mcjstareatthecam - script for Daz Studio 1, 2, 3, 4 - static or animated stare-at-the cam effect - w

mCasual

ze script --> https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjstareatthecam

ze movie --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EDW5WxpT8

select the figure's head

launch the script

select the range of frames that will be processed

you may also apply a delayed reaction to the follow-movement

if your animation is a loop, and you use a delay, then you should turn on the loop option

mCasual

sorry about the 2 megs bandwidth

Shayne

thanks for this! works great!:smirk:

cwichura

I am a bit late to the game, having only now noticed this script. First, thanks for this. Using 'Point at' on the eyes doesn't always seem to work well.

Have you considered looking into hooking this up to any of the other facial features for the eyes? I did my testing with G2F, and it only rotates the eyes, whereas the Pose Control for eye movements also moves the eye lids/etc. The script resulted in some pretty freaky looking eyes depending on camera placement when the eyelids weren't tracking along... :)

mCasual

cwichura said:

I am a bit late to the game, having only now noticed this script. First, thanks for this. Using 'Point at' on the eyes doesn't always seem to work well.

Have you considered looking into hooking this up to any of the other facial features for the eyes? I did my testing with G2F, and it only rotates the eyes, whereas the Pose Control for eye movements also moves the eye lids/etc. The script resulted in some pretty freaky looking eyes depending on camera placement when the eyelids weren't tracking along... :)

it should be ready tonight

i'll make it a separate script named mcjStareAtTheCamG2F

mCasual

Aiko5 morphs and BlenderCycles render
The script makes both eyes point at the camera lend but possibly, they should look at parallel angles

this is mostly an issue for close-ups

also it seems to miss the target

--

i'll improve all this

cwichura

Yeah, this would be cross-eyed in closeups. Maybe compute the center point between the two eyes (so somewhere behind the bridge of the nose), calculate the look vector from that and then apply it to both eyes? Or add it as another option to your dialog: crosseyed/centerpoint/useleft/useright for calculating the look vector for the ultimate user flexibility... :)

And thanks for taking my suggestion about the other facial posing to heart so quickly!

mCasual

cwichura said:

Yeah, this would be cross-eyed in closeups. Maybe compute the center point between the two eyes (so somewhere behind the bridge of the nose), calculate the look vector from that and then apply it to both eyes? Or add it as another option to your dialog: crosseyed/centerpoint/useleft/useright for calculating the look vector for the ultimate user flexibility... :)

And thanks for taking my suggestion about the other facial posing to heart so quickly!

i'll project the eyes perpendicular to a plane at the location of the camera
that plane faces the figure ( its normal going from the camera to the midpoint between the eyes )

i guess the eyes were looking AT the camera and they need to point "in the direction" of the camera

mCasual

well the difference is not really noticeable

note that the figure's face is "pointing" elsewhere

so to really get the feeling she's looking at you
and not at mister Jones, you'd have to turn the
face too using my mcjLookAtTheCamera script

cwichura

How about just a head shot, though, as then the camera would be quite close (assuming you don't change its field of view to make it into a telephoto lens)? That's where having the parallel vectors would be most beneficial, I believe.

mCasual

facing the face

next render will be a close up,

mCasual

cwichura said:

How about just a head shot, though, as then the camera would be quite close (assuming you don't change its field of view to make it into a telephoto lens)? That's where having the parallel vectors would be most beneficial, I believe.

the extreme close up doesnt look excessively cross eyed

but lets see

fig 3 i made the eyes look parallel ( manually )

well i think i'll leave it like that, both eyes pointing at the camera

i'm surprised it's not more noticeable than that

.....

... though in the A/B image its detectable

mCasual

well in the end ... i will include it as an option :)

note that this is a pretty extreme close-up that may cause papparazzis to acquire a bad reputation

mCasual

notice the new "parallelize" checkbox

i'll do a few tests and post it

( and things )

mCasual

oh my wayyyyy better with a longer lens ( 180mm )
her hair could use a bit of a volumizer
on the other hand she looks a bit more like a medieval hero or something
and there just are not many hair salons in the woods

mCasual

by making the eyelids processing optional i can make this the new version

if the figure is not like Genesis 2 in refard to the eyelids, then eyelids processing will be detected and not attempted

still the stare-at functionality and the parallelize option will be operational

mCasual

** New Version **** New Version **** New Version **** New Version **

many thanks go to - cwichura - for suggesting the new Genesis eyelids feature

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjstareatthecam

tomorrow 'll update the manual to explain the 2 options though it's all explained in the forum posts preceding this one )

cwichura

Many thanks for this. Just woke up, so missed a bunch of your updates last night. I'll definitely give this a try today once my brain actually starts up...

cwichura

Just gave it a try and it seems to be working quite well. Again, thanks for this.

RAMWolff

This could be very useful. Does it work on the Gen2 males?

mCasual

RAMWolff said:

This could be very useful. Does it work on the Gen2 males?

if the eyelids close morph has the same name it may work !