The following table contains the full list of technical features supported by visage|SDK™ together with the link to the package containing each feature.
FEATURE DESCRIPTION |
PACKAGE |
| Real-time or off-line character animation driven by SAPI-5 speech synthesis, with on-the-fly rendering of the virtual character and MPEG-4 FBA bitstream output. | |
| Real-time or off-line lip sync from audio file or microphone, with on-the-fly rendering and MPEG-4 FBA output. | |
| Facial feature detection in still images. | |
| Real time or off-line head- and facial feature tracking in video (facial motion capture) driving facial animation and numerous other applications. | |
| Multiple interactive characters animated by mixed sources (files, procedural animation, tracking, TTS, lip sync etc.). | Core Features |
Full character control through standard MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation (FBA) parameters. |
Core Features |
| Powerful interfaces for plugging-in own interactive or off-line animation sources and controls. | Core Features |
| Automatic import and animation of FaceGen™ face models. | Core Features |
| Open, fully documented and extensible file format for full body virtual characters with morphing and skinning; support for integrating other file formats. | Core Features |
| Coding, decoding, merging and other operations on MPEG-4 FBA (Face and Body Animation) bitstreams. | Core Features |
| Building Animatable Face Models from morph target sets. | Core Features |
The high-level functions such as making the virtual character speak using speech synthesis or real-time lip sync are achieved easily with very few lines of code using high-level classes. At the same time, visage|SDK™ provides extremely powerful mechanisms for extending or customizing animation, deformation, rendering and file input/output at almost any level, putting great freedom and power in the hands of the developer.
Development environment
MS Visual Studio .NET 2005. Common Language Runtime compilation is supported. Other platforms and environments can be supported on demand.
Tools
visage|SDK™ includes interactive tools to help you set up the production pipeline for creating the art assets required for your application.
Creating virtual characters: visage|life™ enables fast preparation of virtual characters for real-time animation. Both full-body bone-rigged characters and head-and-shoulders models are supported. visage|life™ automatically creates the full set of facial animation morph targets for facial models created in any 3D modelling tool. For full-body models, 3ds max™ Bipeds are exported from max to visage|life, where morph targets for the face are automatically added, resulting in characters fully equipped for facial and body animation. [READ MORE]
FaceGen™ support : a tool for fully automatic import of award-winning FaceGen™ models is included as part of visage|SDK™. [READ MORE]
Creating animations: visage|interactive™ is an interactive character animation player including real time lip sync and visual text-to-speech, facial animation editing and 3ds max™ plug-ins with export/import/editing functions integrating 3ds max™ into your production pipeline. [READ MORE]
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