MMD shapekey 'standard translations'
hanetzer opened this issue · 2 comments
Ello again. So having since learned more about how avatars are handled generally, I've
learned that many of the facial blend shapes tend to use standard japanese names from
the software MMD. Given this, one could prepare a sort of rosetta stone of these blend
shapes ahead of time for use in the translation function.
Hi There,
People can now provide translations for cats via this repo: https://github.com/Yusarina/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-translations
You can add translations to the https://github.com/Yusarina/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-translations/blob/3.6-4.0-translations/dictionary.json via a pull request. (I will pull any translations to the 4.1 branch at a later date).
I am planning to have Cats either download the latest translations on startup from the repo or atleast have a button where the user can download them, I haven't decided what the best way is just yet.
The dictionary.json is Cats internal dictionary which cats will pull from before it resorts to google translate.
I haven't announce this yet as I want to figure out how I going to do this within cats first before I update the readme and etc here and announce it. But once I do I will update this issue.
You can now contribute to the internal dictionary on this repo: https://github.com/Yusarina/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-translations/tree/Welcome
This is it to be exact: https://github.com/Yusarina/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial-translations/blob/3.6-4.0-translations/dictionary.json
This means you can add blend shapes to the dictionary which cats will use to translate them (If nothing exists cats will then use google translate).
This dictionary is updated with every release of cats or when the user hits download translations inside of cats.
With that I will consider this closed as this is the best I can do with the limited time I have, feel free to contribute to the internal dictionary on the other repo, if you don't like this solution feel free to re-open so we can discuss further, however a larger addition to cats may take some time as I have other projects I work on as well.