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[QUOTE="merryoncherry, post: 132197, member: 37249"] Oh, I see you figured it out, but I was mostly ready to give you some more tips so here they are anyway. Honestly when doing imports I spend a good bit of time touching up faces if the sequencer has done anything interesting. Seems inescapable. The first approach is to let the singing prop color clash with the sequence color. This is my preferred approach and I've noticed a lot of people do this. I default each one to a different color. They stand out from the show that way, but sure, sometimes it looks silly/tacky. (Then again, singing bulb faces.) The second approach is to put effects on the outlines or other parts of the model that overlay on top of the face effect, see #1 below. Some of the sequencers do this, I recall particularly in the one sequence the singer is given outline colors to match Ariel in the Little Mermaid by applying effects to the outline and base. See #1 below... perhaps in conjunction with unchecking "show outline", effects are mapped / placed on the submodels of the singing prop. (Double click the prop to expand the submodels) [ATTACH type="full"]22991[/ATTACH] The third approach is to override the colors. See #2 in the image. For reasons I may not fully appreciate, this is the least common method. I also have some props with multicolor state outlines for singing, and that's not gonna work well here. This is the approach you noted - uncheck "force custom colors" on a copy of the face definition, pick that one in the "Face Definition" field, and then the color palette controls different parts of the face. (A 4th approach - rarest of all - make a special face definition just for the sequence. I do have Dave + Alvin, Simon, Theodore for the quartets, works well in 2 songs.) One other set of tips I'd give you, if you haven't already found it, is for bulk edit. Some vendors make a lot of face effects, even though with "suppress when not singing" you hardly need it these days. For that, use bulk edit. 1. Be sure no timing tracks are selected. Clear the buttons. 2. Drag around the effects to bulk edit. There has to be more than one 3. Right click the thing to edit, such as "Face Definition" 4. Click Bulk Edit. From that point, it is generally intuitive. But it has to be compatible with the other options on the first selected effect. (Like be sure you bulk edit and check "show outline" before you'd pick "Use state as outline".) [ATTACH type="full"]22992[/ATTACH] Hope these tips help you later, even if you don't need them right now. [/QUOTE]
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