MB-Lab Release for Blender 2.80

Has anyone had success with Facecap and MBlab? I am starting to use animation nodes to try to transfer the facial mocap data between the Facecap mesh and MBlab, but I am running into problems where certain shape keys do not seem to exist in MBlabs 82 shape keys.

What I am running into is that Facecap (which uses the iphoneX shapekeys) has mouth shapes that are reliant on each side of the face, frown L and frown R, MBlab does not have this from what I can tell.

I love that there are 82 shape keys giving us more options, but I am starting to feel like it’s overkill and needs to be simplified. Additionally some of them seem to be duplicates, there are several different types of smiles, several different ways of closing the eyes, but one frown, and the frown controls both sides of the face.

Facecap Shape keys

Summary

Basis
browInnerUp
browDown_L
browDown_R
browOuterUp_L
browOuterUp_R
eyeLookUp_L
eyeLookUp_R
eyeLookDown_L
eyeLookDown_R
eyeLookIn_L
eyeLookIn_R
eyeLookOut_L
eyeLookOut_R
eyeBlink_L
eyeBlink_R
eyeSquint_L
eyeSquint_R
eyeWide_L
eyeWide_R
cheekPuff
cheekSquint_L
cheekSquint_R
noseSneer_L
noseSneer_R
jawOpen
jawForward
jawLeft
jawRight
mouthFunnel
mouthPucker
mouthLeft
mouthRight
mouthRollUpper
mouthRollLower
mouthShrugUpper
mouthShrugLower
mouthClose
mouthSmile_L
mouthSmile_R
mouthFrown_L
mouthFrown_R
mouthDimple_L
mouthDimple_R
mouthUpperUp_L
mouthUpperUp_R
mouthLowerDown_L
mouthLowerDown_R
mouthPress_L
mouthPress_R
mouthStretch_L
mouthStretch_R

MBLab Shape Keys

Summary

basis
Expressions_IDHumans_max
Expressions_abdomExpansion_max
Expressions_abdomExpansion_min
Expressions_browOutVertL_max
Expressions_browOutVertL_min
Expressions_browOutVertR_max
Expressions_browOutVertR_min
Expressions_browSqueezeL_max
Expressions_browSqueezeL_min
Expressions_browSqueezeR_max
Expressions_browSqueezeR_min
Expressions_browsMidVert_max
Expressions_browsMidVert_min
Expressions_cheekSneerL_max
Expressions_cheekSneerR_max
Expressions_chestExpansion_max
Expressions_chestExpansion_min
Expressions_deglutition_max
Expressions_deglutition_min
Expressions_eyeClosedL_max
Expressions_eyeClosedL_min
Expressions_eyeClosedPressureL_max
Expressions_eyeClosedPressureL_min
Expressions_eyeClosedPressureR_max
Expressions_eyeClosedPressureR_min
Expressions_eyeClosedR_max
Expressions_eyeClosedR_min
Expressions_eyeSquintL_max
Expressions_eyeSquintL_min
Expressions_eyeSquintR_max
Expressions_eyeSquintR_min
Expressions_eyesHoriz_max
Expressions_eyesHoriz_min
Expressions_eyesVert_max
Expressions_eyesVert_min
Expressions_jawHoriz_max
Expressions_jawHoriz_min
Expressions_jawOut_max
Expressions_jawOut_min
Expressions_mouthBite_max
Expressions_mouthBite_min
Expressions_mouthChew_max
Expressions_mouthChew_min
Expressions_mouthClosed_max
Expressions_mouthClosed_min
Expressions_mouthHoriz_max
Expressions_mouthHoriz_min
Expressions_mouthInflated_max
Expressions_mouthInflated_min
Expressions_mouthLowerOut_max
Expressions_mouthLowerOut_min
Expressions_mouthOpenAggr_max
Expressions_mouthOpenAggr_min
Expressions_mouthOpenHalf_max
Expressions_mouthOpenLarge_max
Expressions_mouthOpenLarge_min
Expressions_mouthOpenO_max
Expressions_mouthOpenO_min
Expressions_mouthOpenTeethClosed_max
Expressions_mouthOpenTeethClosed_min
Expressions_mouthOpen_max
Expressions_mouthOpen_min
Expressions_mouthSmileL_max
Expressions_mouthSmileOpen2_max
Expressions_mouthSmileOpen2_min
Expressions_mouthSmileOpen_max
Expressions_mouthSmileOpen_min
Expressions_mouthSmileR_max
Expressions_mouthSmile_max
Expressions_mouthSmile_min
Expressions_nostrilsExpansion_max
Expressions_nostrilsExpansion_min
Expressions_pupilsDilatation_max
Expressions_pupilsDilatation_min
Expressions_tongueHoriz_max
Expressions_tongueHoriz_min
Expressions_tongueOutPressure_max
Expressions_tongueOut_max
Expressions_tongueOut_min
Expressions_tongueTipUp_max
Expressions_tongueVert_max
Expressions_tongueVert_min

I love MBLab, and a lot of the features are pretty awesome which is why I have not switched to a different character creation tool, but I am starting to reach road blocks in using it for animation with Mocap.

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