Lip Sync - Spine and Papagayo

• animation state
• events
• papagoya lip-sync
• spine plugin support for preview with audio

Demo https://youtu.be/WtlpPBiawa8 Sample Project http://kwiksher.com/daily/blog/lipSync/LipSync.zip

Lip Sync with Papagayo

Papagayo with Spine Export is available from here.

• https://github.com/SteamNGears/Papagayo

Papagayo 2.0b1 with Spine Export is a fork of LostMoho/Papagayo that adds an exporter for Spine. You need to Qt Creator to build the app. Qt Open Source is here.

• https://info.qt.io/download-qt-for-application-development

Papagayo

• You can choose Spine from Export

• Open JSON button to select your json data of Spine

• Select the bone to attache the mouth

• Import the json data with the mouse and save the project

• MouthShape Slot and Events are there.

• Mouth bone is centered. You need to translate it to correct position.

• Now you can check the mouth animation

Spine plugin support

you can preview animation with audio. You need to start java program to play your audio file and it communicates with Spine timeline.

• http://ja.esotericsoftware.com/forum/Spine-Plugin-in-Support-5859?p=27032

Start Spine from the command line with --server 4567.

• Windows: Spine.exe --server 4567
• Mac: /Applications/Spine/Spine.app/Contents/MacOS/Spine --server 4567
• Linux: ./Spine.sh --server 4567

Download and run the play.jar file:

• http://esotericsoftware.com/files/play.jar
• java -cp play.jar Play 4567 path/to/music.wav

You will need to have Java installed. When you click Play button on Spine timeline, the animation and aduio are played synclonised.

Export json and atlas

export json and atlas files for Kwik project folder - build4/assets/sprites

Kwik

there are 3 layers * dialog shows the event data that the animation of Spine sends. Each word is dispatched from Papagoya animation. * face will be replaced as Spine animation * bg

Layer replaement > text

dialog layer is replaced as text

Project And Pages > Add Audio

lame.wav from Papagoya tutorial's spoken audio file is added to kwik

• Controls > Loop: times = 1

Project And Pages > add Action

Creates the acitions that will be exected when Spine's animation state sends onStart, onEnd events.

action name is state_start and plays audio lame.wav

action name is state_end and stops the audio playing lame.wav

Custom the file

\build4\components\page01\face_image_.lua to be enabled for importing the spine data.

• create page01 folder under \build4\custom\components\
• copy face_image_.lua to \build4\custom\components\page01
• then edit the three functions. Add extlib.spine library, replace display.newImageRect for spine:newImageRect, add event functions.

local spine = require("extlib.spine").new("face")

function _M:localPos(UI)
  local sceneGroup  = UI.scene.view
  local layer       = UI.layer

    layer.face = spine:newImageRect( _K.imgDir..imagePath, imageWidth, imageHeight)

    layer.face.imagePath = imagePath
    layer.face.x = mX
    layer.face.y = mY
    layer.face.alpha = oriAlpha
    layer.face.oldAlpha = oriAlpha
    layer.face.blendMode = ""
    layer.face.oriX = layer.face.x
    layer.face.oriY = layer.face.y
    layer.face.oriXs = layer.face.xScale
    layer.face.oriYs = layer.face.yScale
    layer.face.name = "face"
    sceneGroup.face = layer.face
    sceneGroup:insert( layer.face)

  layer.face.state.onStart = function(entry)
    UI.animName  = entry.animation.name
    UI.scene:dispatchEvent({name = "action_state_start", entry=entry })
  end

  layer.face.state.onInterrupt = function(entry)
    UI.animName  = entry.animation.name
    UI.scene:dispatchEvent({name = "action_state_interrupt", entry=entry })
  end

  layer.face.state.onEnd = function (entry)
    UI.animName  = entry.animation.name
    UI.scene:dispatchEvent({name = "action_state_end", entry=entry })
  end

  layer.face.state.onComplete = function (entry)
    UI.animName  = entry.animation.name
    UI.scene:dispatchEvent({name = "action_state_complete", entry=entry })
  end

  layer.face.state.onDispose = function (entry)
    UI.animName  = entry.animation.name
    UI.scene:dispatchEvent({name = "action_state_dispose", entry=entry })
  end

  layer.face.state.onEvent = function (entry, event)
    UI.animName  = entry.animation.name
    UI.eventName = event.data.name
    layer.dialog.text = layer.dialog.text .." "..event.data.name
    UI.scene:dispatchEvent({name = "action_state_event", entry=entry })
  end

end

#

• layer.dialog.text is updated onEvent function as seen above
• dialog text starts empty and setAnimationByName is added at _M:allListeners func
• animation track 0 and "animation" with looping true

function _M:allListeners(UI)
  local sceneGroup  = UI.scene.view
  local layer       = UI.layer

  layer.dialog.text = ""
  layer.face.state:setAnimationByName(0, "Mojo Jojo", false)

end

#

dipose is added in _M:toDispose func

function _M:toDispose(UI)
  local sceneGroup  = UI.scene.view
  local layer       = UI.layer

  layer.face:dispose()

end

Publish

press Publish on Kwik Panel to enable the custom file injected to the built codes.