@Sajjad:
Thanks! Yep, I know about those features (I guess that's what the docs
recommend for this sort of stuff??) I was just wondering if that's what
most people did nowadays when it came to having to implement corrective
shapes, especially since all the cool rigs I see these days have
everything done in ICE...
@ CSaez:
That's exactly what I'm looking for! :D Thanks! (Had to look through
your python to figure out how to use the compound though, haha. I'll
dive through it and try to figure out what you're doing under the hood
when I have some free time...it looks a bit more complicated than I
thought it would be :X
Yours sincerely,
Siew Yi Liang
On 2/16/2014 6:41 AM, Cesar Saez wrote:
Hi there,
I did an ICE reader for riglab (I'm using it to drive riglab's spaces
between behaviours for now), you can just rip the compound from here
and it should work :)
https://github.com/csaez/riglab/blob/develop/riglab/data/compounds/riglab__ConeReader.xsicompound
Here's the python module I'm using to create/manipulate them, just in
case you want to automate things a bit.
https://github.com/csaez/riglab/blob/develop/riglab/psd/reader.py
Cheers!
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Sajjad Amjad <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello and welcome to the list,
I'm not sure if I completely understand your question but you can
certainly read orientations (bone, nulls, etc.) in ICE and you can
also drive shape weights. I think it should then be possible to do
what you require. Outside of ICE, have you looked at the "Link
Deform with Orientation" command? This sits in: Animate > Deform >
Shape > Deform Keys. Docs here:
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2014/en_us/userguide/index.html?url=files/shape_anim_DeformingaShapeBasedonPosesorOrientation.htm,topicNumber=d28e240340
Hope this helps,
Sajjad
On 16 February 2014 08:42, Siew Yi Liang <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all!
First time posting on the list, so if this is too simple/inane
a question, sorry. (I did google and si-community search this
but didn't see anything on the subject so I thought I'd ask)
I know of the Deform Shape Keys function for handling pose
space deformation in XSI. However, as part of a small little
project I'm working on, I was wondering if there was a way to
emulate the workflow I use in Maya for such a task, which is
to create pose readers, that read the angle between two
joints, and then use that angle to drive a corrective
shape...in ICE.
I'm not super experienced in ICE, so I just wanted to ask if
this was advisable/possible to do via ICE? I've poked around
and bit and seen that I can get angle between two vectors, so
I'm thinking it should? (though making that into an actual ICE
poseReader compound is another matter of course)
I would like to know if any pro riggers are willing to offer
their advice on what you guys do to deal with this (short of
doing actual muscle simulation), or if there's a common
tutorial on such a subject or a specific compound made for
this that I don't know of. Also would it be faster to use
deform keys, or ICE for this sort of thing? I'm still not very
clear on what tasks should/shouldn't be done via ICE, from a
performance standpoint.
The bigger part of this question is because I am thinking of
(attempting to, at least) making a similar tool eventually in
ICE that could emulate a corrective sculpting solution similar
to Daniel S. Lima's blendshape corrective sculpt tools for
Maya: http://danielslima.com/ Which allows for intermediate
corrective sculpts to be made to the model, all in an
interactive fashion. Would be really nice to have for simple
rigs in lieu of a more elaborate muscle system.
Thank you!
--
Yours sincerely,
Siew Yi Liang
