Driven shape keys

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Ok. I have been tryin to learn how to make driven shape keys but I never got it to work even though I followed this tutorial. http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartIX/Driven_Shape_Keys When I move the bones in “pose”-mode nothing happens with the mesh and no shape keys are effected.

Here is my blend file so you might see what I have been doin wrong here.

http://82.182.188.70/files/driven_shape.blend

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Ok, two things :

  1. All your shapes are the same. You need to select the Plane and then choose each shape in the shape panel, then edit the plane into the corresponding shape. E.g. for the Basis shape, the “mouth” should be open. For the “smile” shape, the corners of the mouth need to be pulled up.

  2. Your driver bones should be using the Z axis, not the Y axis. To see this, select a bone, turn on the 3d transform manipulator and change the transform orientation to Normal.

Mike

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uh? I have/ had different shapes, a smile and a closed mouth, atleast before I posted here. I will open the file again and check if there was a bug or something.

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Thanks, when I restarted blender I noticed alot of things weren’t actually there. It works now :slight_smile: