Need help with facial posing

[Jimbo]

Hello. For a certain picture I want to do for a friend, I need need to make the scout do a sort of closed-mouth smile (no teeth showing) and I was wondering if that was even possible. I can't seem to find any SFM tutorials on this, and I haven't seen much discussion on the topic. If you can help, please leave a comment below. Thanks :)

[R234]

Just use the smile flex. If you don't touch the lips v and mouth v flexes the mouth should remain shut.

[TheFrozenMonkeyKing]

You should use the HWM Scout. The HWM models have advanced face posing.

[Zappy]

Bonus ducks tip: Set LipUpV or whatever to something a bit downwards (maybe 0.2 or 0.3), and then LipDownV or whatever to also something a bit downwards (0.8 or 0.7, should be as far away from 0.5 as LipUpV). In my opinion, that can help, at least with sad expressions (if done the opposite way).

[Jimbo]

Vintage, how do you access the LipUpV, LipDownV, etc.? I'm not sure how to use that function. I think that those tools are in the "Lower Face" tab in the model, yes? If so, then they are not there for me. I can only see the mouth sounds (OO, AH, AW, etc.). I am using the "player\hwm\scout" model. Any more advice?

P.S. - Nice touch with the "ducks"

[Jimbo]

I also don't have a "Tongue" tab...
I'm either an idiot and I'm doing something wrong (probably) or something is wrong with my SFM

[R234]

That's because you're using the wrong model. You need to use the HWM Scout. Type HWM in the search field and you'll find it easily.

[Jimbo]

Huh, I thought I was using the HWM scout. I guess that was my screw-up. Thanks guys for the help :)