Bored again these holidays but discovering bridges

[lukeo25]

I have tinkered all year, quietly in the background. I have been training GPT and other models to help me build tools, and I feel like I am on the brink of something interesting.

A while back, I started dreaming it might be possible to connect external tools, JavaScript or otherwise, to Wick Editor. But I kept running into the same wall: it felt almost impossible to talk to Wick from the outside.

Now I have finally cracked it.

I have found a bridge.

I want to start developing a set of add ons for Wick. The first one is Lip Service : a lip syncing tool similar to Papagayo, the well known companion app used by many Moho and Adobe Animate animators.

Ill keep you informed as I go.

Cheers and Happy New Year
Luke

[Flipaclip_Master]

yo if this works you’ve acheveived something HUGE! also is this like Cary’s Automatic Lip Syncing?

[robotbotters]

This?

[Flipaclip_Master]

yeah, that

[lukeo25]

No, This is not like that tool - But Wow! that is cool.
This is an extension of two *.wickobjects I created a while back that allowed you to:

1. Lipsync using Papagayo and
2. Inject external *.js into the Wick Editor.

My lip-sync asset that works with Papagayo

Hi, I’ve been mucking about with an old tool for scrubbing audio and setting mouth shapes called Papagayo. I’ve used it in the past with Moho and Blender. I thought it would make a nice aid to those looking for some way to get lip-syncing right. The tool outputs a text file that you can copy into my asset and then match your characters lips to your audio. Its a workaround I think most will find acceptable. My method is… Open Papagayo then use it to scrub your audio and find the mouthshapes ne…

Adding your own JS plugin to Wick Editor

This is a long shot… But I hope I can add a cool new feature to Wick Editor by way of an asset. The asset adds a new src for external JS libraries in the document head of the Wick Editor so that the editor itself can be extended. It’s a simple concept that should, in theory, work. I hope to add new libraries and codes that can do “things like” sprite clipping. My test asset so far can add the library to the Wick Editor and can also be exported to the HTML where it does the same. Here it shows …

The idea uses the browser and local data variables to talk to Wick Editor while in editing mode.

The external resource is my Lip Service tool - it talks to Wick Editor via the bridge - and the clip in wick is updated.

I’m also working on some others…

[Moh_Animator]

Wow, this is really interesting and cool!

[robotbotters]

Two questions,

Will it work with mobile and are the mouths customizable

[lukeo25]

Hi robotbotters, It only works with the wick editor - browser and desktop. You can customise your mouth shapes inside the wick editor as you wish.