Hey, so I’ve seen some threads asking how to do a moving mouth with overlays, and I’m here to show you my way of moving mouth with 2 mouths or 4 mouths.
If this is your first time with moving mouths, I advise you to start with the 2 mouths code.
It’s actually just changing opacity really fast and putting short pauses.
With 4 mouths, MOUTH1 should be your base mouth, like a closed mouth when characters aren’t talking.
With 2 mouths
So first, you will need to create two mouth overlays in different shapes
They could be edited:
Or drawn:
Please don’t steal them; this is just an example.
They can be any other shape.
Now here comes the code:
&overlay MOUTH1 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH1 opacity 0 in 0 AND overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH1 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH1 opacity 0 in 0 AND overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH1 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH1 opacity 0 in 0 AND overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2
With 4 mouths
Same with previous, but this time you need to create 4 mouth overlays edited or drawn
This code is a little longer and more complicated because it contains more mouths and uses pauses.
&overlay MOUTH1 opacity 0 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH4 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 1 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH4 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 0 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH4 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 1 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH4 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 0 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH4 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 1 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH4 opacity 0 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOUTH3 opacity 0 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN pause for 0.07 THEN overlay MOUTH2 opacity 0 in 0.2 AND overlay MOUTH1 opacity 1 in 0.2
Personally, I like to code 4 mouths cause it looks more realistic.
I hope this helped