Thanks Alan. I checked it (the last 7 minutes summarize it very well) the problem seems to be the following : 1. I created (modeled the head), there are 2 cluster materials there. 2. I weighted to bones 3. I sculpted the shapes 4. I place the head under a model under a COG under a skeleton hierarchy, (head is not child but weighted to bones and is inside of the COG hierarchy 5. Finally I make the dorito setup. Every null offset is child of a Zero transform null, child of the head bone (that way if the head bone rotates, all of the nulls will also rotate; I know I should just use the global position (once they´re object clustered) for rotation also (so there´s no need to set up that extra zero transform null to pass it´s coordinates); but I set it up so I can scale and do squash stretch simply by scaling that null ///that´s another subject tho´ but I explain that part so that you can know what´s going on the rig.
Then I move my model using the COG and weights on the cloned face are left behind. IN ADDITION: All dorito approaches (videos) don´t live under a hierarchy, and also they are not transformed from bone rotation (face rotation). So, Eric is suggesting I´m doing the dorito workflow last, when it should be the first. I´ll try that as soon as I can and report progress on this thread... Long ago, I rigged that dorito approach with bones (scaled and changed it´s view options so they look like spheres) it worked just fine, but that null approach on doritos has a "je ne sais pa" on the animators side :) Cheers. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Alan Fregtman <[email protected]> wrote: > Long ago I recorded a 20m tutorial/explanation about doritos for > TDSurvival: > https://vimeo.com/68359879 > > I think it might help you. Let me know if anything is not clear. > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 2:01 AM Eric Turman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am way too tired to make a clean scene let alone a clean script, but >> this python script builds a very simple scene that has a "dorito" deforming >> a cloned mesh and being influenced by the driver mesh. The "move" null >> functions like a COG and everything plays nice: >> >> Application.CreatePrim("Sphere", "MeshSurface", "", "") >> Application.GetPrim("Null", "", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("null.Name", "bottom", "") >> Application.Translate("", 0, -4, 0, "siRelative", "siParent", "siObj", >> "siXYZ", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("bottom.null.shadow_icon", 2, "") >> Application.SetValue("bottom.null.shadow_scaleY", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("bottom.null.primary_icon", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("bottom.null.size", 3, "") >> Application.Duplicate("bottom", "", 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, "", "", "", >> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", 0) >> Application.Translate("", 0, 8, 0, "siRelative", "siParent", "siObj", >> "siXYZ", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("bottom1.Name", "top", "") >> Application.SelectObj("sphere", "", True) >> Application.Clone("", "", 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, "", "", "", "", "", "", >> "", "", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("sphere", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("sphere.Name", "driver", "") >> Application.SelectObj("sphere1", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("sphere1.Name", "clone", "") >> Application.SelectObj("driver", "", "") >> Application.ApplyFlexEnv("driver;bottom,top", "", 2) >> Application.GetPrim("Null", "", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("null.Name", "clusterConstrainedNull", "") >> Application.GetPrim("Null", "", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("null.Name", "dorito", "") >> Application.SetValue("dorito.null.primary_icon", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("dorito.null.shadow_icon", 8, "") >> Application.SetValue("dorito.null.shadow_scaleX", 0, "") >> Application.SelectObj("clusterConstrainedNull", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("clone", "", "") >> Application.ToggleVisibility("", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("clusterConstrainedNull", "", "") >> Application.ApplyCns("ObjectToCluster", "clusterConstrainedNull", >> "driver.pnt[19]", "") >> Application.SetValue("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.objclscns.tangent", >> True, "") >> Application.SetValue("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.objclscns.upvct_active", >> True, "") >> Application.SelectObj("dorito", "", "") >> Application.ParentObj("B:clusterConstrainedNull", "dorito") >> Application.SelectObj("B:clusterConstrainedNull", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("dorito", "", "") >> Application.ResetTransform("", "siObj", "siSRT", "siXYZ") >> Application.GetPrim("Null", "", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("null.Name", "move", "") >> Application.SetValue("move.null.primary_icon", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.null.shadow_icon", 2, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.null.shadow_scaleY", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.null.size", 5, "") >> Application.SelectObj("bottom", "", "") >> Application.ToggleSelection("top", "", "") >> Application.ParentObj("B:move", "bottom,top") >> Application.SelectObj("B:move", "", "") >> Application.DeselectAll() >> Application.SelectObj("bottom", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("bottom,top", "", "") >> Application.SetNeutralPose("", "siSRT", "") >> Application.SelectObj("move", "", "") >> Application.AddProp("Display Property", "", "", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorr", 0.381, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorg", 0.381, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorb", 0.381, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorr", 0.76, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorg", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorb", 0, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorr", 0.110376, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorg", 0.756, "") >> Application.SetValue("move.display.wirecolorb", 0, "") >> Application.GetPrim("Null", "", "", "") >> Application.SetValue("null.Name", "noDeform", "") >> Application.ApplyCns("Pose", "noDeform", "move", "") >> Application.SelectObj("clusterConstrainedNull", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("dorito", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("move", "", True) >> Application.SelectObj("driver", "", True) >> Application.ToggleVisibility("", "", "") >> Application.SelectObj("clone", "", "") >> Application.ToggleVisibility("", "", "") >> Application.ApplyFlexEnv("clone;noDeform,dorito", "", 2) >> Application.SetValue("clone.polymsh.cls.EnvelopWeightCls.Envelope_Weights.autoenvassign.defnbskelobj", >> 1, "") >> Application.SetValue("clone.polymsh.cls.EnvelopWeightCls.Envelope_Weights.autoenvassign.defnbskelobj", >> 2, "") >> Application.SelectObj("noDeform", "", "") >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.posz", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.posz", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.posy", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.posy", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.posx", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.posx", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.rotz", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.oriz", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.roty", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.oriy", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.rotx", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.orix", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.sclz", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.sclz", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.scly", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.scly", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("move.kine.global.sclx", "", >> "noDeform.Static_KineState.sclx", 1) >> Application.SelectObj("dorito", "", True) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.posz", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.posz", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.posy", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.posy", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.posx", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.posx", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.rotz", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.oriz", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.roty", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.oriy", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.rotx", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.orix", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.sclz", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.sclz", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.scly", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.scly", 1) >> Application.CopyPaste("clusterConstrainedNull.kine.global.sclx", "", >> "dorito.Static_KineState.sclx", 1) >> >> Cheers, >> -=Eric >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> -=T=- >> > -- Portfolio 2013 <http://be.net/3dcinetv> Cinema & TV production Video Reel <https://vimeo.com/3dcinetv/reel2012>
