CN-121996244-A - Control method and device for content generation, electronic equipment and storage medium

Abstract

The application relates to the technical field of computers and discloses a control method, a device, electronic equipment and a storage medium for content generation, wherein the method comprises the steps of responding to performance editing operation aiming at a controlled virtual character, and configuring the performance content of the controlled virtual character; in response to an appearance editing operation for the controlled virtual character, configuring appearance content of the controlled virtual character, the appearance content including at least one appearance section and a correspondence of the appearance section to a performance timeline, the appearance section being associated with a target appearance scheme configured as a target appearance of the controlled virtual character over a target time interval; and according to the configured performance content and appearance content, controlling the controlled virtual character to present the target appearance corresponding to the target appearance scheme and the performance content corresponding to the target time interval when the performance time is in the target time interval. The application can improve the flexibility of virtual character performance content creation and improve user creation experience, creation content quality and creation efficiency.

Inventors

• Shen Tianjia
• Tao xinyue
• Ding Menyue

Assignees

• 网易（杭州）网络有限公司

Dates

Publication Date

20260508

Application Date

20251226

Claims (20)

1. 1. A control method for content generation, characterized in that a graphical user interface is provided by a terminal device, said graphical user interface displaying at least part of a virtual scene, said virtual scene comprising controlled virtual characters, said method comprising: Configuring performance content of the controlled virtual character in response to a performance editing operation for the controlled virtual character; configuring appearance content of the controlled virtual character in response to an appearance editing operation for the controlled virtual character, wherein the appearance content comprises at least one appearance section and a corresponding relation between the appearance section and a performance time axis, and the appearance section is associated with a target appearance scheme which is configured as a target appearance of the controlled virtual character in a target time interval; and controlling the controlled virtual character to present a target appearance corresponding to the target appearance scheme and performance content corresponding to the target time interval when the performance time is in the target time interval according to the configured performance content and appearance content.
2. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the appearance content of the controlled virtual character in response to an appearance editing operation for the controlled virtual character comprises: Displaying, via the graphical user interface, an appearance editing track, a timeline of the appearance editing track being associated with a performance timeline of the controlled virtual character; At least one appearance clip is generated on the appearance editing track in response to an editing operation for the appearance editing track.
3. 3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the performance content comprises at least one performance segment and a correspondence of the performance segment to a performance timeline.
4. 4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises: Displaying a performance editing track through the graphical user interface, wherein the performance editing track is used for configuring a performance segment of the controlled virtual character, and a time axis of the performance editing track is associated with a performance time axis of the controlled virtual character; the performance fragment comprises at least one of character action, character displacement, dialogue and lens parameters.
5. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein displaying the appearance edit track via the graphical user interface comprises: Switching the performance editing track to the appearance editing track in response to a first switching operation in a state in which the graphical user interface displays the performance editing track; the displaying, via the graphical user interface, a performance editing track, comprising: and in a state that the graphical user interface displays the appearance editing track, switching the appearance editing track to the performance editing track in response to a second switching operation.
6. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: first paragraph distribution information is displayed in the graphical user interface, wherein the first paragraph distribution information is used for indicating the distribution condition of the appearance segments configured by the controlled virtual roles on the performance time axis.
7. 7. A method according to claim 3, characterized in that the method further comprises: and displaying second paragraph distribution information in the graphical user interface, wherein the second paragraph distribution information is used for indicating the distribution condition of the performance fragments configured by the controlled virtual character on the performance time axis.
8. 8. The method of claim 2, wherein generating at least one appearance clip on the appearance editing track in response to an editing operation for the appearance editing track comprises: Adding an appearance clip at a first time position of the appearance editing track in response to a first adding operation for the appearance editing track; displaying an appearance scheme selection interface, wherein the appearance scheme selection interface comprises a plurality of appearance schemes; And responding to a selection operation for a target appearance scheme in the appearance selection interface, and establishing association between the target appearance scheme and the appearance fragment.
9. 9. The method of claim 8, wherein after the associating the target appearance scheme with the appearance section, the method further comprises: controlling the appearance of the controlled virtual character in the virtual scene to be updated to the target appearance.
10. 10. The method of claim 2, wherein after the generating at least one appearance clip on the appearance editing track, the method further comprises: and adjusting the length or the position of the appearance section on the appearance editing track in response to the adjustment operation for the appearance section so as to update the duration or the starting time point of the target time interval.
11. 11. The method of claim 2, wherein the appearance editing track comprises a plurality of appearance segments arranged along a time axis, and different appearance segments correspond to different target appearance schemes; The controlling the controlled virtual character to present a target appearance corresponding to the target appearance scheme when the performance time is in the target time interval comprises the following steps: Detecting a push of the show time on the show time axis; And when the performance time enters a target time interval corresponding to a second appearance segment from a target time interval corresponding to a first appearance segment, controlling the controlled virtual character to switch from a first appearance to a second appearance, wherein the first appearance and the second appearance are respectively associated with the first appearance segment and the second appearance segment.
12. 12. The method of claim 1, wherein the target appearance scheme includes configuration data for at least one of the following attributes of the controlled avatar: Clothing, hairstyle, ornaments, skin tone, character morphology.
13. 13. The method of claim 5, wherein the first switching operation is a first touch operation of a target switching control for a first display style, the method further comprising: Responding to the first touch operation, and updating the display style of the target switching control to a second display style; The second switching operation is a second touch operation of the target switching control for the second display style.
14. 14. The method of claim 8, wherein the first add operation is a trigger operation for a first add control in the graphical user interface.
15. 15. The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprises: Adding a performance clip at a second time location of the performance editing track in response to a second adding operation for the performance editing track; displaying a performance setting interface; And in response to a setting operation for the performance setting interface, determining a target performance scheme, and establishing association between the target performance scheme and the performance fragment.
16. 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the second add operation is a trigger operation for a second add control in the graphical user interface.
17. 17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: and deleting the designated appearance segment of the controlled virtual character in response to a deletion operation for the designated appearance segment.
18. 18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: In response to an editing operation for a specified appearance section, a target appearance scheme associated with the appearance section is updated.
19. 19. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: Displaying the performance timeline of the controlled virtual character at the graphical user interface; And controlling the controlled virtual character to perform in response to the playing operation aiming at the performance time axis.
20. 20. A control apparatus for content generation, characterized in that a graphical user interface is provided by a terminal device, said graphical user interface displaying at least part of a virtual scene, said virtual scene comprising controlled virtual characters, said apparatus comprising: A performance editing module for configuring performance contents of the controlled virtual character in response to a performance editing operation for the controlled virtual character; The appearance editing module is used for responding to an appearance editing operation aiming at the controlled virtual role, and configuring appearance content of the controlled virtual role, wherein the appearance content comprises at least one appearance segment and a corresponding relation between the appearance segment and a performance time axis; And the content presentation module is used for controlling the controlled virtual character to present the target appearance corresponding to the target appearance scheme and the performance content corresponding to the target time interval when the performance time is in the target time interval according to the configured performance content and the appearance content.

Description

Control method and device for content generation, electronic equipment and storage medium Technical Field The present application relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for controlling content generation, an electronic device, and a storage medium. Background User-generated content (UGC) refers to text, pictures, audio, video, etc. content authored and released by a User on a network platform, and in the fields of games, animations, virtual reality, etc., the User can author content by a UGC editor that a virtual character performs in a specific virtual scene. However, in the related art, the performance editing function of the virtual character usually only focuses on the action, displacement, lens language and sound effect synchronization aspects of the character, and the appearance model of the character image in a single performance is usually fixed, which greatly limits the creative expression of the user and the artistic expressive force of the authored work, reduces the flexibility of the performance content authoring of the virtual character, and reduces the user authoring experience and the quality of the authored work. Disclosure of Invention The application provides a control method, a device, electronic equipment and a storage medium for content generation, which are used for solving the problem that virtual character performance content creation is not flexible enough. In a first aspect, the present application provides a control method for content generation, providing, by a terminal device, a graphical user interface, where the graphical user interface displays at least part of a virtual scene, and the virtual scene includes a controlled virtual character, and the method includes: Configuring performance content of the controlled virtual character in response to a performance editing operation for the controlled virtual character; configuring appearance content of the controlled virtual character in response to an appearance editing operation for the controlled virtual character, wherein the appearance content comprises at least one appearance section and a corresponding relation between the appearance section and a performance time axis, and the appearance section is associated with a target appearance scheme which is configured as a target appearance of the controlled virtual character in a target time interval; and controlling the controlled virtual character to present a target appearance corresponding to the target appearance scheme and performance content corresponding to the target time interval when the performance time is in the target time interval according to the configured performance content and appearance content. In a second aspect, the present application provides a control apparatus for content generation, providing, by a terminal device, a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface displaying at least part of a virtual scene, the virtual scene containing a controlled virtual character, the apparatus comprising: A performance editing module for configuring performance contents of the controlled virtual character in response to a performance editing operation for the controlled virtual character; The appearance editing module is used for responding to an appearance editing operation aiming at the controlled virtual role, and configuring appearance content of the controlled virtual role, wherein the appearance content comprises at least one appearance segment and a corresponding relation between the appearance segment and a performance time axis; And the content presentation module is used for controlling the controlled virtual character to present the target appearance corresponding to the target appearance scheme and the performance content corresponding to the target time interval when the performance time is in the target time interval according to the configured performance content and the appearance content. In a third aspect, the application provides an electronic device comprising a memory and a processor, the memory and the processor being communicatively coupled to each other, the memory having stored therein computer instructions, the processor executing the computer instructions to thereby perform a method of controlling the generation of any of the above. In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions for causing a computer to execute the control method of any one of the content generation described above. In a fifth aspect, the present application provides a computer program product comprising computer instructions for causing a computer to perform the control method of the first aspect or any one of its corresponding content generation. According to the control method, the control device, the electronic equipment and the storage medium for content generation, performance contents of the controlled virtual roles are