Sean Meighan

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Title: Coro faces - Tutorial if there is one
Post by: nzlongfellow on April 13, 2015, 03:36:40 AM

Is there a tutorial on how to setup and use coro faces?

Title: Re: Coro faces - Tutorial if there is one
Post by: mararunr on April 13, 2015, 06:11:48 AM

search Vimeo for Papagayo and Sean Meighan.  Now that being said, it's for version 3.x of Xlights and for dumb rgb setup (only about 8 channels total).  If you are using smart rgb (every pixel can change to it's own color), it's really painful  for me personally and I have yet to get it to work correctly (but I've only been in the hobby about 9 months so it may just be me - I used smart rgb so that the face could participate in other fun things like wholehouse model effects).

Title: Re: Coro faces - Tutorial if there is one
Post by: sean on April 13, 2015, 08:46:51 AM

the papgayo process in XL 4 is like this

We have not modified the code so you will create a XL 3.6 sequence. Wehn you open it, it gets converted to XL 4


There are three methods currently supported
1) autofaces. We create a face as an effect and display it on your rgb megatree or matrix
2) coro faces, You have single channels for each mouth shape. This would be for something like Holiday Coro faces
3) images faces. You provide 10 image files and we display them on Megatree or Matrix. Images could be of
Olaf singing. Each of the ten pictures would have a different mouth shape on Olaf.

No matter which of the above 3 you pick, you must first use the Papagayo program o lay out the phrases, words and syllables (phonemes) for your song.

When you are finished with Papagayo, you save it as a *.pgo file.

I do have a tutorial that describes what you do next from march 2014
https://vimeo.com/89680001

Remember that i have a self installing Papagayo on http://nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/

Also Tom Langley has written a tutorial describing the process, it is found on the same page.
I would start there as Tom is an excellent writer
http://nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/Papagayo%20to%20Nutcracker%20Step%20by%20Step%20w_Papa%20Assist.10.12.2014.pdf

Title: Re: Coro faces - Tutorial if there is one
Post by: nzlongfellow on April 14, 2015, 02:26:36 AM

Thanks everyone for the help.

Title: Re: Coro faces - Tutorial if there is one
Post by: nzlongfellow on April 17, 2015, 07:28:28 PM

In the Tom Langley tutorial, describing the process, I see on page 12 that there are more than the regular Mouths". He shows 7 more that he has created.
How are these created and added in please?