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I've also noticed the cage deform creates huge file sizes when there are
a lot of verticies on both the deformed and deforming geometries. Not a
show stopper. Just a consideration.
-brad
todd akita wrote:
> Envelope update is almost always pretty fast, cage deform though
> has a pretty substantial performance penalty. It works, but slowly.
> And editing it is not much fun.
>
> -T
>
> Brad Friedman wrote:
>
>> ooh.... thats sneaky. since it works by world space comparison... oooh.
>>
>> /me puts that in his bag of tricks
>>
>> -brad
>>
>> todd akita wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Byron -
>>>
>>> I've also had good luck using the isner copy weights scripts,
>>> they work quite well for say, buttons on a shirt, a piece of
>>> stitching on a sleeve that's been modeled separately, or a
>>> pocket on the chest that doesn't match the topology of
>>> the shirt undreneath. If it's not high resolution enough, you
>>> may want to upres the geo you will be stealing weights from
>>> before you perform the function but in fact this method works
>>> well enough where if I've got a large amount of rigging to do
>>> I've started building a separate one-piece model to do the
>>> gross envelope weighting on (something which will smooth
>>> nicely at the shoulders, hips, neck, etc) and then use that as
>>> a starting point for everything else.
>>>
>>> good luck
>>>
>>> -T
>>>
>>>
>>> Steven Caron wrote:
>>>
>>>> cage deform?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:55:49 -0500, Byron Nash <Byron@(protected)> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on a character that has clothes. Since the clothes are
>>>>> mostly
>>>>> tight, I've decided to forego cloth sims and just envelope the
>>>>> clothes with
>>>>> the mesh. The only problem I'm running into is the clothing and
>>>>> the body
>>>>> mesh intersect at various points of movement. Is there any way to
>>>>> get them
>>>>> to not intersect other than endless weight tweaking? -Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Byron Nash
>>>>> Sr.3D Artist
>>>>> Snap5 www.snap5.tv
>>>>> 704-561-7764
>>>>>
>>>>>
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