Hi, I have bean trying to get face expression embeded into animations, and I just cant do it
Can anyone out there help please.

I have tryed to add the text key

ENUM: Face Oh 100 0.5 2.5 0.2

And nothing.

From what I gather that is not how facial anims are played. I could be entirely wrong....

They are not called by simple text keys.

The face anims are played by targeting the HeadAnims and HeadAnims:0 objects as a controlled blocks.

if you can inject those into the controlled blocks array, and set the controller type to NiGeomMorpherController and the Variable 2 to call the face anim, ie "Aah" then you maybe in business...

Inspect the meshes\characters\_male\idleanims\testfacialanims.kf to see what I'm talking about.

good luck

Ok I found out how to do it.
Becouse it was/is hard I thought i should post a how to....

Things you will need.

Blender or Max. <- To make the anim in the first place.
NifScope. <- To hack the face anim into your .kf
FAFF <- A template found at http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6709
Time. <- I dont need to explain do I?

Step 1:
Make your anim and export your .KF, this is beond the scope of this how to. But i am assuming you have called it New.KF

Step 2:
Open a copy of FAFF's fa01.kf.
Open a copy of your new.kf in a new nifscope.
In fa01 scrol down the block list untill you find number 86 (It should be a NiBoolInterpolator ) , Right click on it, Block -> copy branch.
In New.KF right click on NiControllerSequence, Block -> Past Branch.
Repete with number 87 (NiFloatInterpolator) .
In fa01 click the NiControllerSequence, and find in the block detales Controlled Blocks,Expand it, and find the one with a value of HeadAnims, expand HeadAnims and find Node Name, right click on Node name and pick Edit String Index, Copy(Ctr c) the Vale HeadAnims.
In New.kf click the NiControllerSequence and in the block detales find Num Controlled Blocks, dubble click the value and rase it buy two, right click on Controlled Blocks in the block detales and pick Array->update.
Expand Controlled Blocks and find the two blank ones at the end, Expand the first one, dubble click in the value of Interpolator and enter the number next to the pasted NiBoolInterpolator (Mine is 148 yours will be diffarant), copy across all of the rest of the values from fa01's HeadAnims's block,note-ably:Priority,
Node Name,Controller Type.
Do the same for the seckond new Controlled Block , but this time for the value of Interpolator enter the number next to the pasted NiFloatInterpolator(Mine is 149 yours will be diffarant,but should be higher buy 1 the the last number),And agean copy the data from fa01's HeadAnims:0 Controlled Block.
This time though when you get to Variable 2, Pick any face anim type from this list...
http://niftools.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1982&p=15378&hilit=face#p15378
Allmost done :wink_smile:

All that remains is to set the times on when to use the anim and how much...
Expand your pasted NiFloatInterpolator, and click on the NiFloatData that is the clild,down in the block detales expand data, keys, and each key.
mess with the Time and Value to match your needs. Time is when in the anim that the efect takes place, and value is how much with 1 being full power.
Its worth noting that you can change the number of keys buy clicking in the value of Num Keys and hitting right click on the keys ,Array -> update.

Step 3.
Save you work....

Done. Try it in game and enjoy.
Hope this helps.

This also does not work I checked it out some time ago and there is no way to target facial anims within .kfs -> the only way is through dialog/facegen options.

Wrong. I have it up and runing or I would not of posted.

I can prove it if I send you a link.

Cant post it here becouse of gamesas Rules

JoshNZ666@hotmail.com

Sweet. :foodndrink:

would it be too much to ask that you basically copy/paste that mini tutorial into the article section of F3Nexus? That will likely be helpful to have your method documented somewhere else thats easier to find. this forum will gobble this thread eventually as well.... and maybe in about 12months it'll be culled

Ok done.
Here is the link.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/articles/article.php?id=253