【Eyes Animator】- Your cool solution for eyes movement animation!

Eyes Animator is component which will animate eye spheres to behave like real
or to behave more cartoon like, it's up to you!
Eye movement is a small detail thing, but when it suddenly appear in your project, you can feel that it was truly missing. Component have intuitive settings which you can use to design your custom movement for eyes.

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Main features:
● Includes interactive demo scenes
● Simulating eyes' point of interest lag for more realism, which effect you can adjust using simple slider
● Random eyes movement simulation, with different presets:
From calm through nervous to psychical cues - movement of eyes when someone is lying / trying to remember sound etc.
● Eyelids blinking animation support
● Implementation to cooperate with Look Animator
● Quickly setup component with custom inspector
● Easily set clamp ranges with inspector visualization

 

Updated to version 1.0.2:
● Added icon on the right inside hierarchy to easily find objects with attached EyesAnimator
● Added component menu so you will find Eyes Animator components also under "Add Component" > "FImpossible Games" > "Eyes Animator" and the same for rest of my packages
● Added 'Additional Eyelids Motion' for FEyesAnimatorBlinking component, so you can controll eyelids to open them a little when character is looking up and closing a bit when looking down - it gives more natural effect and more range for clamping
● Added 'LagStiffness' variable for some more controll over lag effect

 

Awesome assets!
Building characters with your assets is much fun

any plans for a creature face creator? with procedural animations like eating, licking a target, sniffing, ...

 

Thank you

Right now there isn't plans for face creator, but maybe something in future, stuff like SPORE would be great to create.

 

indeed, looking forward to whatever you release next

 

Hi,

This is a great asset!

The eyeanimator component works really well but I have a small problem when trying to use the EyeAnimatorBlinking component. I can't get access to the parameters because the GUI in the inspector window seems corrupted. Please see the 2 attached picture to see the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

 

Updated to version 1.0.5, Just inspector window stuff:
- Some fixes for inspector window
- "Eyelids" list now will be automatically filled with objects from "Upper Eyelids" and "Lower Eyelids" lists
- Added button "Focus On Close Rotations" to help adjusting eyelids close rotations

 

I haven't had the chance to try it but thanks for the update.

 

Updated to version 1.0.6 : Link To Asset Store
- Fixes for inspector window
- Now 'Auto Find' will not only try to find head bone but also eye bones and eyelids
- Variable 'RootFixer' is removed because new rotation fixing algorithm is working universally

 

Wow another great update! the update "auto find" feature will be really useful.

Thanks!

 

Hello,

I got both LookAnimator and EyeAnimator, is there anything specific I need to do to use the integration or I just have to add both of the components? Also how can we setup blinking using blendshapes instead of bones? We arent using face bones. Also for some reason I cant get the right eye tracking they are always rotated to the side by a large margin and I tried messing with the correction values but if I get it right at one side if I approach the NPC from the other the eyes are rotated even far to the side. Im using a character from CC3 but also have custom ones that I will try later.

On the other side LookAnimatorWEyes is working properly if I disable LookAnimator and EyeAnimator.

 

There is file "Look Animator Implementation.txt" in Eyes Animator directory, with link to google drive with package, unity asset store not allows to put .unitypackage files which needs other packages unfortunately.
There will be example scene of this implementation and new component, you add Look Animator to object and new eyes animator from package to object. New eyes animator component will sync target etc. with look animator.

About eye issue, there probably are strange source bone rotations going on and manual correction will be needed.
Please write on my mail and we can find way to fix it in clean way.

Lately I was doing implementation for blinking with blendshapes, we can talk more about it in mail, but I will put blendshapes feature on task list for new version then.

 

Okay I will contact you, please let me know about the blendshapes I have a deadline by the end of the month... And if it cant be done until then I will have to write my own.

 

Version with blendshapes support is submitted for review right now

 

@FimpossibleCreations You have not only the best assets but your support is simply outstanding!

 

Where is the blinking in V2? I bought this only because of blinking. Otherwise it is totally useless!

 

Sorry, there was some issue with gui for additional modules (present unity 2019)
Blinking is now built inside one component, this parameters are under tab "Additional Modules"
(open directory .../Eyes Animator/Packages for converter of old blinking component to Eyes Animator V2)
I will send you patch package for fixing gui issue.

 

Thank you! And it seems you already uploaded a new version including the fix.

 

This asset is lovely, it adds a fantastic effect. Thank you so much for sharing your work!
I am unfortunately a bit stuck, I have eyelash objects that also use blendshapes separate from my eyelid/Head object. Is there a way to make multiple meshes with blendshapes work with blinking?

 

As I understand you already use "Blinking Mode: Blendshapes" but you need more blendshapes to be animated simultaneously.
I checked it and it would need some time to make component support multiple blend shapes, there are many small aspects like "Additional lid motion", separated lists of data for every mesh etc. which are making it hard to simply add more blend shaped meshes.

As walkaround you can use this small script I prepared, you have to setup one main eyes animator then add more but set in them only blendshapes (after game start they will be disabled and update only blinking) And put them inside "Multi Blends Syncer" script in attacehement (inside also update for one script of eyes animator)
As far as I tested it work, if you have more info PM or mail

 

Hello , I also have the corrupted GUI-Windows as already mentioned in look-animator and also in eyes-animator. I am using Unity 2020.1.9f1. Is there anything I can do for a quick fix ? The tool itself works just awesome.
Thank you so much.
Best regards, David.

 

Thank you for reporting this but can you describe when it is happening?
I checked error line from log and it's like impossible for null error to occur
First error from console log might be helpful.

 

Hi! I see there is a way to Blink with Blendshapes. Do you have a way to Look Left & Look Right via Blendshapes?

 

Any guide for integration with UMA? The eyes look weird when I apply the look animator.

 

Sorry for so late reply!
No, it would require custom coding implementation, here I prepared some code which gets x and y values for look rotation angles with the random movement offsets giving -1 to 1 values (like -1 is looking left 1 is looking right)
and you can use this values to drive blend shapes with custom code:

Spoiler: CustomLook.cs

Code (CSharp):

1. using FIMSpace.FEyes;
2. using UnityEngine;
3.  
4. public class CustomLook : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     public FEyesAnimator EyesAnim; // Reference to eyes animator to access computed look at data
7.     private Vector3 lookDir;
8.  
9.     // public just for debug - see values to drive blendshapes with
10.     public float lookLeftRight; // -1 to 1
11.     public float lookUpDown; // -1 to 1
12.  
13.     void Update()
14.     {
15.         // Move world look rotation to local rotation
16.         Quaternion localLookRot = Quaternion.Inverse(EyesAnim.BaseTransform.rotation) * Quaternion.Euler(EyesAnim.DeltaVectorClamped);
17.  
18.         // Define look vector
19.         lookDir = localLookRot * Vector3.forward;
20.  
21.         lookLeftRight = lookDir.x;
22.         lookUpDown = lookDir.y;
23.  
24.         // then blendShape_LookLeftRight.Amount = lookLeftRight; ...
25.     }
26.  
27.     private void OnDrawGizmos()
28.     {
29.         if (EyesAnim == null) return;
30.         if (EyesAnim.HeadReference == null) return;
31.  
32.         // Just for some debug
33.         Gizmos.matrix = EyesAnim.BaseTransform.localToWorldMatrix;
34.  
35.         Vector3 headPos = EyesAnim.BaseTransform.InverseTransformPoint(EyesAnim.HeadReference.position);
36.         headPos.y += 0.25f;
37.  
38.         Gizmos.DrawRay(headPos, Vector3.right * lookDir.x * 0.2f);
39.         Gizmos.DrawRay(headPos, Vector3.up * lookDir.y * 0.2f);
40.  
41.         Gizmos.matrix = Matrix4x4.identity;
42.     }
43. }
44.  

You will need to update and import the package to get the "EyesAnim.DeltaVectorClamped" variable.

Is there a chance for small repro scene?
Something like: enter playmode -> see the issue
You can contact me via e-mail with it.

 

Ahh thank you so much!!

 

No worries, I figured it out. The auto find was adding more objects for eyes than needed. With only the eye globe it is looking good now. Thanks!

 

Hello.

Nice asset indeed. Just a suggestion when using the blinking module. It seems that the blinking frequency is constant. Would it be possible to have a minimum and maximum blinking frequency? I mean, making the eyes blink randomly with a frequency between x and y seconds.

Regards.

 

Hi! I'm loving this package but have one issue...

We're using it on non-humanoid creature eyes (see screenshot), which are often set on the sides of the heads. That means the Clamp Angle that works well for one eye will not work for the other on Move / Follow / Random Movement motions -- so for example on the lizard in the screenshot, if the left eye looks 60 degrees to the left, the right eye will be rolling inside of the skull, which looks bad.

Currently the only way to "solve" this is to put a separate eye animator on each eye, but then the eyes won't follow each other on the Random Movement setting.Would it be possible to add a toggle feature to allow separate Clamp Angle settings per eye when they're sharing an eye animator?

 

Ok I prepared quick update which gives individual clamping possibility
It's ready to download and to import on the asset store. (Individual Clamping toggle in the Clamping Settings)
Please let me know if it works properly with your models. (I noticed there may be troubles with eye random movement in some cases since the rotations are interpreted differently if clamp ranges are different)

 

That's amazing (and amazingly fast), thank you!

 

This is great, but i can't find anything about this in your documentation. Would you be abler to explain or show more in detail about the eyelid bones required to accomplish this effect?

I also noticed the same section has blendshapes mode, is this for also another option for looking up and down? If so, care to explain the requirements?

Thanks!

 

You can achieve this if your model has additional eyelid bones or blendshapes for it. (try entering on some fields in the inspector view for tooltips)
The demo scene with challenger head is showing additional eyelids bones approach (the model had such bones built in).
Additional eyelid motion Blendshapes option probably will be removed, since it turned out it can be done using just extra blendshape in eyes setup, with assigned smaller value shape blendshape ranges.
You also can make blendshapes, which are automatically applying such effect on max look ranges, then you don't even need to bother about this feature.

 

I'm using blend shapes to blink and it looks excellent. I found the BlendInEyesAnimation() and BlendOutEyesAnimation() functions, which help me to control the animation in some moments. Still, my character needs to sleep and wake up and the blend shapes of the eyelids are activated instantly with this function. A function to blend the closing and other for the opening of the eyes would be handy.