How to make faces for your realXtend avatar

Posted by Jani on December 7, 2008 under avatar, howto | Be the First to Comment

One of the really fun features of realXtend is the possibility to generate new realistic faces for the avatar. You can use two photos to make a face - one from front and one from side. See the video below to understand what happens:

To use your own face, you need to:

1. find or take two photos from yourself - front and side
2. download and install facegen modeller free version
3. Launch facegen and use “photofit” with your photos
4. once you are happy with the new face, save it into a .fg file
5. download and install FaceGen2Rex, launch it and follow instructions (from the readme file) where to put the resulting files (and what else to do)
6. start your rexviewer, go to a world with your avatar and select view->avatar generator
7. Select different head by using arrows at the bottom + change skin for the head

After you have success fully imported your face to realXtend, you can continue and bring your favorite celebrities to the virtual world - guess who are modeled below (note: the SI stamp is removed from the forehead when imported)! Go to downloads section to get the facegen files.

I also tried to make Martti Ahtisaari and Elvis but they did not look as good. You can get some interesting results by using drawn characters and using side photo from a different person. If this is not enough, you can always use the huge amount of tweaking possibilities of Facegen.
Have fun!