New workflow brings improved 1-click SALSA setup to MCS (Morph3D) characters, introduces new default shape groups that produce great looking… View More
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We're very excited to announce the release of our new SALSA add-on for UMA DCS. This support package is for the UMA 2.5+ Dynamic Character System (DCS) released May 21, 2017. *NOTE: RandomEyes 3D normally supports unlimited custom BlendShapes used for facial expression; however, since UMA DCS characters have no BlendShapes, this feature is unavailable on UMA DCS characters. Instead, we provide custom facial… View More
UPDATE: 2018-08-06: v0.6.0 updated to fix obsolete Unity API calls. Amplitude for WebGL provides easy access to audio analysis functions for amplitude and frequency data. Being a web-based toolset, it makes sense that our customers would want to access web-based audio files to feed to Amplitude. In fact, we have already had a couple of questions presented in our… View More
After the launch of the IBM Watson Unity SDK, we were curious about how the text-to-speech service might work with SALSA to deliver real-time text-to-speech-based lip-sync. This can already be achieved with the wonderful RT-Voice asset from Crosstales, but we take pride in SALSA working with as many solutions as possible to make our customers… View More
BeatDetect is a free add-on for Amplitude that allows you to easily create amplitude level event triggers. You can use these events to respond to sounds or music on the WebGL platform. Amplitude (Required) https://crazyminnowstudio.com/unity-3d/amplitude-webgl/ 04/10/2018 - (1.1.1) Fixed component menu listing.… View More
TextMesh Pro is Awesome! Localization is Awesome! [UPDATE 2017-11-09: the UnityPackage file (version 1.0.1) has been released to correct a typo bug in the LocalizationResponder.cs script.] This asset set will demonstrate one method for making TextMesh Pro components responsive to language changes in your app/game. In other words,… View More
Use SALSA and Photon Voice for networked, multi-player character lip-synchronization! Tested with Unity 5.5, SALSA 1.4.0, and Photon Voice 1.8 (2017-01-31): ~ Real-Time Lip-Sync with networked voice transmission ~ What's cooler than real-time character lip-sync animations? Networked voice transmissions with real-time lip-sync! This blog post will… View More