RE: Cluster center problem...

["Bradley Kachel" <acidboy21(at)hotmail.com>]

I came arcoss this issue also when having weighted clusters on an enveloped 
character.

You can get around it (partly) by parenting the null to the object it's 
weighted to...or was it the other way around. Either way though you are 
limited to using only one weighted cluster center.

I asked around for ages about this problem on xsibase, Jordi actually got 
back to me on it and explain the whole thing in detail. He said he might 
mention the problem to the Soft guys in the hope that it might be fixed in 
the future.

Here's hoping ver 4 has resolved the issue.

Cheers,
Brad K.


> From: "Pierre Duranleau" <pierrd(at)Softimage.COM>
> Reply-To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Subject: RE: Cluster center problem...
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 14:03:32 -0400
>
> Simply nest all the objects under a common Null or Implicit obj (including 
> the cluster center nulls), and Xform the Null parent while in branch 
> selection mode.
>
> Pierre Duranleau
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
> Of Oz Adi
> Posted At: 4 mai 2004 12:31
> Posted To: xsi
> Conversation: Cluster center problem...
> Subject: Re: Cluster center problem...
>
>
> try puting a model node ontop of it, and translate it..
> I am almost sure it should work :)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikael Nordenberg" <mikaeln(at)speech.kth.se>
> To: "XSI maillista" <xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5:23 PM
> Subject: Cluster center problem...
>
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm having some difficulties with cluster center deformations.
> >
> > I apply several cluster center deformations to an object, each
> > having it's own weight map connected to "amplitude".
> >
> > The problem comes when I need to transform my object
> > (for example moving it to another position).
> > The mesh then becomes completely deformed.
> > If I select my object and move it, all vertices that
> > don't belong to any cluster center deformer moves,
> > and the other don't move at all.
> > If I branch select my object (moving all cluster centers too)
> > all vertices moves, but according to the weights,
> > resulting in a completely deformed object.
> >
> > Is there a simple solution to this problem?
> >
> > /Mikael
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