Softbody and bones ? 2004-04-11 - By Roberto Sarlenga
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Thanks a lot for all the help! It's working perfectly!
Cheers,
Rob.
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Ben Kilgore" <ben@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 00:53
Subject: Re: Softbody and bones ?
> On the original question, I forgot to mention:
>
> The main problem I encountered with this is that you can only run one
> softbody sim properly per mesh, because in order for it to work, the mesh
> has to be a child of the bony you want the simulation to reference for
> inetrial data. XSI doesn't care if you run more than one simulation, but
> the mesh can't be a child of more than one deformer, so you can't use this
> technique to have a skin that has a jiggly butt AND a jiggly neck.
>
> Also I tried combining this with cage deforms derived from the character
> mesh (so I could run more than one simulation), but it got fantastically
> heavy in a heartbeat, so I abandoned that route.
>
> Worth trying instead is running the simulation on a hidden, fairly light
> object per bone, and constraining objects to clusters in those objects,
then
> weighting your mesh to the constrained objects. Not true soft bodies on
> your mesh, but it's quick, it works, and it uses a decent physical model
at
> its core (unlike soft constraints).
>
> http://www.semiote.com/ogre/gabefatfront.mov
>
> Ben
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: "Jamie" <edesignersinc@(protected)>
> To: <XSI@(protected)>
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 3:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Softbody and bones ?
>
>
> > have a look on www.xsifiles.com
> >
> > there are a few dynamics / bones tut's there...
> >
> > Jamie McDonnell
> > -- -- Original Message -- --
> > From: "Ben Kilgore" <ben@(protected)>
> > To: <XSI@(protected)>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:50 AM
> > Subject: Re: Softbody and bones ?
> >
> >
> > > Not sure about that one, but I found the passage on this in the maunal
> > quite
> > > illuminating: it's pretty simple stuff.
> > >
> > > Ben
> > >
> > > -- -- Original Message -- --
> > > From: "Roberto Sarlenga" <roberto_sarlenga@(protected)>
> > > To: <XSI@(protected)>
> > > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:54 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Softbody and bones ?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Which is the tutorial for this?
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > > Rob, from the past
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- -- Original Message -- --
> > > > From: "Sam Cuttriss" <s.cuttriss@(protected)>
> > > > To: <XSI@(protected)>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 19:47
> > > > Subject: RE: Softbody and bones ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > indeed, have a look at the tuts on softimage site.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.softimage.com/Education/XSI/SelfPacedLearning/tutorials/default.h
> > > > tm
> > > > > glorious
> > > > > _sam
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -- --Original Message-- --
> > > > > From: Wolfi [mailto:projekt.x@(protected)]
> > > > > Sent: Sat 26/10/2002 12:56 p.m.
> > > > > To: XSI@(protected)
> > > > > Cc:
> > > > > Subject: Softbody and bones ?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Simnple question:
> > > > >
> > > > > Is the combination of softbody and bones possible, if yes, are
there
> > any
> > > > problems that can easily occor ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Wolfi
> > > > >
> > > > >
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