Audio2Face Stream Livelink
Audio2face provides the ability to Live Stream blendshape animation data from A2F to other applications.
To access Avatar Streaming - After you have setup your asset with the BlendShape solver in Audio2Face - First open Audio2Face Graph in the stage view and select the “StreamLivelink” node.
Element |
Description |
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Player |
Sets the AudioPlayer to use for streaming - you can edit this field if you have more than one audioplayer setup in your stage to specify which audio player to use for which stream. |
Activate |
Simply check this box and the app will start streaming. |
Audio Port |
Allows you to specify which audio port to use. |
Burst mode |
Allows you to specify a framerate – the animation is executed ahead of time then sent out via the stream. |
To launch the Streaming Application - Go to your installation directory (you can find this easily by going to your library in the launcher - select audio2Face version and click the settings icon - This will display the installation path of the current versions installed.
Navigate to this folder and find the file AvatarStream.bat - double click to launch.
See this Workflow Tutorial below for further instruction on how to setup Audio2Face for Avatar Streaming.
Audio2Face Avatar Stream Application Tutorial
Blendshape Streaming to External Applications
See this Workflow Tutorial on how to use Avatar Streaming to Drive blendshapes in another application.
Blendshape Streaming to External app PART 1
Blendshape Streaming to External app PART 2