A more robust mouth rigging would be nice. For Example, having the ability to set an anchor point so it's easier to line up different mouth elements if you have your mouth as a separate layer from the body.
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Other than just more expressions hotkeys, I think the feature that would be the most useful to the most amount of vtubers would be controller based eyetracking. Where the model looks in the direction a controller's right joystick (which is generally used for camera in games) is being held, like when holding left they look right. But when the stick is let go, it slowly resets back to looking forward. This would emulate the behavior of someone with live2d facetracking really well if put in place.
HONK is a fantastic program! I dunno if anyone else has suggested this yet, but a background color that's is just transparent would be a huge help. There are some parts of my avatar that go off the model and don't have a solid back, so with color as the background to key out in OBS those parts end up disappearing.
Just started using the program and loving how robust it is so far despite it's simplicity, but there's a few features I would like to see tweaked or added if possible that would make it so much more *chef's kiss*
Pain points
- Better layer manager. As it stands, I'm running out of layers, and I've had to resort to changing the names of the files since I noticed that they auto sort alphabetically. More layers would be nice too, but when I realize I need to adjust everything to accommodate something I've added, it would be nice to be able to simply insert the asset where I want it, rather than having to manually adjust every single other asset around it up or down layers.
-Animated gif support. I was using animated gifs in Veodotube to support other expressions and movements outside of what either program can do, and I've been struggling to find workarounds so I can still include some of the work I'd done before. In general this would allow people to include far more complex animations and movements that I bet are probably just beyond the program.
-UI adjustments. I would LOVE some kind of ability to simply type in the exact value I want on all the sliders. Most of my avatar has between 2-4 points of cursor tracking on each asset to simulate a little more movement and depth and it's is downright painful trying to hit those settings via a slider on a scale of 0-500.
Things I would just like
-Ability to set blink frequency and randomization, PER asset. I'm currently working around the lack of animated gif support by putting secondary frames on the blink. ie: I have a pair of hands holding a controller that presses buttons on the blink, and a pair of eyes that cry tears on the blink, and they would both look better if it could happen more frequently, but I would also like the ability to tweak the blink frequency in general for the eyes too, not just as a workaround for lack of animated gif support.
- Cuter/smoother bounce. Current bounce (and rotate on speech) movements are ... kind of janky. Would love if they were smoother, or had the ability to adjust the smoothness. ie: easing out of the movement so it looks a little more natural, bobbing instead of jerking.
-Preset or customizable bounce/movements NOT on speech, PER asset. (or other preset movement types) Sort of an addendum to the above. My character has a tail which I've currently got some rotate on speech and some cursor tracking to try to give it a little sway and it would look way better smoother, but it would also be nice of it just sort of bobbed on it's own without needing input from me. I think this would look great for characters that also have things floating around them, like idk magic orbs, or little floating robot pals etc, so I'm sure it has some other utility.
Also this is something I've just noticed and not sure if it can be fixed, but cursor tracking stops working in games that take over the cursor and turn it in to camera control, such as Genshin Impact.
Hi!
Kind of a long thread, so excuse me if this has already been suggested, but I thought it would be nice if HONK had a Noice Gate filter. It's fairly hard to find a sweet spot where the lip-syncing works and background noise doesn't trigger it, but even then, when there's notice coming from outside, it's impossible to prevent false positives. A Noice Gate would go a long way and would be easy enough to add to the UI by incorporating a second "knob" to the Mic Gain bar and graying out the section of the bar beneath it.
Thanks for the incredible software, and keep it up!
Toodles.
I realize this is quite an ask, but is there any hope or possibility of a native Mac version in the future? I’m pretty sure I could run it under emulation with something like Crossover but it’s always a little nicer to have things run natively if possible, especially while streaming and stuff. I wish I could give it a try before buying just to see how well it works that way. Still, this looks like a really neat tool and I’m excited to see what you do with it over time!
Would it be possible to add an option that lets the user select what channel the avatar reacts to? Like, say I've got two microphones plugged into a mixer and I've got one hard panned to the left channel and the other to the right, and in HONK I have the mixer set as my mic. I'd like to be able to set it so that the avatar only reacts to one of those channels.
A feature to set the process priority would be fantastic! As it stands right now, when my cpu usage is high such as when playing certain games, HONK tends to lag. The ability to set the process priority to high like you can in OBS would help mitigate this.
Animated GIFs would be fantastic as well, but I know it's already something that you have already mentioned and other people have recommended as well. Otherwise absolutely fantastic piece of software and I thank you for all your work!
Properly support all possible F-Keys please.
It's okay to have support for combinations as we already do but CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F1-F12 is pretty much used by a lot of apps.
F-Keys go up to F24 though, even if they're not on most keyboards they can be mapped using any number of utilities as well as by a streamdeck.
Veadotube and OBS support those keys and the clash rate with default system- and application shortcuts is close to zero.
there is a lot of things mentioned here already and so far I am really enjoying honk. but I have run into a problem when it comes to keying out the background. my character has blue hair and wears yellow... a green background takes from the yellow, blue and magenta from the blue, red from the skin, black from the outline obviously and white from the eye and teeth whites... is there maybe a possibility to just have a transparent background like other programs? since obs allows for transparency I feel like that would open a lot more space for colour creativity!
and other that that a bit of variety in blinking would be cool. like a 1- 1,2 - 1 blink sequence already gives a bit of variety and it doesnt look so dead and robot like :)
I feel stupid for asking this, it's not much & not much of a problem but is there a chance for a preview button? I know I could just minimize everything & test stuff that way but when I started HONK up for the first time I was confused why there was no animation.
I mistook the eye calibration for a preview button twice & messed around with things cause I didn't know what to do. It was a coincidence that I realized I should try having the program be unfocused when I realized I could see the animation now.(I was looking through the documents just in case & either missed it or could find were it said to test it that way)
Can I suggest an idea that may or may not work (I haven't tested the iris tracking yet so forgive me if this doesn't work)? Try making the sclera completely transparent, then put white BEHIND the skin/body/etc to act as a sclera, then have the iris sandwiched between the white background and your model. It's not true clipping, but I think in theory it would work?
Three things I'd like:
- More options when it comes to the bouncing when speaking, ontop of smoother bounce movement options. It's jarring
- Ability to rename layers
- Transparency option for window. It's possible, should be pretty easy, it's nice, and It allows me to not have to modify colours to fit some chroma/luma key restrictions.