SOFTIMAGE Face Robot 1.9 introduces a new Autodesk? Maya? exporter that facilitates moving completed facial rigs and animation data from Face Robot into Maya. The interoperative workflow enhances pipeline export and custom data exchange, allowing artists to integrate facial rigs created in Face Robot into pipelines built on SOFTIMAGE|XSI? software, Autodesk Maya software, or between any other professional3D animation software packages.
Okay mates, I had the chance to get the version 1.9 of Face Robot, as for the 1.8 posted by walfish THERE IS NO CRACK.
So, I’m also waiting for a crack (the crack from the 1.8 allow to run the application but make it crash as soon as the application is loaded).
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For more information about Face robot : walfish post
Official Website
http://www.softimage.com/press/releases/2008/080410_facerobot19.aspx
Face Robot 1.9 – Realistic 3D Facial Animation
Introduces Autodesk Maya exporter to offer the fastest, most complete facial animation toolset for emotive performances
MONTR?AL, Qu?bec ? April 10th 2008 ? Softimage Co., a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc., today announced the availability of its 3D character facial animation technology, SOFTIMAGE? Face Robot? 1.9. SOFTIMAGE Face Robot enables professional 3D artists to create realistic human character facial animations quickly and easily, eliminating complex technical rigging steps. SOFTIMAGE Face Robot 1.9 is a complete technology that can scale to meet the needs of facilities varying in size and scope of project or game title.
SOFTIMAGE Face Robot 1.9 introduces a new Autodesk? Maya? exporter that facilitates moving completed facial rigs and animation data from Face Robot into Maya. The interoperative workflow enhances pipeline export and custom data exchange, allowing artists to integrate facial rigs created in Face Robot into pipelines built on SOFTIMAGE|XSI? software, Autodesk Maya software, or between any other professional3D animation software packages.
SOFTIMAGE Face Robot 1.9 introduces a new export system for Autodesk Maya software that allows artists to create a shape-based version of Face Robot deformers, and move it directly into Maya. This new feature builds on the recent addition of a new 23-part training video supplement, seven ready-to-use preset head models, and seamless operation with SOFTIMAGE|XSI software and its Crosswalk, MOTOR (motion transfer), Delta Referencing and Animation Layers.
“Face Robot allows us to really take full advantage of advanced facial rigging and facial-capture requirements that our clients send us,” said Stan Miskiewicz, Co-founder and President at Black Point Studios, San Francisco. “With the added Maya-exporter feature in Face Robot 1.9, this additional time-saving feature will allow us to deliver final production to our customers faster?and in this deadline-driven industry?that means a lot.”
Rapidshare :
Oh, cool
thank you very much!!!
guys, please make a version 1.9 crack.
we are waiting :)
thanks!!
i havent finished downloading it but can the app at least be run in a trial mode then uninstalled and installed again
No, that will not work. It runs on a lic basis, if it does not find the lic it will not run. it will ask if you want to start the lic manager.
Sorry you’ll have to wait. the only trials you can get from soft are for xsi.
This site rules! you guys are great! Looking forward to crack for this one.
No there is no trial period. if you don’t have a lic then it will ask if you want to start the lic manager.
thx a lot =D
btw: v1.8 has been cracked by some great russian ppl. i have downloaded, installed and it is working fine, except i had not find enough time to test this but sample files were opening like normal.
Do you use face robot 1.8 or 1.9 ?
Thanks
S.K.
Yes i do use it. :D
Doesn’t it make you wonder that after such a long time – this very hard to find software is now available? Makes me think that Autodesk (who now own Softimage) have done this on purpose so they get major feedback from users like us?
Regardless of that superb effort guys!
BTW, FaceRobot 1.8 works perfectly with the crack.
Could you please share this crack here
Thnks alot
Hey MWK
Just look up FaceRobot V1.8 here on CGPersia….c’mon – aint that hard is it?
lol, ndefinetely not. trust me
Why wouldn’t they? The best publicity is from the ones who pirate their own software. Now expect a LOT of tutorials popping up for face robot.
Agreed, that’s what I’ve been thinking too. Now that Autodollars own it perhaps they’re trying to get it out there into the artist’s hands so that the artist’s employers will buy it. Sort of like free publicity.
awesome stuff guys. thnx.
a tutorial overview for anyone intersted: http://www.studiodaily.com/main/training/6522.html
great work !
But, Who know how to import a animated model in 3DSMAX ?
i have weird results with the crosswalk.xsi.
Fix v1.9
http://rapidshare.com/files/196825619/FR.rar.html
Fix for 1.8 worked, but crashed every 5 minutes :(
Has anyone tried 1.9?
Seems to work with 1.9 and Vista x64.
mirrors please
can any one upload this to easyshare or 4shared or badongo or even zshar. any thing other than rapidshare pleeeeeeeas
and thnx alot 4 sharing :)
I have 1.9 running and following the short movie tut. Am using a Daz character head. When selecting parts, I select face surface and the whole thing disappears…eyes, teeth, everything gone. I re-did model to match the FR examples but it still goes away. Anyone gotten any farther along than me?
Cheers, Ron
It goes away??? Does any one know what the graphics card requirements are for this thing? I’m gussing that it needs a powerful card to work. I’m using a 8800 Ultra and all looks good.
I don’t think it’s a card problem. It has something to do with the models. I can use their’s and the parts get selected fine like in the video. I exported one of their models as an obj and duplicated the object setup with the Daz model. But it still didn’t work. I am not much of a character modeler so I need to find some prebuilts that will work with FR.
Should XSI be installed beside FR, or is FR the only package needed for all my character modeling and animation needs? I’m asking because FR looks exactly like XSI (with the exception of the extra tool panel).
Since i use both, i can’t really say. all my systems have them both installrf.
any tips to import aFR model and animation in 3dsmax ? the .xsi crosswalk dont work for me .
The fix seems to throw up an Internet Explorer Error when picking the face items….So I copied the items from C:\Softimage\Face_Robot_1.9_QFE4\Addons\FaceRobot\Application\views to a temp directory and then copied the same items from C:\Softimage\Face_Robot_1.8\Addons\FaceRobot\Application\views and overwrote the items in C:\Softimage\Face_Robot_1.9_QFE4\Addons\FaceRobot\Application\views. Seems to have cured the issue…
Anyone else experience this?
Yeah i got the same issue. I will try your fix and see if it works.
Thanks for the info
I have this issue in both versions 1.8 and 1.9
Do you know why for you 1.8 worked and 1.9 did not work?
I get internet explorer script error message.
Problem when using synoptic buttons I get pop up screen
refers to: FaceStage1_SideView .html in view folder
Path:C:\Softimage\Face_Robot_1.9_QFE4\Addons\FaceRobot\Application\views
replacing files in view folder with files from views folder from 1.8 does not work…application is frozen.
This is on XP pro 64x
I might be speaking to soon but is the Maya export in here. I cant find it. Even in the plug-in manager. Its xsi 6 export on crosswalk, Just wondering if anyone has done a successful export to Maya with the default faces.
Thanks a lot for the crack, it’s working fine. I didn’t try to use the tool so far but for now it’s working.
Anyone do a Maya 2009 Import yet with 1.9?
as far as i’m concern… we’ll might have to wait for a new version of crosswork to come out. i installed crosswork 3.1 (the newest from softimage site) on my system. it can only detect maya 2008 but not 2009.
Great little addon (and that is what it is an XSI addon). After playing with it, I know why it was kept under ropes – to hide the fact a 90k price tag is a royal ripoff, I guess Zbrush should have been 400k and Maya fluids 90k. Avid lost big by this, facerobot as part of XSI Advanced and they would have competed enough to get more money from from auto. Morons.
Autodesk just had a large financial loss. They laid off 25 percent of their work force last month. My guess is someone from XSI who got fired last month decided to put this out there for revenge, or to share.
Well they deservere it, the amount of money autodesk charge for their products is insane. yo
i’m actually one of those people who will by software if its priced at a decent rate, sadly so many people are using pirated software its almost impossible to stay competitive if you do things properly.
They pirate it because the companies have made it over priced in the first place and their greed has given birth to a viscious cycle.
Autocad is or was the cash cow for Autodesk. Just speculating here but with the global recession construction has stopped on housing and commercial projects….less building less need for architects and autocad. Same thing for their other product development related softs. Companies are cutting back on R&D so less new products no need for image design etc.
From what I hear media and animation is a pretty small market…mainly because the main clients are the studios who can afford their expensive stuff.
Btw, does anyone know how to export correctly to 3ds Max? I used File/Crosswalk/Export to Max. I can import the mesh and the animation but everything is distorted.
I got this from another site. Hope it’s really a crack.
Author: codebreak
Rapidshare links:
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/197254206/FaceRobot_1.9_QFE4_Win32.part1.rar
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/197258324/FaceRobot_1.9_QFE4_Win32.part2.rar
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/197260597/FaceRobot_1.9_QFE4_Win32.part3.rar
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/197265504/FaceRobot_1.9_QFE4_Win32.part4.rar
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/197265340/FaceRobot_1.9_QFE4_Win32.part5.rar
Fix:
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/197251252/FR9.rar
Enjoy Again CBK!
This installed and when it came up it didn’t ask for a licensing server. Seems to work.
Anyone know of tutorials?
Only one tut that I know of:
http://aimediaserver.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=facerobot/facerobot.swf&width=800&height=680
anione have blastcode retail version pleas? tanks in advance
Is this only for animating faces or can it be used for animating other bodyparts like hands or g*nitals (e.g. a pen*s)?
This only for faces. You need Softimage Hand Job and Dick Bot with the addon Ball Breaker for that…
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has anyone got this to work on XP Pro 64-bit?
Yes I have it working on XP Pro 64…at least mostly anyway. Whats your problem…what is or is not happining?
i installed FaceRobot and replaced FR.exe with the fix. i chose ‘ask me later’ when windows asked me whether to ‘block’ or ‘unblock’ the application.
it just never finish initialising.
i just tried both ‘block’ and ‘unblock’ options but no exciting result :(
Uninstall the program using this:
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/116642297/youruninstaler.rar
It will totally clean out all the little junk usually left behind. Then re-install. Be sure to click ‘unblock’, only click it once. Once you screw it up it has to be reinstalled.
thanks for the tips, but i still haven’t got it to work.
the link you provided doesn’t work, so i found a copy of youruninstaller myself. it couldn’t uninstall FaceRobot because it couldn’t find some files. i uninstalled in control panel and used youruninstaller to do clean up.
i clicked ‘unblock’ the first time i was asked, still no luck. did it just worked for you straight away?
Yes, it worked straight away…don’t know what else to tell you…
Sorry.
i guess i just have to set up a dual boot with xp pro 32 bit and 64 bit.
I WILL BE USING FACE ROBOT!!!
I hope that works for you. I am running all sorts of 32 bit progs on my XP Pro 64 bit system…could be something very simple but I bet the dual boot will solve the problem. Good luck!
Hi guys,
Does it work with 3ds Max or not?
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best way to get stuff over into 3dsmax is to bake out the mesh as an mdd pointcache file. import your model into max as an obj, then apply the pointcache mod and load the file from FR.
crosswalk is extremley unstable. this release of FR is a fixed exe file and isnt as stable as the som license system. it crashes every 5-10 mins, no matter what system you are running.
good luck
thank you matt ! but is there a point cache import in max2009 ?
yup. its a mesh modifier – not an import option.
import your head from faceroot/xsi in its starting postion/state as an obj.
apply a point cache modifier from the modiifier list for the object.
navigate to where you saved out the animation data/deforamtion from FR as an MDD file. and voila.
okay Matt, i try it but in the point oven modifier,when i clic on load, there is no mdd import format. only : xml, pc2, pts
once again, thank you so much for your help.
the FR.exe patch does not seem to be stable, it freezes up every 10mins or so on Vista x64/x86 SP1.
Hi Guys, I have been looking through the 1.9 program and noticed that the crosswalk applliction is ver2.6 there is a new version out there which is 3.11. when i looked inside C:\Softimage\Crosswalk2.6\Plugins in the Maya converter it only supports upto Maya 2008! No support for Maya 2009 i think?, so this is most likely reason i cant get it to run in Maya 2009 anyone else have the same problem?
Has anyone got crosswalk 3.11?
Crosswalk is a free plugin you can just download at xsi site. Better yet it is an auto installer. It will look for all the applictions on your computer such as Max, Maya, Face Robot, and XSI and auto install the latest version into that program. You also have the option to custom install and pick the application you want to use crosswalk with and it will auto install to those…..Not complicated at all .
yo Yo
sorry, forgot to mention you need the POINTOVEN plugin for max to be able to read the MDD format. most apps have this built in – but of course, max does not. you can get it at a modesnt price from the offical place here
http://www.ef9.com/ef9/PO.htm
though this is once seat license, so only once machine would be able to read the MDD file. a way around this would be to add the PC2 pointcache ontop of the pointoven modifier and rebake the verts out.
then you can load the PC2 data when/whereever.
ive never found a cracked release of pointoven. but its a really handy/powerful plug
Thank you Matt ! it s really nice to help me(us) ! have a good day.
Hey try this one for crosswalk 3.11
http://www.softimage.com/downloads/Crosswalk/
Face Robot 1.9 is working very well thanks. No crashes and I have been using it for hours and hours at a time or days. It is really simple to use once you read the manual and do a few tests. I watch the studio Daily Tuotials and that speeded up the manulual reading process. Some very good results in a short space of time. This program will save teams so much time. I want my boss to purchae this
Hi,
Great, where is the “Pick up object” object please ?
Not having the same luck. I did a dual boot with windows vista to use FR. FR is running on Vista 64x and FR will still freeze up it does not crash just freezes my computer for no good reason.
Pick up object? What do yo mean? Look for a menu thats on the right then you see object, polygon etc ,, click object? or is that now what you want?
Hi SeriousXSI,
What I mean is that I cannot see the “Pick objects” button in the right hand side of the UI. There are “Library”, “Tools” menu but no “Type” or the mentioned button as the “scan” button.
What should I do to make it displayed ?
Check my replies
hi Harry,
I have the same problem. Mr.serious XSI ,could you fix it .
It is now worthless to me without the “Pick Objects”button.
Hi Tom,
I’ve tried version 1.8. Same problem.
Without this feature, these copies are useless.
Tom and Harry ..Can you see the Select / Transform Constrain on the right?
If you can then look for a greyish rouned rectangle shape between the transform controls. Its hard to see its like an unnamed tab.. Click that and it should expand… Post a screen shot of your screen if your still ahving problems..
Tom and Harry,
Ff you can not see the Select / Transform / Constrain menus on the right then maybe you have the screen fully open, Look to the far right like where the scroll bar would be in a browser.. Then look for the greyish rouned rectangles shapes I mentioned (around the center of the screen on the right) Like center of a scroll bar sort of.. Click to Expand… Failing that post a screen shot and I ‘ll see if I can help..
FR is running on WinXP 32 (on core2 quad, 2GB ram) and freeze up every 5-10 minutes it does not crash just freezes my computer.
I think same situation as Mark’s and Cheetah.
Any ideas how to fix it?