Argh! Faceposer dying! Created 16 years ago2007-05-07 11:51:25 UTC by Playbus

This has been annoying me lately, especially as I have a lot of work to do with Faceposer as soon as possible. Gah.

Everything is still working except the following:

1) Lip movements no longer playing in the 3D view
2) It's laggy as hell, at doing everything!

NOTE: Although lip movements don't play, everything else DOES. Gestures, movements, the lot. It all plays fine, except the lip movement.

And the wierd thing is, that if I ignore the problem and make a scene anyway, it works fine in-game!

But this is still annoying, because it's a bitch having to recompile a map to test the lip sync, and even harder to compensate for problems in Faceposer.

I've tried the following:

1. I deleted the SourceSDK .GCF file and re-downloaded the whole SDK. (I was soo pissed when that didn't fix it)

2. I've changed every option I can find in the SDK and faceposer, just in case it helped (I just ended up making myself lots of work to put it all back again)

3. Refreshed the SDK content and Game Configs as per the SDK menu.

4. Reinstalled the Microsoft Speech SDK

But nooo! I cannot see my lip movements in the Faceposer 3D view! And Faceposer is laggy as hell (it even lags when a dialogue box should come up saying "Are you sure?")

Anyone got any ideas before I trash my house in frustration?

Although Face Poser related have you tried deleting the clientsomething.blob thing.

No ... I hadn't tried that .... I couldn't see it helping .... but what the hell though ..... deletes file ..... reboots Steam....

Nah it didn't help.

I've submitted a support ticket to Valve......not holding my breath though....

/edit I fixed it!! All the tabs at the bottom right of Faceposer, the different models. I didn't realise that they represent a model which is loaded whether or not you are actually using it. I'd added a load to the list, thinking not that they were being "loaded" (by loaded I mean active in the 3D window) but just they were available to switch between.

So I un-loaded all the models and just added back one of them -- and now the lip sync works again.

Woooooohooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lag's gone too.

Makes sense, I suppose slaps own head

So it seems that too many loaded models makes Faceposer go ARGH!

Time to update that support ticket

Another job well done thanks to Habboi!