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How to incorporate elf ear poses into blendshapes in your vroid model!
I spent ages looking for tutorials and figuring this out so you don't have to!
Tools/Programs required
-Blender
-Unity
-UniVRM
-Vroid Studio
So this is kinda easy to write up due to some tutorials I found but they don’t do EXACTLY what I wanted so I kinda…mashed them together. Enjoy your elves.
1. After you have your model, use this tutorial to separate the ear mesh from the head and add bones but stop once the bones are poseable, that’s all you need. I recommend 2-4 bones per ear.
2. Follow this tutorial all the way through to assign blendshapes to your bones. I recommend doing it twice, once for up, once for down, and renaming the “armature” blendshape slider to “ear up” and “ear down”
I added ear movement on the following blendshapes
-Surprise (all the way up)
-Joy (half down)
-Angry (partially down)
-Blink (just down enough to look like a twitch, v cute)
-Sorrow (all the way down)
-Fun (partially up)
[pic examples under the cut]
This is Nova
...and all his "basic" expressions
Expressions were done with the basic vroid sliders + unity sliders + HANAtool extras + the ones we just created
Apart from HANAtool all this is FREE so enjoy! (and HANAtool is like $10 (technically 1000 yen))
Note I AM NOT AN EXPERT and this is my 1st model + 1st time in blender so my results may have flaws, but I was still able to do this
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