Creating DMC files for original characters?

Mediahead

Has anyone successfully created DMC files for characters that did not already have DMC files available? How is it done?

Thanks for your help in advance!

WendyLuvsCatz

if you can use Mimic pro
if not notepad
I have to use the latter for some Poser figures that crash Mimic
you open the default dmc file and swap out the morphs, visemes if you have them
for a cow, just mouth pen moo and side to side available for instance so you use a combination of those
some figures only have mouth open

Mediahead

Sorry Wendy, I'm not sure if I understand. If the character morphs only contain mouth open morph, would copying and pasting the dmc default viseme into the target character's cr2 work?

WendyLuvsCatz

No because it is a file telling the lipsync which morphs to assign to each phoneme and many figures have them named differently
a lot of Daz figures indeed use the default one
but figures made by others basically have morphs called what ever the creator decided to name them
can be
open mouth
mouth open
talk
speak
moo
whatever
you need to look in parameters and see what they are called
if they are under head?
Actor?
Or general?
Need to be under head for an easy edit but can be elsewhere but a bit more work
looking at several different dmc files for other figures may help
if not under head you may be able to go into edit mode in parameters select and use clone mode for head then resave as a new cr2
you would need the cr2 exporter script
or export the pose as an obj file choosing head only then reimport as a morph target on the head
I never said it was easy!

WendyLuvsCatz

Mimic pro simplifies it considerably

unfortunately DAZ has decided to pull it from the shop

WendyLuvsCatz

https://web.archive.org/web/20110702125130/http://www.daz3d.com/i/software/mimic/download?download=P
I found the old dmc files that used to be available for download but sadly you cannot download them