if so you really should have covered it). I can't see the play,pause and stop buttons either, but they work nonetheless. It says that It "can't find file entry" under the wav file in the choreo window.

[CTPAX92]

My suggestion is that you added your .wav file in Phoneme Editor, upgraded and saved somewhere else, or copyed in sounds folder wrong .wav file or old one which you did upgraded with Phoneme Editor.

About not showing Start,Pause,Stop icons and entry error dont worry almost everyone got them.

[pvtpuffy]

Same problem here mate.

[MrHankkey93]

hey at 2:28 or so when u put it into the timeline thing, i try that and it doesnt play the sound, i made sure i was spelling the name of the wav right, any idea what im doing wrong?

[Coolio65234234234]

same its friggen annoying

[PhoenixDK99]

Eminem - Without Me

[MrHankkey93]

hwo do i save stuff on this cause i just worked forever getting somthing right and it just crashed on my... wtf

[DayVour]

press choreography in the top left corner and select save as. I'm new, but I'm guessing that's how you save your vcd files.

[Deven779]

im having troble here im clicking on actor but when i do it doesnt shbow up and i tryed so many times but it will not show up on the choregorasphy. i need help to solve this.

[bob1921o]

i dont know whats ring i can't find it...

can you make a video tutorial on how to get to it my files must be messed up...

[bob1921o]

nothing worked i still can't find it...

[bob1921o]

well i am having trouble finding that i get this far C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\mynamehe­re\counter-strike source then i get nothing after that...

[bob1921o]

i will try that and give u stuff 2mro ^^

[bob1921o]

ok well i will try that then but ummm i got steam for garrys mod and counter strike so i got the bundle sooo would i be looking in my garrysmod? or counter strike

[CrowbarSka]

great tutorial! in-depth but not too overwhelming. very useful.

[bob1921o]

well ok first i made that moth move thing and saved the wav and then i went all the way with the channel thing i went to import the wav into the channel and after i did that it it dosnt work his mouth wont ovie or anything.... so is it the wav file?

[bob1921o]

odd when i imported that sound in the channle it wont play and my play stop and pause buttons are all white boxes... any help....?

[bob1921o]

yes i saved and everything from the last game and bam i still wont work! im not sure whats up

[GuitarHeroJCJ]

Ill be sure to give it a go. Even though that my graphics drivers suck ass.

Thanks

- Josh

[dragoontroop88]

When I open The Gestures Window it is blank with no pictures or anything

[GuitarHeroJCJ]

But in the Add Wav. window( after channel etc ) where do I select the sound if its not in the script?

Thanks Andrew

[LeftForBlues]

haha yeah i noticed, after a loooong time lol, thanks anyway.

[GuitarHeroJCJ]

Heeeey anyone/katana.

You said to create a high class pro mod you need to put the WAV. file in the game scripts.

Well, im doing this for fun and , im left in the dark by adding the WAV. file for the choreography.

I dont know how to add it.

Do I put the game directory in the path?

[CriticalIdiot]

no its ok now turns out theres a glitch where you dont get the graphics for thoughs buttons so i just downloaded them

[CriticalIdiot]

I don't get any of the play pause or stop buttons on the choreography tabs

[LeftForBlues]

Almost no windows are working lol

[LeftForBlues]

Btw, i can't get the gesture tab to work.. when i press it up, there is nothing in the window :S

[dragoontroop88]

I have the same Problem

[6yXJI0]

WTF!

Flex animation doesnt work at face poser when you have more than one actor.

Why?

How can i add actors at the 3d view?

[Aidanp66]

how did u get the play stop buttons?

[MachanicalChicken]

Just so everyone knows; when you are putting a sound into the choreography the wav has to be in the game's sound folder and you have to put .wav at the end of the name when putting in the sound name. That was the problem with me.

[BlackMesaScienceTeam]

I can't get mine right I get no sliders I only get this active 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 crap and when I double Click nothing happens

[BF2User5]

lol at the end wat does it say below event it like appears

[Metalhead56565]

The Sound on mine just wont work. Im Using Vista but ive maneged to lip sync it any way. But when i type the name in it says it cant find the entry. the sound file is in hl2/sounds but it still wont work. In Laymans terms. PLEASE HELP ME!

[xxxmorgyxxx]

you have to put it in your sound folder located in your game folder

[Metalhead56565]

i have but it still wont work

does any one know how to add it to the script files?

[xAustechx]

Here's some help for you guys having trouble with the lips moving because this helped me. When making the channel for your wav, it helps if the wav is in your hl2 sound directory. This directory is here:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\YOURUSER­NAME\half-life 2\hl2\sound

Hope this helps you guys and girls :)

[LeftForBlues]

thanks lol, that helped aloy!

[JackIsASpy]

How do I make the actors mouth move? It plays and animates, but no mouth movement

Help please

[TzarnazProductions]

Try right clicking the phonemething and press Commit -blablabla-, cant remember what it says:D

[Nochtjaeger]

So what do I do if I've gotten the phoneme extraction to work, cleaned it up and saved it, but when I go to add the .wav file to the timeline, it gives me an error in the form of a small red X below the event?

[jaj0lin0]

ok when i add my wav file to the choreography it dosent play any sounds. can someone please help me.

[DigitalFlameProduct]

When I add the .wav file to the voice channel, it shows up as a little red vertical bar that I can't extend, and the sound doesn't play. I have no clue how to fix this.

Just in case this has something to do with it, I'm running the SDK with the Half-Life 2: Episode 1 engine and the same game.

[RedHawkAirsoft]

For everyone who is having problems with their WAV files when re-extracting then i suggest that you download Speech SDK. It really helps :)

The link is on the first video in the description :)

[d9soccer]

how does it help? i downladed it but i get the same problem, help plzzzz . does it make a difference if im on vista?

[RedHawkAirsoft]

Yes, if you have Vista then you have to do the faceposing by yourself and that is pretty advanced for a beginner such as yourself. sorry

[joes33431]

umm, i tried 2 use flex animations, but when i get 2 the window, nothings there

[kingmario52]

yea after you add a wav file to the voice channel i dont get anything, can someone help ?

[hunter2600]

any tips for vista users?

[webman445]

when i start fp, it fucks up and close it self.

does any one else have this problem. if so, do you know how to fix it?

[SergeantEars]

hey my voice file wont open in the wav event

how did you save your sound file for face poser to recognise it?

you skipped that part

thats what happens when people premake things :EEEEEE

[getlow1985]

i think u watch part 1

[kitty0706]

Thank you so much man now I can make scenes in my movies! :D

[shazs]

i keep trying to add my wav file to the channel but it gives me a little line that makes no sound

what can i do to fix it

[SpringCleric]

try enunciating , speak with more emphasis

[kevin13tran]

Hey, I'm having trouble with the part after you added the channel and you add the WAV File.

I typed in my WAV file name, but I still get nothing. Where can I find the game sound scripts folder so I can manually implement it?

[Birdboy07]

When i try to add my own sound it never comes up. If Im using Ep 2 in face poser, where do I save the file so face poser can find it?

[Birdboy07]

nevermind, I just used HL2, much easier.

[TamiyaGuy123]

Ah, thanks for the tip. I had the same problem too. I just hope it works in Gmod....

[UnScriptedFlix]

can you make longer segments? how long? does it become less accurate when synced to lips?

[Keenarnor]

there isn't a play, pause, or stop option for me, just white boxes How can I fix it?

[shadowstudios9]

Man my adiou files wont work.

[sajten]

I sux at hammer, but im makeing a comedy scene with 2 actors. Is it easier to record a scene with 2 actors?

// SpyTec

[jian2069]

The way you say 'umm' is REALLY bothering me.

[sajten]

Haha XD

Then shut the sound when he says it XD

[bustyouup519]

On my choreography window, i dont see the play, pause and stop buttons, so i can't play my choreographies. How do u make them appear. Nice tutorial btw

[TheRealEcho199]

I had the same problem, but changing engines solved it. What engine are you currently running with Source SDK?

[airsoftteamcrusaders]

what are you useing

[TheRealEcho199]

TF2 with the OB engine didnt work, but HL2 with the Ep 1 engine did.

This could just be me, though, so try every source game you own until it works.

[LemonScentedPinecone]

i dont get the part when u add a channel then named it voice. i tried to "import" the wav but it never comes in. what am i doing wrong?

[Nasaratsu]

Okay...

I did it all correctly so far, there`s one prob.

When the choreograph ends, the voice sound keeps playing and keeps looping (but the actor doesn`t move his mouth nor anything)

Any hints?

[TotallyTyler2]

T_T MAn i did everything that everyone told me but its STILL not working!!!!!!!

i have it in hl2 sounds and i even tryed out the sample and nothing the sound on the chore.

dosnet work HELP!!!!!!

[BigKevO117]

Which File do you download from the Speech SDK i keep getting errors :(

[TheKris555]

One more question :p How can I make npcs walk to a selected spot. If I choose the walking animation, they just stand at one spot and walking. How can I make them move?

[Katana314]

Use the Move To command, and target either a !target, or one of the other actors. You then need to specify that target from the logic_choreographed_scene in Hammer.

[TheKris555]

Everything works fine when I do it, except ONE little thing; How do I "smooth out" the animations. I mean, if a guy is gonna cover from an explosive (for excample), and then dodge and run away, the animations doesn't go smooth. He pops over from one animation to another! They doesn't "hang together"! It is not smooth. How do I make it smooth with no popping over to another animation? Plz help!

[Katana314]

Hm. I can't guarantee this will work, but maybe you could use the Ramp tool? Select it from the tabs at the bottom, select one of the animations, and then create Flex-esque keyframes, so it drops off as the other animation is starting. Then, do the inverse for the other animation.

[Turret841]

do u need gmod for this

[Johnhawkes]

no...

[directedbydaniel]

Same here, it seems like the .wav file I made isnt being imported properly. Which folder should it be in? Thanks!

[directedbydaniel]

oops, wrong folder! I thought he said to put it in the hl2 folder, but if you are using the newer EP2 engine you have to put the sound file in

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\*youruse­rname*\half-life 2 episode two\ep2\sound

thanks for the excellent tutorials!

[eljameo1000]

difficult to follow, but i get the just of it.

i will look at your vids in the future!

[eljameo1000]

Help! whenever i make a new channel and put the sound name and the file etc. it doesent play the sound. or move the actors mouth. the red line is a milimeter long. so i made a long sound (something 20 secs long) and that didnt make a difference! it works fine up until that point. can anyone help?

thanks

[eljameo1000]

to add to that, when i open the gesture window, it's blank. all i can access is the drop down.

[DOTHEKOOPA]

I did EVERYTHING in thse tutorials, but when I press play, it plays the sound, but my actor's mouth is closed the whole time...

[DOTHEKOOPA]

Nvm Commit Extract made it work

[fabioproductions]

I made the channel for sound and I put in testing.wav cause thats what I say and it says on voice that it is inactive how do I fix that?

[LemonScentedPinecone]

i have the same problem i cant figure it out either. . . ive googled it and everything!!!

[Dune1884]

??

when im trying to get the sound into the choreograph it says "sound not in game_sounds files" what am i doing wrong ?

plz help me

[eljameo1000]

dont worry, i got this wrong first time too.

i think you should (main) name it the same as the file name

e.g. if you had a WAV file named: testing :where it says "name", name it the same as the file (in this case, testing)

soz if i didn't do much help, or any at all, but it worked for me.

and double check you got the file name right

[TheKris555]

I got a serious problem in Hammer!: EVERYTHING IS WIREFRAMES, AND WHEN I TRY TO RUN MY MAP, IT CRASHES, AND ONE OF THOSE FUCKING ERROR POPS UP! DAMN!

[FoXoF1337]

then read some hammer tutorials, this is a faceposer tutorial, dumbass

[bocca882]

Jesus! your saying too much umm! Good video tough.

[Miles003]

When I make New Choreography my program changes status to [Read-Only]. So I can't edit chorepgoraphies, watch them with buttons and more ;( Where is the problem?

[sajten]

I dont get start loop and end ^^

[FSynchro]

Uhm, whenever i try to put my wav file in, it says it can´t find it but i´m pretty sure its there, I even saved it :/