Morph Manager
CryTools: Morph Tools
Facial Tools
CryPlantKey is one of the first cryTools written, it is used to plant a node (i.e. foot) in a spot specified by the animator for a given number of frames.
Auto Generation/Extraction
When you press 'Load Morphs from Selected, the text at the top changes to echo the number of morphs loaded from the selected head/mesh. When using the number of morph targets rigidly setup for the Crysis pipeline, you can ignore 'dirty output', when you bake out morphs, they will be arranged by morph set and colored in the fashion that you are used to. The baked out head meshes will also be named with their respective morpher name.
- Enable Dirty Output: This means that you are exporting a head or object that does not use the rigid preset structure of the Crysis facial pipeline. Dirty Output is used when baking or adding an arbitrary number of morphs to a selected head or object with a morph modifier (useful for baking out vertex animation, an example from Crysis would be the parachute). The morphs created are named using the names from the morph target in the morpher modifier, and they are randomly colored.
- New Layer: Enter text defining the name of the layer you would like the morphs baked to.
- Add Selected Morphs to Picked: This will ass all selected morph targets to your picked head. The morphs will be named after the meshes that created them.
Delete Faces from Targets
You can load a selection of faces and then delete those same faces from any number of selected objects. All objects must share the same point index. Useful for deleting faces on multiple heads. (Crytek used this internally on the Crysis game to remove the NK heads, but allow eye animations to be played inside the Asian Nanosuit helmet.)
Mirror Eye Animation
This will mirror the procedural eye calibration animation from Left to Right or Right to Left. This animation is used to bake out eye deformation targets that are later procedurally driven by look IK.
Tech Note: Using this and many other facial tools (like non-dirty output above) requires strict adherence to the CryENGINE Facial Pipeline, these eye bones have specific names and those names are used to locate and mirror their animation.
Morph Transfer
This is used to transfer morphs between heads with unlike topologies/ point indices.