Faces

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The Faces effect is used by xLights to generate singing and talking face effects. It is used and placed on the sequencer as part of the Papagayo import functionality, if the target in xLights is a Coro face.

It is also used within xLights functionality to generate Singing Faces. The use of this effect is described in the section describing Singing Faces.

Option/Settings	Description
Phoneme	Sets Face to specific mouth position.
Timing Track	Sets Timing Track to use for Lyrics/Phonemes
Face Definition	Sets Face Definition to use. These are setup in the model preference under the 'Faces' option.
Eyes	Sets if the Eyes are 'Open', 'Close', 'Automatic', or '(off)'. 'Automatic' blinks the eye based on frequency. '(off)' disables the eye.
Eye Blink Frequency	Set the speed of Automatic Eye Blinking
Show Outline	Show outline if defined in the Face Definition.
Suppress Shimmer	Skip '-shimmer' tags in Timing Tracks lyrics.
Use State as outline	Use a State Definition for 'coloring' the Outline
Suppress when not singing	If set, the Face will disappear if not lyrics are present, in the timing track.
Lead In/Out Frames	Number of frames the face will appear before the lyrics start/end, Only available if 'Suppress when not singing' is enabled.
Fade during lead in/out	Fade the face in and out during the Lead in/out frames, Only available if 'Suppress when not singing' is enabled.
Transparent Black	Sets the black pixels transparent to show effects on lower layers.

Color Pallet

The color pallet is used to determine the color of the signing face. If force custom colors is enabled in the model's face definition, the custom colors takes precedence and the color pallet will not change the effects color.

Pallet Color	Face Nodes
1st Pallet Color	Mouth Nodes
2nd Pallet Color	Eyes Open/Close Nodes
3rd Pallet Color	Outline Nodes
4th Pallet Color	Outline2 Nodes
5th Pallet Color	Eyes Open2/Close2 Nodes
6th Pallet Color	Eyes Open3/Close3 Nodes

Singing Faces