sharing shape clips 2005-05-04 - By Martin Barrette
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Hi Juan,
The shape animation is in two parts. The geometry information, stored
within the shape key (this information is topology specific)and the animation
(Shape Action + Shape Clip).
Since 4.0 you can export the mixer of a model with shape actions + shape clips
and re-import it on another model and it will connect to the shape key of the
same name if it exists. This allow you to share animation within different
models or even within different resolution of the same ref-model.
However this will not re-create shape keys as there's no guarantee that the
geometry are topologically equivalent and even if so, there's no guarantee that
the order of point indices is the same.
If you have 2 geometry with the same topology, or close enough you can use
ApplyShapeKey by using the plotted shape. Then you can either import the mixer
of the other model or re-instantiate clips for it.
Hope this helps.
Martin
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf
Of Juan Brockhaus
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:58 AM
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Subject: sharing shape clips
hi list,
probably this was asked before.
I have a plotted-shape-animated object.
I want to use this shape-animation on a lot of different other objects, but
with a different timing.
If I want to share the shape-clip, xsi always copies the shape-keys to a
cluster of the copied objects.
I heard (or probably dreamed...), that in xsi 4.2 this should be fixed, so
that you can really 'share' shape-clips. You only have one object with
plotted shapes-keys and the others just refer to those.
Did I miss something?
Cheers,
Juan
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