Blender add-on for Brekel Face Pro 2

[Gregory Bond]

Hi Brekel Face Pro 2 and Blender users,

I wanted to let you know that I wrote an add-on for Blender that simplifies working with Brekel Face Pro 2. The add-on creates drivers for face mesh shape-keys so that they are driven by an imported Brekel Face Pro 2 BVH file. See the comments at the top of the add-on for details on downloading, installing, and using the add-on.

Here's the link to the add-on hosted at GitHub:

https://github.com/gwbond/blender/blob/master/Brekel-Kinect-Face-Pro-2-Drivers-Add-On/animation_create_brekel_drivers.py

Greg.

[Brekel]

Wow, that is very very cool Gregory.

And thank you very much on behalf of the whole community for the generosity of sharing this on GitHub!!

Would you mind if I help promote your link a bit on my website and social media streams?

[Gregory Bond]

Be my guest!

Now that I know Blender works well with Pro Face 2, I'm going to order the Kinect v2 and, of course, Pro Face 2 :-)

[Brekel]

Didn't realize you didn't own a license yet!

I'll send you a personal discount coupon code as a thank you for sharing your hard work.

[paul robinson]

Hi gregory, how do you get this to work

[Michael Thoenes]

Gregory- Great job with the addon - it works well - thanks. 

Paul, Follow the instructions at the top of the script. 

# INSTALLATION: Install this add-on the usual way via User Preferences

# Addons "Install from File". Select the file you downloaded in the

# previous step. Once installed, this add-on is listed as "Create

# Brekel Kinect Face Pro 2 Drivers" in the "Animation" category.

# USAGE: Before using this add-on, import a Brekel Kinect Fact Pro 2

# BVH motion capture file. This will create an armature object. To use

# this add-on, in object mode, select a mesh object with shape keys

# you want to create Brekel drivers for (or shift-select multiple mesh

# objects with shape keys you want to create drivers for). Then,

# shift-select the armature object i.e., the last object to select

# should be the armature. Finally, to create the drivers invoke this

# add-on via the operator search dialog (press spacebar and search for

# "Create Brekel Drivers"). Drivers will only be created for shape

# keys whose name matches an armature bone name. Drivers will not be

# created for shape keys that already have drivers.