Closed Eyes

I know we have a "Products Wanted". But I have posted there with only one reply, so I try it here since it's more busy.

I'm not looking for a FacialExpressions HUD. I have 2-3 of those, including a combiner. And you who suggested MystiTool inworld. I crashed and lost your name, so I couldn't say thanks. I have a Mysti too, but no "closed eyes" option.

I am looking for a gadget that can close my eyes. I know that my avatar blinks, but it's hard to take a pic just in the right second.

I have no idea if it can be done. I know that there's sleeping poses I can buy. They have closed eyes. But I am more talking about a tool that keep the eyes closed. This would make it easy to take pictures with closed eyes while I stand or sit.

Imagine a couple pose, the woman leaning back against the man who kisses her neck. Closed eyes would fit very well in a pose like that.

I don't know about keeping them closed, but have you tried the slomo option for animations? That might give you time to 'catch' a blink.

Advanced > Character > Slow Motion Animations

Thanks Ann. I've tried to use that, but as I see it, it work best on animated dances and poses. I really can't see any noticeable difference in facial movements?

I dont know if this idea helps Marianne but have you ever tried 'capturing video' of your face (with some utility like FRAPS) and then finding an individual frame to export in which your eyes are closed ??

Yeah, they didn't provide a morph that only closes the eyes. Blinking would do it, but it isn't under script control and it looks like they hard coded the timing.

The closest is to loop express_disdain, but this has the side effect of giving your avatar Elvis lip. that might work fine for sleeping though.

You can mess around with overlaying other facial expressions to kill the Elvis lip, but the results are typically weird, a neutral mouth doesn't want to come out of this. One workaround might be to take two shots, one with express_disdain running and one without, stack 'em in PS, and gouge out the open eyes.

(((Forgive the digression, but I couldn't help picturing the reactions of people who've never heard of SL, to that paragraph. )))

All that violence does sound kind of weird and exciting, doesn't it? LL should feed some of that to the tabloids and see where they run with it.

From your fingertips to the LL Marketing execs' eyes.....

i'd really really love if LL had an eye-closed face state that was relaxed.. like when the avatar blinks. Like "prolong blink" or.. "stay blinking". i'm not sure why they can't let you "pause" on a blink, or "hold" the blink longer... this is something i've wanted in SL for so long because all the other options (face animators and things) just don't leave one with a peaceful "sleeping" closed eyed state.

Sometimes i'm jealous of furries, some of whom can sleep.

But anyway, for photos i just always try to get lucky and catch a blink.. which it seems like you've already been trying.

I am sort of amazed with all the brilliant sculpty, texture, script and animation wizard here they haven't done transparent face sculpt with eyes textured in certain way that can close and open by command but the transparency might run into a issue with hair.
Also another issue might be eye lashes showing through sculpty or prim.
It would have to sit over the eyes only and match the skin tone.