Animaze News

Animaze presents the Engineer from Team Fortress 2!

Happy release day, folks!

The Animaze Team Fortress gang is getting bigger: set up your streams because the TEAM FORTRESS 2 ENGINEER is here!

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Animaze v 1.25.10454 presents Audio-Based Lipsync improvements and more

Happy update day, folks!

We’re excited to present exciting new additions to the Animaze app. Check out the new features and improvements that are meant to take your v-tubing to the next level:

Alternate Audio-Based Lipsync Retargeting Mode: This new approach aims to retarget audio-based data to avatar lips by using smaller, more discrete animation parts, instead of dedicated viseme poses. The result? Your avatar will have much smoother and more accurate lips animation! This is particularly helpful for webcam-based face tracking and works really well when paired with the OVRL sound tracking library. Find out more about it in the dedicated article we prepared for it.

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UI Update Rate: You now have the option to choose a lower update rate (fps) for the app UI, than the update rate (fps) of the avatar scene. Using this option will help save some CPU/GPU resources that otherwise would be used on UI. (e.g. main app at 60 fps w/ UI update rate 2, means UI is running at 30 fps). Find out how this function works in the dedicated article we have on the subject!
Record Mocap Data: You’ll now be able to record your avatar’s position, orientation, and support for clipping while recording. Clipping will create the .anmz on disk with the recording continuing until stopping it. Check out more information about it in our dedicated article: animaze.us/faq/tech/videxporter
New Camera Controls: This new option will help you change the control scheme for puppeteering, as follows:
F1 - avatar movement (default and same as before)
F2 - chase camera (same as the one from Axis Perception Neuron). Focuses the avatar’s head joint and following its movement
F3 - fly camera - freely moving around
Twitch actions: Multi-word support and support for word match on Chat Participation
Added support for Spout2: We’re making it more effective to video stream with the help of Spout2/any software that supports Spout2. The functions need to be activated from Settings > Dedicated Capture Window > Broadcast to Spout2. This also addresses the occasional dropped frames related to Game Mode capture in OBS, which was previously the only way to get the true Alpha channel to OBS.

We have also worked on the following bug fixes and improvements:

added customization controls for light projectors (see Underwater w/ Caustics scene)
tweaks audio-based lipsync retargeting: adjusted face tracking attenuation when visemes are active, removed teeth showing smiles when visemes are active and fixed left/right animations glitchy behavior when resetting visemes
fixed issues with missing workshop items from props and emotes galleries
fixed issues with stacked custom emotes (displayed textures would be wrong)
fixed crash related to Ultraleap tracker getting removed

Animaze prezents Yvonne!

Awesome folks,

Another FaceRig avatar is coming to Animaze!
Meet this sci-fi character, traveling to our time from the future :)

Animaze Presents Angry, Sigh, Disappointed, Alarm and Panic Emotes!

Happy release day, folks!

Today we come to you with a release that is filled with emotions!

Update Animaze now and let your feelings out in your streams with our new emotes: angry, sigh, disappointed, alarm and panic.

Animaze v1.25.10300 presents Custom Emotes Templates and more!

Welcome to a new update, Animaze community!

Let your emotions run free with Animaze’s new Custom Emotes Templates feature!

Get our latest update and use custom emotes templates with Animaze! Load any .png .jpeg, etc. into Animaze and use them to spice up your streams and content (we recommend using .png files since they have a transparent background and will look more seamless when they are played). Check out our article on how to do that.

We have also included the following bug fixes and improvements:

Fixed light preset glitchy interaction in scenes where light is animated through light cookies
Fixed quick scene issues when saved to default Persona
Fixed 2D props flicker that occurred when adding the same image multiple times
Fixed Personas pattern saving issue
Tweaked save and revert flow for customizations. Prompts should be more clear about the why and what the user is doing
Fixed Reset issue in General > Dedicated Capture Window section, the button was disabled by default
Fixed crash in prop galleries for avatars with no attachments slots
Fixed Simple Lipsync
Fixed glitchy interaction on Personas that use Mouse & Keyboard prop retargeting and Special Actions
Bump scale fallback for VRM imports (needs reimport) - fixes issues with avatars that have colored surfaces (e.g. hair) but import fully black
Added gallery visual cue for workshop items
Added option to increase Animaze process priority to diminish the lagging effect when the app goes to background
Added support for distinguishing cameras with the same name
Fixed a crash when loading a scene without an Environment item (fixes TV background from Steam Workshop)
added 'enable gamepad input' toggle
tweaked option names for streamer actions chat participation
Fixed persona tops disabling controller input

We are working on the following known issues:

The latest backgrounds section in the app is currently visible, but unavailable to purchase. We’ll release a fix for the issue as fas as we can.
The new emotes might have a faulty positioning on Live2D avatars. This will soon be fixed through a patch.