Enhancement Request - Papagayo Tab - Image Faces

[maffeirw]

Although I like the auto faces selection to add singing animation to my matrixes and pixel trees I would like to be able to develop a more personalized version using the Image Faces selection. As a result of looking into accomplishing this I've found that some enhancements may be necessary to the Image Faces selection.

I have been having problems adding mouth and eye movements when using the Image Faces selection in the Papagayo Tab. I posted a question on this and Gilrock suggested that layering might be a good way to get around the problem. So I attempted to create a Tree outline, a set of mouth shapes and a set of eye movements, in Photoshop, to see if I could get it to work. I wound up adding the entire tree background to each of the mouth shapes with a transparent band to create a space where the eyes would show through and then generated a sequence. That was successful and I wound up with a singing tree sequence for my pixel tree with a black band where the eyes should be.

No matter what I did, I couldn't generate a corresponding eye movement sequence, with the two eye movement checkboxes at the bottom and the 6 eye movement PNG files defined under Voice 1.

I decided to try it, by creating a second layer on the pixel tree and manually inserting the eye movement pictures just to see if it would work. After I went into the sequence xml file and did a search and replace for the first layer  (T_CHOICE_LayerMethod=Effect 1) to (T_CHOICE_LayerMethod=1 reveals 2), the manually inserted eyes on layer 2 worked beautifully.

https://vimeo.com/133374129
 at 34 sec you can see the gap required for the eyes on the second layer to show through

For this reason I would like to request the following changes to the Papagayo Tab - Image Faces section for each of the Voices.

1) Add the ability to set the layer effect to '1 reveals 2"  in the Face Outline and Mouth fields
2) Add the ability to generate the Face Outline, Mouths and Eyes on different layers.

I would also be happy to try any other suggestions that anyone has to accomplish independent mouth and eye movement on a pixel tree or matrix.

Thanks
Ron

[flyinverted]

Please use this link to create an enhancement request.

You will see all the others and be able to see if your request is a duplicate or already in the works.

https://github.com/smeighan/xLights/issues

[sean]

Good suggestions Ron, I plan on visiting papagayo tab in August . I will be gone most of July , I have a 9 day trip to Yellowstone with 15 Boy Scouts the last half of this month


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[maffeirw]

Good suggestions Ron, I plan on visiting papagayo tab in August .

With all the work that dkulp and Gilrock are currently doing on the Faces interface, do you still plan to work on the existing Papagayo interface or should I direct this enhancement request and a request to be able to import existing Papagayo files to them? Or both 

[dkulp]

With all the work that dkulp and Gilrock are currently doing on the Faces interface, do you still plan to work on the existing Papagayo interface or should I direct this enhancement request and a request to be able to import existing Papagayo files to them? Or both 

This is on my TODO list at some point.   On the Timing tab of the sequence settings I want to get the "Import" button to accept pgo files and import each voice as a timing track.