[Expression-main] Expression Facial Animation Software

[Gedalia P. <ge...@gm...>]

Hello bcc list,

   Some time in the last few years you emailed me about Expression, the
facial animation software on SourceForge. I apologize if I didn't respond to
your e-mails. Expression has somewhat stagnated as an open source project,
and I'm usually extremely busy working on graphics applications for work.

  The expression code has slowly broken down, I think has gotten a little
harder to compile every time MS upgraded visual studio. With VC++ 2005,
things got really bad, to the point that I couldn't get it to
compile/link/run.

  And yet, Expression still gets downloaded and used on a regular basis, and
there aren't really very many other such systems floating around. So I've
finally sat down and hunted down the majority of the problems. It's taken a
few days but the code is now compiling, I've checked in the code in the
expression module on sourceforge in the expression08 directory. CVS details
are at: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13769

 Currently texture maps are still broken, the NVidia image loading library
was a bit too crufty. I'm hoping a someone reading this will be willing to
fix, Devil (http://openil.sourceforge.net/) would probably integrate fairly
easily. And at least some of you seem to be grad student with some time on
your hands :-)

Please keep in mind, if you've made fixes/improvements to the core code and
don't have a commercial licence you should think about contributing the code
back to sourceforge repository.

For people who emailed me about support for new heads, nothing has really
changed, I've just recently gotten my hands on a current version of 3dstudio
max. I've been many version behind till now, but I assume updating the
content pipeline will be a non-trivial task.

-Gedalia Pasternak

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