Lip sync'ing

[Mikeyfish90210]

Hi, i was wondering if anyone out there knew of any scripts or programs or what ever that translates things you write down in notepad i.e. the sentance "Hi im mike" into a lip syncronization to the words??

[SharkDog]

goto this:

http://www.ofpec.com/editors/browse.php?category=1_2&start=25

look at the bottom of list for Popurheadoff's Wave2Lip Tutorial #1 and #2

Those are good and should help you out.

[Mikeyfish90210]

Well ok that would work i guess if i was converting wavtolip files, i just want a script that would make his mouth moved as words imprinted themselves on the screen!!! Does anyone have like a list of lip patterns etc???

[SharkDog]

Wouldn't that look a litle stupid?

[Mikeyfish90210]

Its better than having to buy a new microphone so i can just make his mouth move. Anyone got a clue then???

[Kaliyuga]

 we've told you how to do it..

you use wav2lip to make the lips match whatever text/sound is played

thats the way its done.  

you could always find a mission that someone has done properly with Wav2Lip take the info to use in your mission..

 of course then your mission/cutscene will look like one of those bad english dubs of kung-fu movies where the mouth never matches what the guy is saying.  
:toocool:

[General Barron]

I'm going to assume here that Mikeyfish90210 is talking about making a mission with NO voice sounds, but with characters moving their lips anyway when they are "talking". Think of it like a silent movie, not a bad kung-fu movie. I've seen this in other missions, and it looks MUCH better than just having a guy sit there and "talk" with his mouth closed.

Now, to answer your question:

  First, you need a wave sound to make into a lip file. Go here: http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/ You can copy and paste your text, and it will spit out a wave file for you.
  Next, take that wave file and convert it into a lip file using wave2lip.
  Now, you can only get a character to move his lips using the "say" command; which requires a sound file. Make a very small, blank ogg file for each of your "voices". Now just write it to your description.ext and walla! You're done.

  I assumed that you know how to get voices and lip files to work normally. If you don't, then you should read the tutorials that have been suggested by SharkDog.