Re: Equivalent to Maya's Wrap Deformer...

[Sergio Mucino]

Thanks a lot Steve. This looks like could do the trick. However, I'm having some problems with it. It seems my target mesh is missing something, because when I try to use the compound, three of its internal nodes are in an error state. Get Self.deformerpointLocation: is not initialized Get Self.NormalPerpendicularness: is not initialized Get Self.OffsetDistance: is not initialized I only plugged a Get Data node set to "self" into its Cage Geometry input... I guess I'm missing something so the un-initialized nodes can get the data they need, but I'm not really sure what... any help is welcome. Thanks again! On 24/10/2013 5:02 PM, Steven Caron wrote: sorry to tease... start by trying the 'deform by hull' compound. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Sergio Mucino <sergio.muc...@modusfx.com> wrote: I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about Steve... :-) Sorry... Softimage noob in training here... On 24/10/2013 4:29 PM, Steven Caron wrote: it is slow to bind, but useable after you freeze the weights. i would look into an ICE solution, store the locations in modeling stack, create a deformer in animation, and freeze the modeling stack On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Sergio Mucino <sergio.muc...@modusfx.com> wrote: Okay. I can see why the Cage deformer is regarded as slow... daaaaaamnnn! That's definitely not gonna work for us (plus, there's a weird offset coming from somewhere). I'm gonna have to cluster these meshes over to the mesh they're trying to follow... ugh... On 24/10/2013 3:45 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote: My other problem is that in some parts, this mesh I'm trying to fit overlaps other meshes, so It needs to be deformer by more than one source mesh. On 24/10/2013 3:42 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote: I have a mesh that I need to have deform by another. I cannot do a GATOR weight transfer because the source mesh is being driven by an ICE tree reading and setting point positions, not by weights. I was wondering what would be the best way to achieve this. I did a little bit of research, and it seems that the Cage Deformer is regarded as somewhat slow. Any other options? Can ICE do something similar? Thanks for any help! --