Mr. Bobble is driving me crazy

ancich · September 2025

Has anyone had any luck at all getting Mr. Bobble figure to lipsync to an audio file? I have tried Mimic Live and Anilip2 but it turns out Mr. Bobble is no a standard figure like Genesis3 Male. He has his own viseme set, but if I have to hand key each viseme for a 20 minute dialog, I will go nuts.

wsterdan · September 2025

ancich said:

Has anyone had any luck at all getting Mr. Bobble figure to lipsync to an audio file? I have tried Mimic Live and Anilip2 but it turns out Mr. Bobble is no a standard figure like Genesis3 Male. He has his own viseme set, but if I have to hand key each viseme for a 20 minute dialog, I will go nuts.

I only use the 32-bit Mimic option in DAZ Studio, but Mimic Live should use the standard MImic .dmc files for characters; you can duplicate an existing .dmc file and rename it for Mr. Bobble and edit it to use his visemes.

The .dmc file is a standard text file and it has settings for eyes, eyebrows, visemes and more.

When you open the .dmc file, it looks like this:

********
gesture   Raise Left Eyebrow
   min   0.000000
   max   1.000000
   channeldef
       head:1
       eCTRLBrowUp-DownL
       1.000000
gesture   Raise Right Eyebrow
   min   0.000000
   max   1.000000
   channeldef
       head:1
       eCTRLBrowUp-DownR
       1.000000
gesture   Blink Left
   min   0.000000
   max   1.000000
   channeldef
       head:1
       eCTRLEyesClosedL
       1.00000000
gesture   Blink Right
   min   0.000000
   max   1.000000
   channeldef
       head:1
       eCTRLEyesClosedR
       1.00000000

... and so on.

The first gesture listed is

gesture Raise Left Eyebrow

and the parameter for it is " eCTRLBrowUp-DownL"

For Mr. Bobble, it's:

PBMBrowDownLeft

So replace " eCTRLBrowUp-DownL" with "PBMBrowDownLeft" and Mimic (and hopefully Mimic Live) now knows how to bring the left brow down. Do this for all the features you want to use.

To confirm you're grabbing the correct parameters, you can load a Genesis 8 character (use older Genesis characters from Genesis 8 down; Genesis 8.1 and higher use FACS-styled parameters and won't line up as nicely) and bring up the paramter you want to use (I'll show the one for lowering the left brow), hit the Paramter gear and you'll see the Parameter window and the paramter name "eCTRLBrowUp-DownL".