QC assistance: Flex controllers

[Joj]

Hey. Wrapping up a project and want to give him good flex controllers, but the documentation is a bit vague, and i'm having trouble following it.

https://i.imgur.com/sT8bSD4g.png

I have four flexes i want to create one flex controller for. How do I go about creating a setup for this?

[Zappy]

With VTA flexes, provided you mean you want a "stereo" controller (independant left/right flex strength, but same flex controller) which has the down set at 0, nothing at 0.5, and the up set at 1, you should start off by using "right_BrowV" directly followed by "left_BrowV" as flex controllers, or something like that as long as "right_X" is defined right before "left_X" in the flex controller list.

Then you'd probably want to map the flex controllers to the flexes in a way that I can probably explain/show if I'd spend enough time messing around with it myself, but can't really seem to come up with on the spot right now.



With DMX flexes, again provided you want a "stereo" controller with the down set at 0, nothing at 0.5, and the up set at 1, you'd want something like this in the flex definitions:

"DmeCombinationInputControl"
{
	"id" "elementid" "c3f31a95-8025-4e9e-a853-42b38bdd0c5c"
	"name" "string" "right_BrowInV"
	"rawControlNames" "string_array" 
	[
		"RightBrowInDown",
		"RightBrowInUp"
	]
	"stereo" "bool" "0"
	"eyelid" "bool" "0"
	"wrinkleScales" "float_array" 
	[
		"-0.5",
		"2"
	]
},
"DmeCombinationInputControl"
{
	"id" "elementid" "59al3f3c-5208-e9e4-358a-c5c0ddb83b24"
	"name" "string" "left_BrowInV"
	"rawControlNames" "string_array" 
	[
		"LeftBrowInDown",
		"LeftBrowInUp"
	]
	"stereo" "bool" "0"
	"eyelid" "bool" "0"
	"wrinkleScales" "float_array" 
	[
		"-0.5",
		"2"
	]
},

(The "name" starting with "right_" and the next one starting with "left_" marks them as a "stereo" flex for Source Filmmaker, like most of Team Fortress 2's "HWM" class models' flexes.)